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Donald Trump seems ready to do anything to get lower interest rates. The Fed might offer a cut in September; however, be wary of anyone’s certainty past then.
Wall Street on Friday notched its best day since late May, sparked by Federal Reserve interest rate cut expectations. Fed chair Jerome Powell at the Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium did not fully commit to cutting rates but did note that the downside risks to the labor market were increasing and that the "baseline outlook and the shifting
Fed Chair Jerome Powell walks with Kazuo Ueda, Christine Lagarde and Andrew Bailey during a break at the annual Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium outside Jackson Lake Lodge on Friday, Aug. 22. | Amber Baesler/AP Photo
Trump ratcheted up his pressure campaign this week, calling on Fed Governor Lisa Cook to resign after a Trump administration official alleged that she had committed mortgage fraud. Cook rebuked the push for her to quit, saying she has “no intention of being bullied to step down from my position because of some questions raised in a tweet.”
The central bank retired a previous strategy and on Friday unveiled a new approach that updates how inflation and employment are balanced.
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FOMC opted to leave its target range unchanged at 4.25%–4.50%, fresh details from the July meeting shed light on why policymakers are growing uneasy.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Friday announced an updated operating framework more oriented toward traditional efforts of promoting price stability, supplanting what had been a troubled effort that biased central bank policy toward its job mandate over its inflation target.