The U.S. economy is slowing but it still has some momentum, former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin said on Thursday. The U.S. Federal Reserve is doing about the right thing, Rubin told the Bund Summit in Shanghai, adding that former President Donald Trump poses multiple risks to the economy.
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(Bloomberg) -- US interest rates will settle in a range of between 3% and 4% after reductions by the Federal Reserve, according to Oaktree Capital Management LP’s Howard Marks.Most Read from BloombergHow Air Conditioning Took Over the American OfficeHong Kong’s Arts Hub Turns to Selling Land to Stay AfloatThe Outsized Cost of Expanding US Roads“The Fed will back off from the emergency rate of five and a quarter, five and a half and get down into the threes,” Marks, the co-chairman and co-founder
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The Federal Reserve needs to cut interest rates to keep the labor market healthy, but it is now down to incoming economic data to determine by how much, San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly said on Wednesday. "As inflation falls, we've got a real rate of interest that's rising into a slowing economy; that's a basic recipe for over-tightening," Daly told Reuters in an interview. Labor market health, she said, has to be "sustained and protected, and we have to be very mindful that if policy is overly tight, you might get additional slowing in the labor market, and to my mind, that would be unwelcome."
Recent U.S. dollar weakness will stall in the coming three months despite financial market traders ramping up bets for Federal Reserve interest rate cuts, according to a majority of foreign exchange strategists surveyed by Reuters. After surging about 5% against a basket of major currencies by midyear, the greenback lost almost all its gains as interest rate futures started pricing in about 100 basis points of Fed easing this year, nearly double June's expectations. That was driven in part by July labor market data showing signs of a slowdown, bolstered by reassurance from Fed chair Jerome Powell in his latest speech at Jackson Hole hinting rate cuts were coming.
Both stock and bond prices have risen this year.
