All eyes on Fed chief Powell if he can pull off high-wire act of balancing growth and inflation
US Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell used his appearance at Jackson Hole last Friday (Aug 26) to shut the door on hopes for a “pivot” in central bank policy.
He caught bullish stock-market traders’ horns in the door, causing one of the biggest routs on broad indexes this year. Strategists say the bear market could be back with a vengeance as investors hunker down for a long winter of sky-high fuel prices and an aggressive central bank.
In the weeks leading up to the central-banking confab, the speculation on stock and bond markets was that the Fed would use the occasion to acknowledge a lessening of inflationary pressures and a moderation in economic growth, setting the table for a pivot in rate policy.
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