{"id":3363,"date":"2025-09-17T22:45:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T22:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/economics\/2025\/09\/17\/fomc-decision-a-risk-management-cut\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T19:30:11","slug":"fomc-decision-a-risk-management-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/economics\/us-analysis\/us-data-flashes\/fomc-decision-a-risk-management-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"FOMC Decision: A risk management cut"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"wp-block-rbc-section-block  pos-rel\" style=\"border-radius:0px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-rbc-section-inner-block  section-inner\" style=\"border-radius:0x\">\n<p>As was widely expected, the FOMC went ahead with a 25 basis-point cut in today\u2019s meeting. But this meeting wasn\u2019t about a cut (or two). It felt more like a reset of expectations for what the Fed sees ahead and how they will navigate this ongoing uncertainty surrounding their dual mandate. Powell expressed this as a reset of risk management for the Fed following notable downward revisions to payroll data seen over the past few months that painted a much weaker picture of the labor market. This aligns with our view that the Fed will sympathize with weakness in the labor market over the still-above-target inflation\u2026for now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-how-much-is-25bps-going-to-impact-the-u-s-economy\"><strong>How much is 25bps going to impact the U.S. economy?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>We don\u2019t expect today\u2019s rate cut to have a meaningful impact on the U.S. economy. That\u2019s in part because the Fed simply met market expectations, which have already priced in today\u2019s cut and four more. For lower market-rates, the Fed will have to ease beyond current expectations. We also continue to emphasize that the challenges facing the U.S. economy are not as interest rate sensitive as they have been in past cycles: monetary policy can take some pressure off the economy but labor shortages, trade shocks and global geopolitical risks will persist regardless of Fed policy. Indeed, we continue to see fiscal policy as being an increasingly important driver, especially relative to monetary policy, of this cycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That said, for now, this cut (and any additional cuts) might help the low- and middle-income households facing mounting debt costs and with it,&nbsp;ease some of the divergence in economic circumstances between that group and high-income Americans (although equity market gains off of Fed easing further add wealth support to the upper-shape of his \u201cK-shaped\u201d economy). But longer-terms headwinds will persist, and it remains uncertain which side of the mandate will become a more serious issue for the Fed. As Powell noted <em>\u201cWe&#8217;ve seen much more challenging economic times but from a policy standpoint, the stand point of what we&#8217;re trying to accomplish, it&#8217;s challenging to know what to do. There are, as I mentioned earlier, there are no risk free paths now.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-for-now-we-know-what-side-of-stagflation-lite-the-fed-is-biased-towards\"><strong>For now, we know what side of \u201cStagflation\u201d Lite the Fed is biased towards<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>At the heart of the Fed\u2019s challenge: stagflationary dynamics pull the central banks\u2019 mandate of full employment and price stability in opposite directions. Powell framed the Fed\u2019s cut in terms of a shift in terms of relative risks to their mandate:<em> \u201clook at the revised job creation numbers for May, June, July and August&#8230; So, what that means is that the risks which, the risks were clearly tilted toward inflation, I would say they&#8217;re moving toward equality.\u201d From our perspective, it\u2019s certainly clear that job creation has slowed. But it\u2019s also worth continuing to emphasize that <\/em>the unemployment rate remains historically low at 4.3%, and the rest of the economy has remained mostly resilient \u2013 notably the consumer continues to spend despite headwinds and GDP growth remains positive, albeit slightly below trend. &nbsp;Meanwhile, inflation has been running above its 2% target for over four years and there are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/thought-leadership\/economics\/featured-insights\/us-inflation-outlook-a-squeeze-higher-in-second-half-of-2025\/\" data-dig-id=\"LP-U.S.Analysis-DataFlashes-US-3363-997890ed\" data-dig-category=\"LP-U.S.Analysis-DataFlashes-US\" data-dig-action=\"link click\" data-dig-label=\"clear upside risks\" class=\"rbc-link-format\">clear upside risks<\/a> heading into year-end for prices. The Fed, however, is triaging nascent weakness in the labor market over the still-above-target inflation. That may be a simple takeaway, but it\u2019s a powerful one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-data-now-is-giving-them-the-ability-to-cut-we-expect-the-path-to-further-cuts-will-be-harder-ahead\"><strong>The data now is giving them the ability to cut; we expect the path to further cuts will be harder ahead<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>We expect the biggest challenge going forward will be inflation and the uncertainty surrounding the pass-through of tariffs to consumers. Even before accounting for the impacts of tariffs, we expect to see inflation accelerating into year-end off the back of (i) goods prices rising (ii) services prices remaining sticky viz a viz wages and (iii) a floor under housing prices. Before the next meeting, we expect the September CPI data will continue to show early signs of tariff pressures building, but we likely will not see material passthrough until we get closer to the December meeting, at which point, we expect core CPI to have reached 3.4%. We think the Fed&#8217;s preferred measure (core PCE) will be telling the same story. That\u2019s going to make a full-blown easing cycle more difficult but not impossible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We saw a large dispersion in the 2026 dot plot \u2013 with significant uncertainty surrounding timing and magnitude of tariff passthrough to prices and the extent to which this weighs on growth. And while the weaker labor market data is currently giving the FOMC an opening to cut, we expect that justification will become more difficult in the months ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/economics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/09\/8b2b329b-a60e-496a-800c-0a785c4030cf.png?quality=80\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19730\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/economics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/09\/3e846f7e-8f3d-45db-b837-000fcb47f22c.png?quality=80\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19731\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/economics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/09\/c6df4da3-7727-41a6-9a24-60f7d35fd5aa.png?quality=80\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19733\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>About the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Mike Reid<\/strong>&nbsp;is a Senior U.S. Economist at RBC. 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