FOMC Rate Decision: Will They Or Won’t They? “Will they or won’t they?” In ordinary circumstances, when such a question is asked on the day of an FOMC policy announcement, it refers to whether or not the Fed will adjust policy rates. Of course, the past three years have been an...
The state of the economy in two or three years is highly uncertain, and I wouldn't want to focus too much on the exact timing of a potential rate increase that far into the future. So that's how I would think about the SEP. 未来两三年的经济前景不确定性很大,现在没必要太早考虑加息的...
SEP只是大家预测的集合而已,这份SEP忠于我们刚刚调整的框架。 The state of the economy in two or three years is highly uncertain, and I wouldn't want to focus too much on the exact timing of a potential rate increase that far into the future. So that's how I would think about the SEP. ...
rates in the United States. After receiving recommendations from one or more of the regional Federal Reserve Banks, the Board makes a decision on discount rate modifications. The FOMC makes decisions on open market activities, such as central bank money levels and the federal funds market rate. ...
New documents released last week by the Federal Reserve shed important new light on one of the most consequential and underdiscussed moments of recent American history: the decision to hold interest rates flat on Sept. 16, 2008. At the time, the meeting at which the decision was made was ov...
Through textual analysis of transcripts of FOMC meetings, can we identify the primary concerns that cause the Federal Reserve to change the target federal funds rate? Can we do this by quantifying the content of the meeting? By answering these questions, we can take a closer look at our tradi...
As I said on WolfStreet comment boards back then, the Fed’s QT plans were well developed and announced in advance so everybody was comfortable with them… but NOT the Fed’s interest rate increases which nobody understood why they were doing them, ...
Gold prices dip to $2,575 as investors await the FOMC decision, while silver surges to $30.85 driven by industrial demand and Fed rate cut expectations.
U.S. CPI release today which provides the final key input ahead of Wednesday's FOMC decision (see our full preview of the CPI releasehere). The proximity to that data release limited activity in Asia, with Chinese & HK COVID-related headline flow failing to entice traders into a more act...
However things play out across the pond in the coming weeks, the Brexit discussion and ECB decision were always going to be the appetizer for the Fed back here in the U.S. next week. Our own FOMC is expected to announce the fourth interest rate hike for 2018 on Dec. 19. Fed Funds ...