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Markets are expected to closely watch for signals that the central bank’s thinking on future cuts is shifting, as its urgency to support growth is ebbing, they said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

"With employment falling slightly, unemployment rising, economic inactivity up and vacancies dropping again, optimism is ebbing slowly away."

From BBC • Oct. 24, 2023

This Friday’s jobs report for August will be closely watched for further confirmation that the tightness in the labor market is ebbing as interest rates remain relatively high.

From Reuters • Aug. 30, 2023

But that calm is ebbing as Barr plots her comeback.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2023

We are still fully under the influence of this gigantic movement and its real achievements will never leave us; and yet this realistic wave is ebbing to-day and a new period of idealism is rising.

From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo