By 2025, the Fed Funds target rate could drop to 3.25% – 3.5%. With such clear visibility for rate cuts, the outlook for consumers and investors looks positive. As long as the Fed isn't behind the curve, as it was in September 2007 when it cut, we could see continued economic growt...
Fed officials' median projection for the appropriate level of the federal funds rate will be 4.6 percent at the end of this year, 3.9 percent at the end of 2025, and 3.1 percent at the end of 2026 - still above the Fed's long-term inflation goal. ...
Federal Reserve officials will likely reduce their benchmark interest rate later this year, Chair Jerome Powell said, despite recent reports showing that the U.S. economy is still strong and that U.S. inflation picked up in January and February.
central bank on Wednesday kicked off an anticipated series of interest rate cuts with a larger-than-usual half-percentage-point reduction that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said was meant to show policymakers' commitment to sustaining a low unemployment rate now that inflation has ease...
Fed officials would likely wait for the rubber to meet the road before changing their game plan in response to the tariffs and tax cuts that Trump promised on the campaign trail. Yet,estimates from Moody’s Analyticshave projected that inflation could rise to at least 3% next year if Trump ...
After biding its time, the Fed kicked off its monetary easing cycle with a strong start out of the rate cut gates. While investors may harbour concerns the Fed is getting ahead of itself, we highlight why we’re encouraged by the Fed’s proactive move. ...
showed the median policymaker expectation was for the rate to decline further to the 4.25%-4.50% range by the end of this year, to the 3.25%-3.50% range by the end of 2025, and for policy easing to end in 2026 with the rate around the longer-run estimate...
Turning to policy expectations, the manager noted that the market-implied policy rate path shifted down materially. At the time of the September meeting, the modal path for the federal funds rate implied by options prices was consistent with about 100 basis points of cuts through ...
“We expect some additional easing in 2026 but have raised our terminal rate forecast to 3.625% from 3.125%,” he said. If Republicans retain control of the House of Representatives and the Senate, the fiscal outlook will likely deteriorate, Seif said. Strain said it may be “the bond mar...
that we saw utilities and REITs do poorly is because the prospect of tax cuts causing the yield on the 10-year note to rise as investors worry that there be that much more debt that the government would have to contend with. So higher yielding assets now have even greater competition from...