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Powell faces partisan potholes as Fed nears soft landing

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is trying to give the U.S. economy a rare soft landing on a partisan runway. Central banks seem likely to avoid recession and achieve remarkable feats of economic policymaking. The Fed last month signaled an end to its historic flurry of interest rate hikes that have helped keep inflation in […]

Americans’ inflation expectations drop to lowest level in 3 years, NY Fed survey shows

Kenny Porcari, chief market strategist at Slatestone Wealth, says Americans are rethinking what CPI reporting means in terms of “making money.” Americans are becoming more optimistic about the outlook for high inflation, according to a major New York Fed survey released Monday. The median consumer expectation is inflation rate The New York Fed's consumer expectations […]

An Election Year Fed Cut Could Court Political Catastrophe

M2 also increases Money supply is increasing again. of dramatic increase in money supply, was one of the wake-up calls to alert those paying attention to rising inflation, as measured by M2. The decline in M2 was also an important signal that inflation would moderate this year. M2 is rising now. It appears to have […]

Minutes Suggest Fed Is Not Rushing Toward Rate Cuts

Federal Reserve policymakers agreed last month that they were likely to end interest rate hikes, but were cautious about their next actions, the central bank said on Wednesday. This was revealed in the minutes of the December meeting. The minutes indicate that Fed officials expect the economy to continue progressing in a direction that will […]

Fed ‘likely’ done with rate hikes, concerned with ‘uncertainty’: minutes

Members of the Fed's key committees predicted a rate cut in 2024, but noted “an unusually high level of uncertainty” in considering next steps. According to the new minutes Contents of the December meeting announced Thursday. The committee voted to keep interest rates at the highest level in more than 20 years after its final […]

Fed meeting minutes indicate interest rate cuts could be coming in 2024

UBS Private Wealth Management financial advisors Sarah Ponchek and Lou Basenise discuss how rising interest rates and inflation are impacting the market on Morning with Maria. Fed officials said at their December policy meeting that interest rates are likely to peak on the back of recent declines in inflation, and that a rate cut could […]