Federal Reserve "dot plot" of interest rate expectationsFederal ReserveWhat will the Federal Reserve do with interest rates now that they’ve cut once this year? Will more cuts come or will they hang tight with current interest rates? Fed chair Jerome Powell said, in his post-meeting press conference, that the Fed was not on a fixed course but would watch the data as they emerge. However, we cannot ignore politics: President Trump clearly wants to see lower interest rates.The Fed began interest rate cuts in ...

LOGIN SUBSCRIBE | FastCo Works advertisement BY Associated Press Listen to this ArticleMore info 0:00 / 0:00 President Donald Trump's appointee to the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors said Monday that the central bank's key interest rate should be much lower than its current 4.1% level, staking out a position far different than his colleagues. IBM Texas A&M University Miran said that fewer immigrants should free up more housing and lower rental costs, reducing inflationary pressures. And tariff revenu ...

The price of Bitcoin (^BTCUSD) on Monday fell more than -2% to a 1.5-week low, driven by long liquidation pressures. According to data from Coinglass, more than 407,000 traders liquidated positions over the past twenty-four hours.Fed comments today were on the hawkish side and negative for stocks. St. Louis Fed President Alberto Musalem said he sees limited room for additional Fed interest rate cuts amid elevated inflation and believes rates are now "between modestly restrictive and neutral." Also, Atlanta ...

By Davide Barbuscia NEW YORK (Reuters) -Top U.S. asset manager Vanguard is bullish on corporate bonds despite high valuations, and while it expects tariffs will continue to be a risk for the U.S. economic and inflation outlook, those headwinds could be offset by further Federal Reserve interest rate cuts. Investment-grade credit spreads - or the premium over U.S. Treasuries paid by high-rated companies to issue bonds in the U.S. market - declined to 74 basis points last week, their lowest since 1998, a ...

It's time for the big picture. Let's welcome in the team from Charles Schwab. Very pleased to say we've got Kathy Jones, chief fixed income strategist, Schwab Center for Financial Research, and Nathan Peterson, director of derivatives analysis, Schwab Center for Financial Research.Very good morning to you both. Thank you so much for joining me this Monday. Kathy, let's start with you.Obviously, a bit of a consequential week as far as what these Fed speakers are going to say about what happened in that meeti ...

St. Louis Fed President Alberto Musalem. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President Alberto Musalem said he supported last week’s interest-rate reduction as a way to take out insurance against a weakening labor market, but sees limited room for more cuts amid elevated inflation. Musalem said interest rates are now “between modestly restrictive and neutral.” He said he would support further reductions if the labor market worsens further, but emphasized the importance of keeping long-run inflation expecta ...

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX) (SPY) today is down -0.18%, the Dow Jones Industrials Index ($DOWI) (DIA) is down -0.50%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX) (QQQ) is down -0.09%.  December E-mini S&P futures (ESZ25) are down -0.15%, and December E-mini Nasdaq futures (NQZ25) are down -0.04%. Stock indexes are lower today as they consolidate last week's rally that pushed the S&P 500, the Dow Jones Industrials, and the Nasdaq 100 to new record highs.  Stocks rallied last week on the view that a weakened US labor mar ...

At a time when stocks are yet again roaring to all-time highs on the back of big tech companies, investors should be “responsibly bullish,” according to Tony Pasquariello, head of hedge fund coverage at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. History is very favorable to cases where the Federal Reserve has cut interest rates into an accelerating economy with stocks around record highs, he said. The primary trend for equities remains higher, Pasquariello wrote in a note to clients. Most Read from Bloomberg “So, own wh ...

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This could be one of several cuts in the coming year.When inflation reached its highest levels in decades in 2022, the Federal Reserve began tackling the issue by raising interest rates. At its peak, the federal funds interest rate reached 5.5%, its highest level since 2001. On Sept. 17, the Fed cut the interest rate by 0.25 percentage points to a target of 4% to 4.25%.The rate cut didn't come as a surprise to most people, and there are thoughts that the Fed may cut rates once or twice again this year, per ...