Atlanta Federal Reserve President Raphael Bostic said he anticipates slower progress on inflation in coming months and as a result now sees the Fed cutting its benchmark interest rate only a quarter of a percentage point by the end of this year. With less progress on inflation and businesses expected to add the cost of coming tariffs to their prices, "the appropriate path for policy is also going to be pushed back," Bostic said in an interview on Bloomberg. Bostic had previously expected the Fed would cut rates twice this year, a view his colleagues largely maintained at their meeting last week when the median policymaker projection saw two quarter-point rate cuts in 2025.