Sentences with phrase «fed policy meeting»

This week, Powell presided over a Fed policy meeting for the first time since becoming chairman.

For now, the markets are looking past the December Fed policy meeting for any changes, and have pushed their expectations to March or beyond for the start of any possible tapering.

This week, Powell presided over a Fed policy meeting for the first time since becoming chairman.

The Fed policy meeting ended with no change, as expected, while the central bank expressed confidence a recent rise in inflation to near target would be sustained, leaving it on track to raise borrowing costs in June.

As the Fed policy meeting threw up no surprises with rates left unchanged, the focus shifted back to simmering trade tensions...

We argued that before the ECB and Fed policy meetings that there was a good possibility the EUR / USD would break above 1.0660 and rally into the 1.0850 / 80 resistance area, before turning lower.

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In the Minutes from the Fed's January policy meeting, we noted that the Fed was clearly starting to worry about liquidity.

«As well, yesterday's FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) meeting was less dovish than expected as the Fed kept its policy forecasts unchanged despite clear deceleration in inflation and a couple of bad data points yesterday.»

Policy - makers moving toward «normalization» of lending facilities, according to minutes from the Fed's Dec. 16 - 17 meeting.

All eyes on the Fed today, as the Federal Open Market Committee concludes its two - day meeting with a policy statement and a press conference featuring Fed Chair Janet Yellen.

About half of the Fed's 17 policymakers factored a fiscal stimulus into their economic forecasts published in December, according to minutes from the Fed's December policy meeting.

Powell said individual Fed members will be crafting new projections at the central bank's meeting in March, which would be influenced by federal government's ambitious fiscal policies including tax cuts.

In a statement following the end of a two - day policy meeting, the Fed also said that «on a 12 - month basis is expected to run near the Committee's symmetric 2 percent objective over the medium term.»

Minutes of meetings from the Federal Open Market Committee and speeches by Fed officials suggest that the Federal Reserve has been itching to «normalize» policy for some time now.

The Fed ended its latest policy meeting by leaving its key short - term rate unchanged at 1.5 percent to 1.75 percent, the level it set in March after its sixth rate increase...

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. - Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester participates in panel «Coordinating Conventional and Unconventional Monetary Policies for Macroeconomic Stability» before the 2018 ASSA / American Economic Association Annual Meeting - 1730 GMT.

PHILADELPHIA - Cleveland Fed chief Loretta Mester participates in panel «Integrating Financial Stability with Monetary Policy» before the 2018 ASSA / American Economic Association Annual Meeting -1515 GMT.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 6 PHILADELPHIA, Pa. - Cleveland Fed chief Loretta Mester participates in panel «Integrating Financial Stability with Monetary Policy» before the 2018 ASSA / American Economic Association Annual Meeting -1515 GMT.

The minutes from the Fed's two - day policy - making meeting last month are scheduled for release Wednesday afternoon.

New York Fed President William Dudley said last week a rate hike would be possible at the Fed's next policy meeting in September.

The Fed had to push markets by specifically mentioning in its policy statement last October that it might raise rates at its «next meeting» in December.

The message in Wednesday's release of the minutes from the Fed's June policy meeting reiterated a dovish notice to the market, while spelling out the endgame this fall for its massive bond - buying program.

This week's Fed policy decision is due to be released at 2 p.m. EDT on Wednesday at the conclusion of a two - day meeting.

Yet as Bloomberg's Jeanna Smialek put it, «Fed officials swear by their data dependence, and the numbers look strikingly similar to when the policy - setting committee last met.»

The Fed has forecast three rate hikes in 2018, but economists expect that will be revised up when the central bank publishes its projections at the end of the March 20 - 21 policy meeting.

While policy doves like Rosengren currently hold sway over Chairman Ben Bernanke and the majority of Fed policymakers, minutes from last month's policy meeting suggest the quantitative easing program could draw to a close by year end, earlier than some economists had expected.

The markets are pricing in no change to Fed policy when the Federal Open Market Committee meets in May, but traders anticipate another hike at the June meeting, according to CME Group fed funds futurFed policy when the Federal Open Market Committee meets in May, but traders anticipate another hike at the June meeting, according to CME Group fed funds futurfed funds futures.

Federal Reserve officials go out of their way to assure financial markets that they could make a policy move at any meeting, not just the four of eight meetings per year that are accompanied by a press conference from the Fed chairman.

Fed officials are scheduled to convene on Tuesday and Wednesday for a regular policy meeting.

Minutes of the Fed's March 20 - 21 policy meeting published this month showed officials expected the annual PCE price indexes to accelerate in March partly because of «the arithmetic effect of the soft readings on inflation in early 2017 dropping out of the calculation.»

With regard to having three dissents at the Fed's latest meeting, Yellen said the policy statement does a good job of «reflecting what a majority of the Committee thinks is appropriate policy.»

«I think we'll get a better idea on monetary policy after the March Fed meeting.»

David Beckworth, who teaches economics at Texas State and writes on Fed policy at his Macro and Other Market Musings blog, points to the Federal Open Market Committee meeting that took place Sept. 16, 2008 — the day after the failure of Lehman Brothers and the day the Fed was preparing to make an $ 85 billion loan to AIG (AIG).

Traders fully expect the Fed's monetary - policy committee to raise benchmark borrowing costs by a quarter percentage point at a meeting that starts Tuesday and culminates Wednesday with Powell's first press conference as chairman.

The U.S. central bank's monetary - policy committee raised benchmark borrowing costs by a quarter percentage point to a range of 1.5 % to 1.75 %, in Jerome Powell's first meeting as Fed chairman.

The ALEC draft document for this week's Energy, Environment, and Agriculture Task Force Meeting encourages state policymakers to recognize the value the electric grid delivers to all and to update net metering policies to require everyone who uses the grid, such as distributed solar users who feed into it, to pay for it.

The Fed's monetary policy statement in July contained upbeat language that appeared to open the door to a rate hike as early as its next meeting in September.

That means clarity about the objectives of monetary policy, how the Fed plans to meet those objectives in light of the economic and financial market environment, and how it formulates its responses to unforeseen circumstances that lead to revisions to its economic forecast.

Mr. Lacker, a voting member of the policy committee this year, has indicated he is likely to dissent if the Fed does not raise rates at the September meeting.

In the policy statement the Fed issued after the January meeting, the central bank outlined its approach to raising rates, saying it «expects that economic conditions will evolve in a manner that will warrant further gradual increases in the federal funds rate.»

Certainly nobody that was let into the Fed's policy meetings.

The Fed concluded its two - day policy meeting with a commitment to purchase mortgaged - backed securities at a rate of $ 40 billion per month.

The FOMC's annoucement after their meeting on Wednesday affirmed the Fed's QE3 policy, offering no changes, while stating, «If the outlook for the labor market does not improve substantially, the Committee will continue its purchases of agency mortgage - backed securities, undertake additional asset purchases, and employ its other policy tools as appropriate until such improvement is achieved in a context of price stability.»

The Fed concluded its two - day policy meeting with a commitment to purchase mortgage - backed securities at a rate of $ 40 billion per month.

Stocks suffered their first substantial round of losses in weeks yesterday, as a negative reaction to the Fed's last policy meeting gave traders a good excuse to sell and lock in profits from the current uptrend.

Separately, the Bank of Japan (BoJ), which also will be meeting the same days as the Fed (Sept. 20 — 21), may be on the verge of abandoning its negative interest rate policy at some point — but likely not soon.

Minutes of the Fed's March 20 - 21 policy meeting published on April 11 showed officials expected the annual PCE price indexes to accelerate in March partly because of «the arithmetic effect of the soft readings on inflation in early 2017 dropping out of the calculation».

«It's not clear we can get substantial improvements in payrolls without some additional inflation risks,» he told his first regularly scheduled news conference after a Fed policy - setting meeting.

There are eight additional Fed bank presidents who attend the policy meetings, but do not vote this year.

The Fed said in a statement after its latest policy meeting that it expects «further gradual increases» in rates and says it's moving close to achieving its 2 percent target for annual inflation.