PREVIEW: FED: RATES: From a longer conversation with colleague Elizabeth Peek of The Hill and Fox News re the choices for Jerome Powell on the timing and number of rate reductions before the Election, following what is regarded as a disappointing Core inf
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 13 February 2024
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| 0:29.9 | This is John Bachelor from a conversation with Elizabeth Peek of the Hill, Fox News and Fox Business |
| 0:36.2 | about Drum Powell and his challenge to when to deliver the three cuts promised by the Board of Governors at 2023 end with a disappointing |
| 0:47.4 | or unexpected inflation number printed Wall Street reacting negatively for the moment. Looking for four cuts |
| 0:57.2 | as early as May, Liz speculates, anticipates, reasons that Jay Powell will need to do whatever cutting he's going to do before |
| 1:06.8 | July. After that, it would be perceived as decidedly partisan. Here's Liz Peak to explain what the inflation's |
| 1:16.1 | number printed in these last hours means for the reduction in interest rates |
| 1:22.0 | ahead. |
| 1:24.0 | This unexpected. |
| 1:25.0 | You know, I am kind of a conundrum, right? |
| 1:28.3 | Because now Wall Street got up to expecting six or seven cuts. They weren't listening to Jay Powell. They just |
| 1:36.2 | refused to believe that he wasn't going to be aggressively cutting interest |
| 1:40.4 | rates. There has been nothing in the data that's come out in the last month or so that would lead |
| 1:47.1 | him to take a more dovish position. |
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