Fed’s Powell to Double Down on ‘No Rush to Cut’ Message

 

• Set pieces include Fed testimony, China congress, UK budget
• ECB, Bank of Canada may keep interest rates unchanged

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is expected to double down on his message that there’s no rush to cut interest rates, especially after fresh inflation data showed that price pressures persist.

Powell is headed to Capitol Hill, where he’ll deliver his semiannual monetary policy testimony to a House committee on Wednesday and a Senate panel on Thursday. The US central bank chief and nearly all of his colleagues have said in recent weeks that they can afford to be patient in deciding when to cut rates given underlying strength in the US economy.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-02/fed-rates-latest-powell-is-about-to-double-down-on-no-rush-to-cut