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Scott Bessent questions whether Powell should cut rates by 50 bps in September

Scott Bessent questions whether Powell should cut rates by 50 bps in September

Investors are pricing in a more than 96% chance of the Fed cutting the base rate in September, following a cooler than expected inflation report for July, released yesterday. But this isn’t the only pressure Jerome Powell and the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) are under: Analysts and politicians are also getting their orders in for how much of a …

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