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...A top Federal Reserve official has said inflation could “see-saw” if policymakers cut rates too soon, warning that the descent towards the central bank’s 2 per cent goal was likely to slow in the months...
...Almost nobody thought the fashionable question in the northern hemisphere spring would be whether the Federal Reserve would soon have to raise rates again. But that is where we are....
...Ten of the Federal Reserve’s 12 rate-setting voters have managed at least 20 public appearances between them in the past fortnight....
...Monetary policy: Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta president Raphael Bostic, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City president Jeffrey Schmid and Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco president Mary Daly speak...
...Jay Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve, likes to say: “It will likely be appropriate to begin dialling back policy restraint at some point this year.”...
...Bostic is a voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee....
...Top Federal Reserve officials have tried to temper market speculation about imminent interest rate cuts, warning that the US central bank needed to see more progress on inflation before considering lowering...
...More and more market participants and pundits are betting that stalling disinflation might stop the Federal Reserve from cutting rates at all in 2024....
...Federal Reserve The Federal Reserve is probably in the best position, ahead of its rates decision on January 31, because inflation is moderating without an economic downturn....
...Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell said on Thursday that the US central bank was “not far” from having the confidence to start lowering borrowing costs....
...Investors are further reducing their bets on interest rate cuts by the US Federal Reserve this year, as strong economic data boosts conviction that the central bank will need to keep borrowing costs higher...
...The Federal Reserve will be forced to hold interest rates at a high level for longer than markets and central bankers anticipate, according to academic economists polled by the Financial Times....
...Goolsbee nor Logan has a vote on the FOMC, Atlanta Fed president Raphael Bostic does and has consistently warned that the central bank may struggle to cut more than one time this year....
...That compares with the six or more cuts expected back in January and the three that the more conservative Federal Reserve had projected....
...Wednesday’s unexpectedly dovish shift by Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell added to the optimistic mood among investors who had already been buoyed by strong corporate earnings and the series of softer economic...
...On Thursday the IMF said Asian central banks should reach policy decisions based on domestic inflation, rather than making them “overly dependent on anticipated moves by the Federal Reserve”....
...Central banks including the Federal Reserve and European Central Bank will be influenced by an elusive and controversial concept: the so-called neutral rate of interest — the borrowing rate that keeps economies...
...Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta President Raphael Bostic will appear at a conference on household finances....
...Federal Reserve officials agreed in September that the US central bank should “proceed carefully” on interest rate decisions, while acknowledging that monetary policy should remain restrictive for some time...
...The yen fell 0.7 per cent beyond ¥154 per dollar for the first time since 1990, as traders slightly scaled back their bets on rapid rate cuts from the Federal Reserve, strengthening the dollar....
...US stocks were mixed on Friday afternoon after comments from Federal Reserve officials that suggested markets might have overestimated how quickly and aggressively the central bank is prepared to cut interest...
...My main analysis today will look at how the Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, Bank of England and Bank of Japan responded to changed economic facts....
...Big investors are selling US Treasuries and buying European government bonds, betting that cooler inflation in Europe will allow its central bank to start cutting interest rates sooner than the Federal Reserve...
...A top official at the Federal Reserve has warned that financial markets have jumped “a little bit ahead” by pencilling in early interest rate cuts next year, in the latest attempt by the US central bank...
...Fedspeak: Lorie Logan, the president of Dallas’s Federal Reserve branch, will be in Frankfurt to deliver a keynote address at a European Central Bank conference on money markets....
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