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Keep Your Eye on the Labor Market

September 19, 2024 | Jessica Noviskis, CFA, Portfolio Strategist, OCIO Services

The Fed turned the page and began lowering interest rates with an outsized 50 bp cut at its September FOMC meeting. While Chairman Powell described the risks to achieving the Fed’s dual mandate goals of maximum employment and stable prices as balanced, the market’s reaction to Powell’s press conference seemed to reflect anxieties that the labor market is now the chief concern and the Fed’s larger rate cut was perhaps a result of not only foresight but fear.

This newsletter puts recent labor market data into historical context as the Fed considers the pace of additional rate cuts in the coming months.

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Jessica Noviskis, CFA
Portfolio Strategist, OCIO Services

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