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Fed is ‘disconnected’ from reality, must cut rates 5 times next year, portfolio manager says

The Federal Reserve needs to cut interest rates at least five times next year to avoid tipping the U.S. economy…

Fed Chair Powell calls talk of cutting rates ‘premature’ and says more hikes could happen

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Friday pushed back on market expectations for aggressive interest rate cuts ahead, calling it…

Wells Fargo unveils 2024 target, warns of ‘really, really sloppy’ first half for stocks

Wells Fargo Securities is officially out with its 2024 stock market forecast. Chris Harvey, the firm’s head of equity strategy,…

The market thinks the Fed is going to start cutting rates aggressively. Investors could be in for a letdown

Markets seem to have taken this week’s positive economic data as the all-clear signal for the Federal Reserve to start…

Fed’s Mary Daly says it’s ‘too early to declare victory’ on inflation

Tighter monetary policy is helping bring down the pace of inflation but not to a level where policymakers should feel…

Powell says Fed is ‘not confident’ it has done enough to bring inflation down

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Thursday that he and his fellow policymakers are encouraged by the slowing pace of…

Fed’s Goolsbee says ‘golden path’ of a huge drop in inflation without a recession is still possible

Chicago Federal Reserve President Austan Goolsbee said Tuesday a soft landing is still on the table as the central bank seeks…

Bad news for the economy is good news for the stock market … as long as it doesn’t get too bad

Friday’s market reaction to the jobs report comes down to a simple premise: bad news is good news, as long…

Here’s what to watch in Friday’s big October jobs report

Apologies if you’ve heard this one before, but the jobs market is slowing down. No, really. Aside from the long-standing…