S8 Ep180: Wall Street Bets on Rate Cuts Despite Mixed Economic Signals: Colleague Elizabeth Peek discusses the near certainty of a Federal Reserve rate cut, noting Wall Street's optimism despite steady inflation and mixed employment signals, highlighting strong hol
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 10 December 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World. |
| 0:08.5 | Here's John Batchelor. |
| 0:11.8 | This is CBS I on the world. |
| 0:14.3 | I'm John Batchel. |
| 0:15.5 | I welcome Elizabeth Peek, my colleague. |
| 0:17.4 | She writes a column for The Hill, |
| 0:19.3 | column for Fox News, much on Fox business, |
| 0:22.0 | to comment on the meeting of the moment. |
| 0:24.7 | The Federal Reserve Board of Governors meeting in Washington over two days, and Mr. Powell, |
| 0:30.1 | the chairman, will make a remark at the close of the second day, indicating whether or not |
| 0:36.0 | Wall Street is vindicated in its almost overwhelming |
| 0:39.3 | decision that we need another rate cut before the end of the year. The cost of money is still |
| 0:45.2 | too high to move some of the frozen real estate these last years. There's a very good evening |
| 0:50.9 | to you. As I recall, the Wall Street has this little percentage of Fed hikes or Fed cuts or Fed does nothing. |
| 1:00.3 | And it's been a moving story for some time bouncing up and down. |
| 1:04.3 | Now it's nearing unanimity. |
| 1:06.5 | Is that a good thing that Wall Street is moving along with the betting lines to say it's going to be a rate cut? |
| 1:14.1 | Good evening to you, Liz. |
| 1:15.3 | Well, good evening. |
| 1:16.8 | You know, yes, Wall Street is now placing 95 to 100% odds on a rate cut being announced. |
| 1:24.7 | And it has bounced up and down over the last several months, |
| 1:29.0 | depending on a lot of things, including what the labor market looked like, what |
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