Article: Experts optimistic about path of economy

BOCA RATON, Fla. If economists were weathermen, a panel here would have predicted clear skies everywhere but in the nation's farm belt for the foreseeable future.

Cooling interest rates, a hot stock market, low inflation and an improved balance of trade all were in the forecasts delivered by a panel of economists at the Futures Industry Association convention last week.

Raymond Worseck, manager of economic research with A.G. Edwards & Sons in St. Louis, said he believes the Federal Reserve Board will hold the line on short-term interest rates, while long-term rates will continue to fall. An inverted yield curve, in which short-term rates are higher than long-term rates, is possible, he ...

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