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Wall Street is wrong: Former PIMCO chief economist Paul McCulley predicts rate hikes will end next month

Wall Street is wrong about the Federal Reserve’s interest rate path, according to former PIMCO chief economist Paul McCulley. Barring a surprise jump in inflation, he believes mounting economic pressures will convince the Fed to stop hiking interest rates next month. “It would be a pause and then a pivot [later this year],” McCulley told…

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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: WW International, CarMax, Mohawk, Moderna and more

Pipettes are seen at the Moderna Therapeutics Inc. lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., on Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017. Moderna this week started testing Adam Glanzman | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. WW International – Shares of the WeightWatchers parent surged 48%. Goldman Sachs upgraded the diet company…

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Banks in ‘more precarious situation’ creating risks for global growth, IMF chief economist warns

Interest rate rises have increased banks’ vulnerabilities — and their response presents a significant risk to global growth, the International Monetary Fund’s chief economist warned Tuesday. “We are concerned about what we have seen in the banking sector, particularly in the U.S. but maybe also in other countries, might do to growth in 2023,” Pierre-Olivier…