The two words from Jerome Powell that rocked the financial markets
Stocks cratered, the dollar hit a more than two-year high and bond yields ripped higher after Fed Chairman Jerome Powell suggested that policymakers were not embarking on a new cycle of rate cutting, after it trimmed the fed funds rate by a quarter point Wednesday.
Markets have been on tenterhooks, once expecting three rate hikes this year, and then an easy Fed policy stance, even as the economy…
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