Investors are betting the Federal Reserve will resume interest-rate cuts in September, nine months after its last reduction in December 2024. Such a long pause could be particularly bullish for equities,

Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell signaled a possible interest rate cut in the months to come, sending stocks sharply higher.

Now that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has signaled that the central bank could soon cut its key interest rate, he faces a new challenge: how to do it without seeming to cave to the White