Sung Won Sohn, the chief economist at Wells Fargo & Company, said the combined data showed weakening demand and no inflation concerns, making further rate cuts both likely and feasible.
Dwyer says although brighter earnings expectations would heighten optimism, things won't improve until the Federal Reserve makes further rate cuts.
It also could be said that the report made further rate cuts likely, thus aiding the dollars fall, but with dollar weakness seven years old, and having occurred amidst rate cuts and rate hikes, it seems the direction of the Feds rate target is overrated as the cause.
Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, also hinted that the credit crisis could make further interest rate increases unnecessary — if the recent sharp increase in borrowing costs ended up hurting consumer demand.
Because of that bias, reports of a strong economy can seem bad, since they make further interest rate increases more likely, while reports of a slowing economy, as were stimulated by yesterday's employment news, can seem like good news.
But many economists expect the government to have to make further interest-rate adjustments in the coming year, particularly if rising raw-material prices revive concerns about inflation (the consumer-price index rose 3.9% in 2004, up from 1.2% in the previous year, but with signs of easing towards the year's end).The government's GDP figures, however, are not set in stone.
He could, however, make further progress on lowering the rate of tax on corporate profits, which is set to fall to 23% by 2014-15.
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It does so by buying mortgages from banks that issue them, allowing those banks to make further mortgages and keeping interest rates low.
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