Fed Being on Hold Is Bolstering Markets, Schwab's Sonders Says
"Cutting rates here isn't really the elixir" for markets, Charles Schwab Chief Investment Strategist Liz Ann Sonders says on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)
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