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Fed Chair Jerome Powell Warned Investors About the Stock Market -- President Trump's Tariffs Make the Warning More Dire

The stock market faces significant challenges in the near term, including high valuations, a weakening economy, and dismal consumer sentiment. Read More

Big Changes Coming to the Fed—And Interest Rates—Next Year If This Frontrunner Gets Powell’s Job

The reported frontrunner to take over as Federal Reserve chair in May has a recent track record of advocating for the central bank lowering interest rates. Read More

Fed Chair Powell’s Allies Provide Opening for December Rate Cut

Allies of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell have laid the groundwork for him to push a rate cut through a divided committee at next month’s meeting even though it could draw multiple dissents. The ... Read More

Jerome Powell’s era of consensus at the Fed is over

Federal Reserve policymakers are split over whether they should continue cutting interest rates, ending the long stretch of consensus that has defined Chair Jerome Powell’s leadership of the central ... Read More

Fed Vice Chair Says Economic Trade-Offs Justify Lowering Rates Slowly

Philip Jefferson offered a case study in the central bank’s predicament Monday, acknowledging the risk of stubborn inflation and weaker employment conditions—dueling threats that call for opposing ... Read More

Fed Chair Jerome Powell Said the 6 Words Wall Street and Investors Are Thinking but Are Too Terrified to Accept

In late September, Fed Chair Powell delivered a speech in Rhode Island, where he was questioned about the variables the Fed's Board of Governors considers when making monetary policy decisions. In ... Read More

Takeaways: Fed Chair Powell says don’t count on a December rate cut

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday lowered interest rates for the second time this year in a continued bid to prevent unemployment from surging. But another rate cut at the next meeting in December “is ... Read More

Hassett at the Fed helm could pressure the dollar, investors say

Beneath the U.S. bond markets' composure around the prospect of White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett becoming the next Federal Reserve chair lies a niggling worry that his bias for interest rate ... Read More

Fed lowers rates, but Powell suggests move may be the last of 2025

WASHINGTON — A policy divide within the U.S. central bank and a lack of federal government data may put another interest rate cut out of reach this year, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said on ... Read More

Bessent reveals ‘good chance’ Trump will name Powell’s successor at Fed before Christmas

Bessent is nearing the end of selecting candidates to recommend to President Donald Trump to replace Powell, whose term expires in May. Read More

Fed Chair Powell Says December Interest Rate Cut Is ‘Far From’ Guaranteed

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