Scott Horsley
speaker
63 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard 5d ago
Scott Horsley’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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A the U.S.
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war with Iran has rekindled inflation, pushing oil and gasoline prices higher.
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The Congressional Budget Office warns the war is likely to keep putting upward pressure on prices into next year.
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Just today, Triple A said the price of diesel had jumped to another record high, six dollars thirty one cents a gallon.
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And Fed Chairman Kevin Walsh renewed his promise to get inflation under control when he spoke last month in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
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Now while higher interest rates won't automatically bring lower prices at the gas pump, raising rates is the VED's primary tool for fighting inflation and
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Forecaster Omer Sharif says if the Fed doesn't use that tool after Warsh's hawkish speech last month, the Fed risks losing credibility.
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Investors are definitely anticipating that the Fed will deliver on Warsh's hawkish comments this afternoon.
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Odds the market odds have a rate hike are north of ninety percent.
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The Fed is expected to raise its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point today, and then beyond today's meeting, we'll see what happens.
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The central bank has two more meetings on the calendar this year.
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It's possible the Fed could push rates higher, especially if inflation remains elevated.
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But Cherie suspects Warsh will temper any rate hike today with a cautious news conference, so investors don't walk away thinking that a
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additional rate hikes are necessarily baked in.
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In addition to the chairman's news conference, we're gonna get a series of forecasts this afternoon from the other members of the Fed's rate setting committee indicating where they think interest rates might be going.
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Back in June, the average Fed policymaker was projecting only one quarter point rate hike this year, followed by a rate cut next year.
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We'll see if those forecasts have changed now that we've had another burst of energy related price hikes.
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Well, they're not a roadmap and they're not a promise.
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They're really just kind of the series of best guesses of where the individual committee members think rates might be going based on their personal views of the economy.
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Obviously, wars and tariffs and other events can change those views and thus the outlook for interest rates.
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