Survey: Fed Won't Cut Interest Rates Until 2024 As It Tackles Inflation
Bankrate’s latest poll matched the Fed’s own outlook, with officials in September showing they don’t expect to cut rates until at least 2024.
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Bankrate’s latest poll matched the Fed’s own outlook, with officials in September showing they don’t expect to cut rates until at least 2024.
Those probabilities are still close to a coin flip, but they’re down from an average forecast of 59 percent just last quarter.
Most experts expect inflation to hit the Federal Reserve’s preferred 2 percent goal post by the end of 2025, Bankrate’s Economic Indicator poll shows.
Economists see employers adding roughly 44,000 new positions each month on average between now and September 2024, Bankrate’s latest poll found.
The Fed is watching the jobs market closely, especially wages, as a key inflation source left to bring down, and labor data led to a big market whipsaw.