Progress on inflation and a clear slowdown in hiring likely will drive the Fed to some extent of policy easing, Daly said Monday.
San Francisco Federal Reserve President Mary Daly on Monday said she expects that interest rates will be cut later this year.
"How much that needs to be done and when it needs to take place, I think that's going to depend a lot on the incoming information," she said during a forum in Hawaii. Mary Daly, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, during the National Association of Business Economics economic policy conference in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, Feb. 16, 2024.San Francisco Federal Reserve President Mary Daly on Monday said she expects that interest rates will be cut later this year but declined to provide a timetable or the extent to which the central bank will ease.
"Policy adjustments will be necessary in the coming quarter. How much that needs to be done and when it needs to take place, I think that's going to depend a lot on the incoming information," she said during a forum in Hawaii. "But from my mind, we've now confirmed that the labor market is slowing and it's extremely important that we not let it slow so much that it turns itself into a downturn.
"We will do what it takes to ensure what we achieve both of our goals, price stability and full employment," she said. "We will make policy adjustments as the economy delivers the data and we know what is required."that the central bank's "restrictive" rates policy doesn't make sense if the economy isn't overheating, which he said it is not. If there are trouble signs with the economy, Goolsbee said the Fed will "fix it.
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