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- The Federal Open Market Committee yesterday (Wednesday) left its benchmark Federal Funds rate at a range of 0% to 0.25%. “Industrial production, housing starts, and employment have continued to decline steeply, as consumers and businesses have cut back spending,” the FOMC said in statement. “Furthermore, global demand appears to be slowing significantly.” The Fed said that it continues to “purchase large quantities of agency debt and mortgage-backed securities,” and…
The Best and Worst a Dollar Will Buy
I am going to use this edition of Charts of the Week to accomplish a series of tasks that has gone undone for too long. Forthwith:
- To answer a brainless dolt called James West, whose name appears with some regularity on the otherwise respectable Kitco website. This “writer” [oh, if only he could string a few words together without obfuscating] produced this gem just a week ago:
“Right now, the dollar is looking strong because of the massive repatriation of U.S. dollars now underway as a result of global U.S. denominated asset de-leveraging. So it looks [the “writer’s” emphasis] like the dollar is strengthening. This…
22Oct2008 | Oxbury Research | Comments Off | ContinuedWaiting for the Fed’s Decision, Statement
Economists and investors wait with bated breath for the U.S. Federal Reserve to release the statement from the Federal Open Market Committee this afternoon (Wednesday) at 2:15 p.m. EDT.
While it is almost universally expected that the FOMC will vote to hold the Federal Funds rate steady at its current 2.0%, the language in the accompanying statement will be scrutinized for clues about the upcoming August and September meetings.
In a recent Bloomberg News survey, all 101 economists queried expect the Fed to pause on any further rate actions for the time being. Many believe there will be no movement in…
25Jun2008 | Money Morning | Comments Off | ContinuedFed Policymakers Look to Juggle Inflation, Stagnation
The U.S. Federal Reserve faces a tough challenge as it kicks off a two-day policymaking meeting tomorrow (Tuesday): It probably needs to start raising interest rates to prop up the U.S. dollar and offset a major escalation in inflationary pressures; but the economy needs low interest rates if it’s to maintain its anemic growth rate.
After one of the Fed’s most aggressive rate-cutting campaigns ever slashed short-term interest rates from 5.25% in mid-September to 2.0% now, experts now expect the central bank to reverse course. And this week’s two-day meeting of the policymaking Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) represents the first…
23Jun2008 | Money Morning | Comments Off | ContinuedDallas Fed President Lends Credibility to Money Morning’s Prediction That the Federal Reserve Will Soon be Boosting Interest Rates
Just one day after Money Morning predicted that the U.S. Federal Reserve would soon be forced to increase interest rates, Dallas Fed President Richard W. Fisher said he expected the central bank would raise interest rates should inflationary pressures start causing severe consumer pain.
“If inflationary developments and, more important, inflation expectations continue to worsen, I would expect a change of course in monetary policy to occur sooner rather than later, even in the face of an anemic” U.S. economy, Fisher said during a Wednesday speech in San Francisco.
In a financial commentary titled, “With Oil Speculators Blitzing, the Fed Needs to Call…
31May2008 | Money Morning | Comments Off | Continued
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