Powell says slowing labor market prompted rate cut, sees ‘challenging situation’ ahead

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Fed Chair Jerome Powell said that weakness in the labor market is outweighing concerns about stubborn inflation, leading to a decision to lower the central bank’s key interest rate last week.
“This policy stance, which I see as still modestly restrictive, leaves us well positioned to respond to potential economic developments,” he added in a speech delivered in Rhode Island.
Powell is presiding over a Fed that has come under intense criticism from the White House and is seeing an unusually wide dispersion in views among officials.

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