Source: Wall Street Journal
“Stocks and bonds are rising on bets that the Federal Reserve has ended its nearly four-year campaign of interest-rate increases, worrying investors who believe the central bank could upend those expectations later this year….Some believe the Fed’s next move could be to cut the benchmark short-term rate, something it hasn’t done since December 2008, when the global financial crisis forced the central bank to slash rates to near zero. The shift is unsettling some investors who believe that much of this year’s rebound across stocks and bonds has been fueled by bets that the Fed won’t raise rates again in the foreseeable future….’China is probably going to get worse before it gets better, and the U.S. will feel that slowdown,’ said Andrea Cicione, head of macro strategy at TS Lombard, who believes the Fed is likely to lower rates by the end of the year.”
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