Fed’s Powell: Rate cuts are still underway | CNN Business

Washington CNN  — 

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Thursday that interest rates are still expected to decline further, but suggested they might not be that much lower over the next few months.

Powell said more rate cuts are likely underway because the economy’s current trends and dynamics are expected to remain in place, at least in the short run. That includes a slowing job market and cooling inflation, facilitated by rates that are still at restrictively high levels. Holding borrowing costs at their current elevated rate could push up unemployment.

“We are moving policy

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