Dour Fed, cheery market

by Aurelia Butler 20 March 2025, 19:00 199 Views

On Wednesday Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell announced that US interest rates would remain unchanged. But the monetary policy committee is clearly worried that tariffs might slow growth and increase inflation. Today on the show, Rob Armstrong, Katie Martin and Aiden Reiter try to figure out why markets weren’t worried by what they heard from the Fed. Also they go long Twitter (X… whatever) and short Tesla.

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Dour Fed, cheery market

February home resales jump much more than expected, despite higher mortgage rates

Accenture is DOGE’s first corporate casualty as shares dive on warning that contracts will be cut

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