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Fed’s Kashkari raises prospect of zero rate cuts — but Goldman says that would be ‘very surprising’
Goldman Sachs Chief Economist Jan Hatzius on Friday said that he still expects the Federal Reserve to implement three interest rate cuts this year, adding that he would be “very surprised” if the U.S. central bank ultimately decided no trims at all were necessary. His comments come shortly after Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari became the latest high-profile official to float the possibility of zero rate cuts before the year’s end, if inflation remained sticky. “If we continue to see inflation moving sideways, then that would make me question whether we need to do those rate cuts at all,” Kashkari ... (full story)