Eco Week Ahead
Fed Rate Decision Could Be the Prelude to a March Cut
- BOE, Riksbank and several global peers to set borrowing costs
- Euro zone GDP and inflation due; IMF will update outlook
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Federal Reserve policymakers may finally be right on the verge of cutting interest rates.
Going into this week’s two-day policy meeting, which wraps Wednesday afternoon in Washington, investors are assigning roughly even odds to the prospect that the US central bank will start lowering borrowing costs at its next decision in March.