Markets widely expect the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates for the fourth time this year at its December meeting. The question is what the central bank will do next year. Recent sticky inflation prints and evidence the US economy is growing at a solid pace have raised doubts that the Fed will bring down rates as quickly as it previously

The last two Fed meetings resulted in rate cuts. Short-term CD rates have continued to lower, but some long-term CD rates are rising back up again.

Powell just a week after the meeting said the economy was "not sending any signals that we need to be in a hurry to lower rates."