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Fortune
Eleanor Pringle

Interest rate cut expectations just keep getting deeper as Powell's 'risk bias' changes

Chair of the Federal Reserve of the United States Jerome Powell (Credit: Bonnie Cash—Getty Images)

At the beginning of the month Wall Street was confident—but not convinced—that it would be getting its much-anticipated interest rate cut come September.

Fed Chairman Jerome Powell's Jackson Hole speech sealed the deal for many that a reduction is indeed imminent. The rate currently sits at 5.25%—a more than two-decade high.

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