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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Richard Partington Economics correspondent

Federal Reserve ‘poised to begin cutting rates as early as September’

Jerome Powell, chair of the US Federal Reserve
Jerome Powell, the chair of the US Federal Reserve, is expected to set out a downward path for interest rates at the bank’s annual meetings on Friday. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA

Kamala Harris’s hopes of victory in the looming US presidential election have been given a boost by mounting expectations that the US Federal Reserve will cut interest rates from as early as September.

As Democrats gather for the party’s national convention in Chicago starting on Monday, economists on Wall Street said the world’s most powerful central bank was poised to begin a cycle of interest rate cuts before the end of the year.

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