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Powell signals that July rate cut a done deal

Chair Jerome Powell’s semi-annual testimony to Congress indicates that, despite the trade truce following the recent G20 meeting and the strength of employment growth in June, the Fed intends to push ahead with a rate cut at the FOMC meeting at the end of this month. We had previously anticipated that those positive developments would convince the Fed to delay that rate cut until September.

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