Jay Powell says Federal Reserve ‘not far’ from having confidence to cut interest rates

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The Federal Reserve is “not far” from having the confidence to start cutting interest rates, its chair Jay Powell has said, bolstering hopes that the central bank will lower borrowing costs in the coming months.

Powell told US senators on Thursday that the Federal Open Market Committee was “in the right place”…