Take Five: The Fed and the rest

With President Donald Trump's trade policies heightening fears of a U.S. recession, expectations of a Fed rate cut have dramatically increased in the past month. Money market pricing became even more aggressive after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell threw open the door to a cut, promising on June 4 the Fed would act "as appropriate" to address risks from the trade dispute. It was the second sudden shift in the Fed's tone, after January when it abandoned its bias toward steady tightening.