The main Wall Street indexes are looking to end 2023 on a high note as signs of slowing inflation boosted expectations that the U.S. central bank will soon ease its monetary policy. Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester, a voting member next year, said financial markets had got "a little bit ahead" of the central bank on when to expect interest rate cuts, as per a report. "There's still a dislocation between a seemingly dovish pivot that the market is expecting the Federal Reserve to take, and what economists are projecting," said Keith Buchanan, senior portfolio manager at GLOBALT Investments.