Fed officials show less confidence in rate hikes, strategist warns against Fed rate cut, Goldman recommends options for dividend stocks, Cramer sees AI driving tech reacceleration.

Minutes from the Federal Reserve's last meeting showed that officials were divided over where to go with interest rates, with some members seeing the need for more increases while others expected a slowdown in growth to remove the need to tighten further. The Fed appears now to be moving toward a more data-dependent approach in which myriad factors will determine if the rate-hiking cycle continues. Markets expect that the May rate hike will be the last of this cycle, and that the Fed could reduce rates by about a quarter percentage point before the end of the year, according to futures market pricing.