As the Federal Reserve remains devoted to balancing its dual mandate, could central bank officials end up cutting interest rates in 2026 to help ease inflation pressures brought on by last year’s tariffs and the more recent energy shocks?

Yahoo Finance Senior Markets Reporter Ines Ferré, Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company CIO Brent Schutte, and Mahoney Asset Management CEO Ken Mahoney comes on Opening Bid to weigh in on the odds that the Fed could ease rates as it stays committed to its 2% inflation target.