Akane Otani

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WSJ Your Money Briefing · Q1: Stocks Up More Than 10% · 29 Mar 2019 podcast

So we'll have to wait to see how those dynamics play out.

Yeah, and it's interesting.

We've really seen this administration being quite vocal about the federal rates monetary policy, which is, of course, a shift from prior administrations.

But Kudlow is not exactly alone on this.

I mean, if you look in the futures market, investors are currently pricing in around a 0% chance of rates going higher this year.

And increasingly throughout the last couple of weeks, we've actually seen bets pile into

The notion that rates are going to go lower before the end of the year.

So it is a little bit unusual, the candor that he has, but not exactly an isolated opinion in the markets.

Yeah, it really affirms, I think, the notion that inflation is not about to race higher at the moment.

I mean, I think this is something that has perplexed investors and economists for quite some time now, the fact that we're seeing a very tight labor market and generally strong economic growth, generally positive consumer sentiment, business confidence growing.

And yet inflation has been quite muted.

And that's actually a positive for now, I think, for markets, because investors are largely interpreting that as one more reason why the Fed shouldn't accelerate its pace of rate increases.

But it does have a flip side.

I mean, low inflation has in the past sort of stoked fears of a slowdown in growth.

So it'll be one other thing worth keeping an eye out for.

That's right.

We saw Lyft close up 8.7% in its trading debut, and that was after the car-sharing service had actually priced at the top end of its range.

So overall, it's showing pretty strong signs of demand for IPOs this year.

Analysts currently believe that this could be one of the biggest years ever for IPOs.

So how Lyft does is of huge interest to investors because they're closely watching to see if other tech companies in the pipeline may also have strong debuts in the public market.

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