MarketMinute | Agents Greet 2024 With Optimism
Minutes from the Fed's last meeting suggest the policy rate could remain higher "for some time" until inflation moves lower. Demand for workers fell to its lowest level in more than 2½ years in November, while hiring and layoffs both slowed. Manufacturing contracted in December. The pace of decline slowed amid a modest rebound in production and improvement in factory employment. As mortgage rates fell to end the year, refi apps were 15% higher than the same week a year ago....
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