Brian Stewart, our director of news at Seeking Alpha, welcome back to Wall Street.

Roundup.

Good to be with you again.

Yeah, good to be here.

Welcome back to you too, Rina.

Appreciate it.

Please note as always that we are recording

this on Thursday afternoon, obviously before the Fed meeting, but I did just talk to Fed expert,

former insider, Danielle DiMartino Booth. So we'll be including an excerpt of my interview with Danielle, which you can catch in full

on our investing experts podcast and or on Seeking Alpha.

You can read along on Seeking Alpha or listen to the audio.

And we're going to include a quick clip of her take on today's meeting

and statements from Fed Chair Jerome Powell. Powell's a little bit too late to this. I've been

highly critical of him suggesting that, you know, in May, that in June, that in July, that the

Fed should have already been in an easing stance.

And I think a lot of investors were anticipating that he would push back on that notion.

And instead, he dove right in. And he said, you know, we thought that job growth had been

north of $150,000 a month. We learned that it was really

35,000 a month. And, you know, when he laid those actual numbers out, that was in more ways than any,

his way of communicating that they would have otherwise been in an easing stance. Had they known

how weak the job market was just a few months ago?

And again, I think that really surprised the markets and that they're celebrating that the

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