Good morning! It’s Daniel de Visé with your Daily Money, finally-caught-up-on-sleep, post-post-election edition.
One day after Donald Trump’s election victory, investors sent bond yields sharply higher. The “Trump trade” is likely to keep rates for home loans rising, Andrea Riquier reports, no matter how the Federal Reserve acts on interest rates this week. (More on the Fed soon.)
That means anyone looking to buy a home or lock in a lower refinance rate will have to seize any chance they get over the next few weeks before rates head higher for what could be a while.
The Federal Reserve is likely to lower interest rates again this week, Medora Lee reports, but the cut may be so small that consumers hardly feel it.
When the Fed concludes its policy meeting on Thursday, most economists expect the panel to trim its short-term benchmark fed funds rate by a quarter percentage point. It would be the Fed’s second consecutive rate cut, but smaller than the half-point cut in September that kicked off the rate-cutting cycle.
In a busy election week, will consumers even notice?
President-elect Trump’s plans for higher tariffs, lower taxes and more curbs on immigration are expected to reignite inflation, Paul Davidson reports. However, economic forecasters are divided on whether the policy moves would weaken or boost the U.S. economy.
Eventually, higher levies on imports and immigration constraints are likely to more than offset the benefits of lower taxes on consumer and business spending, ultimately weakening growth, economists say. But probably not to the point of a recession. Here's the full analysis.
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Daniel de Visé covers personal finance for USA Today.
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