Friday Briefing: A US recession was never really off the table 

Friday Briefing

Eve Maddock-Jones
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Back in May, when markets began to accept that fact that the Federal Reserve was on a different rates path to what they were expecting, investors were confronted with the fact that while the chances of zero rate cuts in 2024 were not high, the fact that it wasn’t zero anymore was significant.

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