What Does a Lousy August Jobs Report Have to Do with a September Fed Rate Cut?

No matter where you stand on the political spectrum, everybody seems to agree the August jobs report was nothing but bad news. On Friday, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics published the country’s ... Read More

Weak Jobs Report Signals Likely September Fed Rate Cut

Analysts expect the Fed to lower rates at its upcoming meeting after a weaker-than-expected August jobs report. Read More

BofA expects Fed to deliver two cuts this year after soft jobs report

BofA Global Research on Friday forecast the U.S. Federal Reserve to deliver two 25 basis point (bp) cuts, in September and December, after a soft jobs report. Read More

September Fed cut largely fully priced in after jobs report

Traders are now fully pricing in a rate cut in September after the latest labor report came in cooler than expected. Read More

Why the recent jobs report will add pressure on Fed to cut rates in September

The recent surprisingly poor jobs report and massive downward revisions to previous months’ data will increase pressure on the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates to give the economy a boost under ... Read More

It will take a doozy of a jobs report to derail investor expectations for a September rate cut

Fed-funds futures traders have priced in a 97.6% probability the Federal Reserve will cut its key interest rate by 25 basis points, or a quarter of a percentage point, from its current range of 4.25% ... Read More

Will the Fed Lower Rates in September? Experts Say Weak Jobs Report ‘Cements’ a Cut

Analysts expect the Fed to lower rates at its upcoming meeting after a weaker-than-expected August jobs report. Money; Getty Images ***Money is not a client of any investment adviser featured on this ... Read More

US Fed to Cut Rates in September and Once More This Year, Say Most Economists: Reuters Poll

BENGALURU (Reuters) -A Federal Reserve interest rate cut in September, the first this year, followed perhaps by another before year-end remains the base forecast for most economists polled by Reuters ... Read More

Only a really big jobs report might stop the Fed from cutting interest rates. Don’t count on it.

Perhaps the only thing that might stop the Federal Reserve from cutting interest rates in a few weeks would be a surprisingly strong U.S. jobs report. Just don’t count on it. Hiring has slowed sharply ... Read More