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Powell’s Jackson Hole signal on rates seen as good for one cut

Jonnelle Marte and Maria Eloisa Capurro / Bloomberg
Jonnelle Marte and Maria Eloisa Capurro / Bloomberg • 6 min read
Powell’s Jackson Hole signal on rates seen as good for one cut
Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank of England; Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank; Kazuo Ueda, governor of the Bank of Japan and Federal Chair Jerome Powell at the Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium / Photo: Bloomberg
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At a divided Federal Reserve, policymakers pushing for lower interest rates look close to getting their way after Chair Jerome Powell on Friday opened the door to a cut in September.

The debate over what happens after that is likely to begin even before the Federal Open Market Committee meets Sept 16-17 in Washington. And there’s no guarantee that more cuts will follow any time soon.

Some officials will want multiple cuts, a second group will only commit to one move and still others will object to any cuts at all, said Stephen Stanley, chief US economist at Santander US Capital Markets LLC.

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