Fed will hike once more in December before slowing growth and falling energy ease inflation – Natixis

(Kitco News) – The Federal Reserve will only need to deliver one more rate hike this cycle before a combination of falling oil prices, easing tariff impacts and slowing growth will lower inflationary pressures, according to Natixis.Economists Christopher Hodge and Selin Aker wrote in the wake of the Fed’s rate decision on Wednesday that  one of the dissenters in the FOMC’s 10-2 vote to hold was Lisa Cook, who registered her first dissent since taking office in 2022.