Lara Rhame Quotes

Market expectations have priced a rate cut in. When markets are pricing it in like that, the Fed can't afford to give a downside surprise in this environment.

- Lara Rhame

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The consumer is the last support here, and it's not getting any help. The savings rate plus the confidence plunge add up to enough reasons for the Fed to give consumers a psychological boost. - Lara Rhame

There's a growing effort within the Fed to look for other ways to add liquidity into markets and to sustain the interest-rate-led growth we've had... I think they are going to move to a bias to ease policy again, but I'd look for the ease somewhere else. It won't be a rate cut. - Lara Rhame

We've seen markets get ahead of themselves in bonds and in currencies as well... There are signs that markets have now gotten too optimistic about not only the size of the U.S. recovery, but the speed; our medium-term forecast is still very much of euro strength and dollar weakness. - Lara Rhame