Commercial real estate’s fascination with the Federal Reserve and its Federal Open Market Committee’s interest rate decisions is understandable. From the upward march of interest rates to their crest and down again to rate cuts, everyone wants to know when financing costs might change.
But there’s been growing uncertainty, like rising 10-year yields, some economists revising inflation predictions for Trump’s second term, warnings over the debt ceiling, and a rising special service rate.
Across business and the economy broadly, James Mackintosh at the Wall Street Journal wrote that investors are weighing the question of how the Fed might respond, including whether a U-turn could lead to rate increases. The question they posed was not of what the coming Trump administration might do, but how the Fed might respond to conditions, based on how the agency has responded in the past
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