Fed to Slow 2019 Rate Hikes Amid Downside Risks, Poll Shows

“There’s still some upside potential, but there is a whole laundry list of factors” that will either slow the economy or threaten to slow it, said Scott Brown, chief economist at Raymond James in St. Petersburg, Florida.Investors see a 77 percent chance the Fed will move next week and are betting on less than one full quarter-point increase in 2019, according to pricing in interest rate futures.More than half the economists said risks, with respect to growth and inflation, were