Central Banks

Wall Street Economists See Compelling Case for Fed to Cut Now

  • ‘Why wait another seven weeks?’ Goldman Sachs’s Hatzius says
  • Fed officials remain sanguine despite higher unemployment rate
Fed Chair Jerome Powell talks about the latest inflation data at an event Monday in Washington.Source: Bloomberg
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A growing number of Wall Street economists are cautioning the Federal Reserve is waiting too long to reverse course after raising interest rates to a two-decade high.

Tame inflation data in each of the last three months, combined with slowing US economic growth and a rising unemployment rate, are leading to calls for the central bank to cut rates at its upcoming policy meeting two weeks from now.