Another shoe to drop?

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Another shoe to drop?

Current interest rates are an evident drag on US sectors like housing and business investment. But to ease up on those brakes, the Fed will want to await further clarity on two key fronts. On tariffs, if not overturned, this week’s court ruling likely eliminated the worst case scenario of extremely high and broad tariffs, thereby dampening the downside risks to growth, but would leave sectoral tariffs in place and options for others. And there could be another shoe to drop, from fiscal policy, that could still stand in the way of an easing this year.

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