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Mohamed El-Erian

Fed needs to cut interest rates sooner not later

The delay by the US central bank in easing monetary policy could jeopardise a soft economic landing.

“It doesn’t matter when the Federal Reserve starts cutting rates. What really matters is where they finish.” That is one view that is being heard around Wall Street.

At first glance, this advice serves as a timely caution for the many market participants currently obsessed with whether the Federal Reserve, reassured by the latest inflation data, will begin its rate-cutting cycle in September or wait longer, as several Fed officials suggested last week.

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Mohamed A. El-Erian, is president of Queens’ College at the University of Cambridge and a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

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