Fed-Speak: Rate cuts coming [09-09-2024]

Fed is Expected to Raise Interest Rates Wednesday

The Fed is expected to raise interest rates Wednesday by a quarter point, and the pressure is on for Fed Chairman Jerome Powell to sound dovish — but not too dovish. Fed officials are also expected to revisit their fed funds rate forecasts and roll back some of the rate hikes expected in the next several years.

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As Oil Plunges, the Real OPEC Meeting Will Be at Next Week’s G20 – Money Market Guru

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For the oil market, it looks like the real OPEC meeting will come a week ahead of schedule.

The cartel is set to meet on Dec. 6 in Vienna, but days earlier the key decision makers are set to gather on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Buenos Aires in a meeting that may well decide the direction of oil prices in 2019.

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