After year-long bumpy ride, Fed appears to make soft landing

HOUSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - After a year-long struggle with bond markets, the Trump administration, and each other, Federal Reserve policymakers found their way to a compromise this week with a rate cut that even the White House said had put monetary policy in a much better place.The U.S. central bank's monetary policy had been too tight and hurt the economy, but "that huge obstacle to growth is now waning" after the rate cut announced on Wednesday, top White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow..