Fed Likely to Hold Rates Steady Longer, With Cuts Pushed to Year-End

“While the Fed typically looks through oil shocks, we’ll be lucky to get even one rate cut this year,” Rick Gardner, chief investment officer at RGA Investments, wrote in a recent analyst note. “And if it does come, it would likely be towards the end of the year when there is a new Fed Chair and when there is more data to assess on the inflation and jobs front

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