The only Federal Reserve official to dissent from the central bank’s aggressive half-point interest-rate cut earlier this week said she thought it would send the wrong message to markets that inflation was dead.

Wall Street rejoiced over this week’s interest rate cuts, but there’s another investor class that was just as enthusiastic: venture capitalists. The tech correction of the last couple of years has left many startup investors longing for the Federal Reserve’s bygone zero interest rate policy,

A Federal Reserve official predicted quarter point rate cuts if data looked ‘fine’. But he also set out a scenario for a pause — or faster reductions.