Fed Chief Powell says stock prices appear ‘fairly highly valued’
US Federal Reserve President Jerome Powell speaks at a press conference after the publication of the interest policy of the Federal Open Market Committee on Washington, DC, USA, on September 17, 2025.
Elizabeth Fondz | Reuters
Federal Reserve President Jerome Powell said on Tuesday that asset prices, a category of typically containing stocks and other risk tools, are high.
During a speech in Rhode Island, Providence asked the Central Bank leader how much his colleagues and colleagues emphasized the market prices and whether they had higher tolerances for higher values.
“We look at general financial conditions and ask ourselves whether our policies affect financial conditions.” Powell, Powell. He said. “But you are right, for example, with many measures, equity prices are very valuable.”
Until last week’s policy meetings, stocks and other assets were strongly gathered as the conviction that the federal open market committee would reduce the borrowing rate overnight. Since the decision to reduce points on Wednesday, the stocks continued to climb.
“The markets listen and follow us and predict that they think about where the rates are going. And so they pricing something, Pow Powell said in some of the conversation dealing with mortgage rates.
Although Powell notes the Supreme Self -Equity Values, it said that this is not “high risk of high financial stability.”
