Powell Bets, Recession Watch, Central Banks Take Stage: Eco Day

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Good morning Americas. Here’s the latest news and analysis from Bloomberg Economics to help get your day and week started:

• Chairman Jerome Powell’s frequent assurance that sustaining the U.S. economic expansion is the Federal Reserve’s “overarching’’ goal is opening the door to potentially aggressive interest-rate cuts
  • Meanwhile former Fed Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer predicted President Donald Trump won’t renominate Powell for another term as the U.S. central bank’s chairman if re-elected
• About to break records for the longest expansion, the U.S. economy sure looks like an asset for a president gearing up to seek re-election. Still, others are more concerned with spotting a recession
• It’s big week for central banks as the Bank of Japan and Fed and Bank of England all meet. A majority of economists now see the BOJ ramping up easing measures as its next policy move
• This week also sees the annual European Central Bank summer retreat -- Mario Draghi’s last as President -- and likely to be somewhat somber as policy makers weigh limp inflation and dark economic clouds ahead
• There’s reason to believe that Chinese policy makers do have the “tremendous room” for more easing that People’s Bank of China Governor Yi Gang cited earlier this month

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