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Powell: It's unlikely Fed will have confidence to cut in March

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Powell insists the Fed will move carefully on rate cuts, with probably fewer than the market expects

From cnbc.com

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell vowed in an interview aired Sunday that the central bank will proceed carefully with interest rate cuts this year and likely will move at a considerably slower pace than the market expects. In a wide-ranging interview with “60 Minutes” after last week’s Federal Open Market Committee meeting, Powell expressed confidence in the economy, promised he wouldn’t be swayed by this year’s presidential election, and said the pain he feared from rate hikes never really materialized. “With the economy strong like that, we feel like we can approach the question of when to begin to reduce ... (full story)

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