taper

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Further Fed rate cuts to help support the labor market, however, are going to depend on whether inflation is about to taper off.

From MarketWatch

The Fed said that it would start its balance-sheet expansion with $40 billion of securities purchases this month, with plans to taper the pace of the new buying sometime next year.

From The Wall Street Journal

Some of “the downside risk has tapered off in the large-cap tech names,” he said, but “bubble fears” remain in the wake of the market’s boom on artificial-intelligence enthusiasm.

From MarketWatch

The share of advancing stocks, or breadth, had started to taper off even before the S&P 500 hit its Oct.

From MarketWatch

Read: Retail sales tapered off before the shutdown.

From MarketWatch