Fed Speakers, Regional Banks In Focus After US Jobs Shocker

In the days ahead, markets will hear from a veritable procession of Fed speakers who, thanks to a robust NFP headline and an uncomfortably warm read on wage growth, will have an easier time pushing back against March rate-cut speculation. "We wouldn’t want to make much of any one month, but the strength of the labor market, if that continues, would lessen my worry that the job market side of our mandate is deteriorating,” Austan Goolsbee told The Wall Street Journal late last week. (He als