Prediction: The Trump Bull Market Will Soon End -- and the Federal Reserve Will Be the Surprise Culprit
Yahoo Finance·2026-02-22 11:26
Normally, the Federal Reserve is Wall Street's financial bedrock. It's America's foremost financial institution tasked with maximizing employment and stabilizing prices. It achieves these goals by adjusting the federal funds target rate -- the overnight lending rate between financial institutions -- and/or conducting open-market operations, such as buying or selling U.S. Treasury bonds. It's a straightforward task guided by copious amounts of economic data.Although the Trump bull market may appear infallibl ...