Nomura has said that the U.S. Federal Reserve is no longer expected to cut interest rates at its December policy meeting, making it the first global brokerage to signal a pause in the central bank’s rate-cutting cycle in the wake of Donald Trump’s election win. Nomura now expects the Fed to deliver only two 25-basis-point (bp) rate reductions at its March and June meetings in 2025, leaving the brokerage’s Fed funds rate projection unchanged at 4.125% through next year. The
