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Bloomberg Surveillance

Instant Reaction: Jay Powell on the Fed Decision

Bloomberg Surveillance

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3.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Bloomberg's Tom Keene, Jonathan Ferro and Lisa Abramowicz discuss remarks from Fed Chair Jay Powell following the Federal Reserve's latest policy decision on a special edition of Bloomberg Surveillance.

Treasuries extended losses after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said a December interest-rate cut was not set in stone, even after delivering a widely expected quarter-point reduction to prop up the labor market. The central bank reduced its benchmark lending rate to 3.75%-4% in its second straight cut — though two officials dissented.

“A further reduction in the policy rate at the December meeting is not a foregone conclusion, far from it,” Powell said in the opening comments of his press conference. In their post-meeting statement, Fed policymakers on Wednesday repeated their assessment that “job gains have slowed” and said “risks to employment rose in recent months.”

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Welcome to the program, Equities, recovering.

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There was a drop-off as soon as Chairman Powell started to speak.

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We're back to about negative 0.2% on the S&P. The bigger losses on the Russell, the small caps down by 0.8.

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