An interest rate cut from the Federal Reserve next week is seen as all but a certainty in markets, so investors will be focused on the US central bank’s economic forecasts.
Futures traders now assign a roughly 90 per cent chance of a quarter-point cut on Wednesday — the Fed’s third this year — following evidence of a slowing labour market and recent dovish comments from rate setters.
New York Fed president John Williams said in late November that borrowing costs could fall “in the near term” without jeopardising the Fed’s inflation goals.
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