Expect more stocks pain if markets keep betting on rate cuts, says the Fed Full Article <a rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/stock-market-crash-fed-interest-rate-cuts-december-meeting-minutes-2023-1" target="_blank">https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/stock-market-crash-fed-interest-rate-cuts-december-meeting-minutes-2023-1</a> Some Federal Reserve policymakers have signaled that financial markets could suffer if investors carry on expecting interest-rate cuts, according to minutes from the central bank&#039;s December meeting. But the Fed appears to have issued a veiled warning that investors piling into stocks right now would in itself be inflationary – which could then require the central bank to boost rates further at a later date. &quot;No participants anticipated that it would be appropriate to begin reducing the federal funds rate target in 2023,&quot; the minutes read.  &quot;A number of participants emphasized that it would be important to clearly communicate that a slowing in the pace of rate increases was not an indication of any weakening of the committee&#039;s resolve to achieve its price-stability goal or a judgment that inflation was already on a persistent downward path.&quot;