Masterful performance by Powell at a difficult time


FEDERAL Reserve (Fed) chair Jerome Powell managed to thread the needle.

After unwittingly igniting several rallies in stocks and bonds with his mixed messages on the path of interest rates earlier this year, Powell this time was able to capture the nuance needed to explain the increasingly fraught path of monetary policy from here.

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