<strong>FOMC Apt to Raise Rates Again but Bank Failures Raise Doubt</strong>
– Once Predisposed Toward More Aggressive Moves, Fed Must Now Weigh Financial Risks By Steven K. Beckner (MaceNews) – The Federal Reserve finds itself in an awkward situation as it approaches its mid-March monetary policy meeting. Less than a week ago, it seemed, the Federal Reserve’s policy making Federal Open Market Committee was on the […]
Weekend US Bank Failure Anxiety Fades as Govt Deploys Massive Rescue
–Fed ‘To Take Additional Steps As Appropriate’ –‘All Depositors’ Now Protected –New Question of Rescue Episode’s Impact on Fed Rate Decisions By Denny Gulino WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – A wave of severe weekend anxiety about paychecks and savings that swept across America appeared to fade with the hastily assembled government rescue program as a new week […]
<strong>BOJ Keeps Easing Stance to Pursue Stable 2% Inflation Target After Nearly a Decade of Flooding Markets with Cash</strong>
–March Meeting Last Scheduled One for Governor Kuroda Before His 2nd 5-Year Term Ends on April 8 –Kuroda’s 2 Deputies Will Also Retire at End of Their 5-Year Terms on March 19 –Incoming Governor, Ex-BOJ Board Member Kazuo Ueda Has Told Diet Current Easing Stance ‘Appropriate’ By Max Sato (MaceNews) – The Bank of Japan […]
<strong>Bank of Canada Pauses in Tightening but Repeats It is Prepared to Raise Rates Further If Needed</strong>
–BOC: Will Continue Assessing Economic Developments, Effects of Cumulative Tightening –BOC: Labor Markets ‘Very Tight,’ Employment Growth ‘Surprisingly Strong’ –BOC Keeps View Inflation to Slow to 3% in Mid-2023 but Says Needs to Come Down Further By Max Sato (MaceNews) – The Bank of Canada on Wednesday left its policy interest rate — the target […]
<strong>Powell: Fed Prepared to Increase Pace of Rate Hikes If Inflation Doesn’t Moderate</strong>
– ‘Ultimate Level of Interest Rates Likely to be Higher Than Previously Anticipated’ – Fed Not Seeking ‘Enormous’ Unemployment Rise but Tight Labor Markets Must Soften By Steven K. Beckner (MaceNews) – Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell served notice Tuesday that the Fed will likely need to raise short-term interest rates higher than he and […]
FOMC Minutes Show a Few Participants Wanted a 50 BPS Hike
WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – The Federal Open Market Committee meeting that ended at the beginning of the month had wide – but not unanimous – agreement on a quarter-point rate hike with a “few” more impatient, wanting to get to the terminal rate sooner with a half-point increase, the minutes of the meeting showed Wednesday. That […]
<strong>Phil Fed’s Harker: Fed ‘Not Done Yet’ Raising Rates ‘But Likely Close’</strong>
– Should Keep Raising Funds Rate in 25 Bp Steps to Over 5%; Nor Sure How High – Will Get To Point in ‘23 When Rates ‘Restrictive Enough’ – FOMC Should ‘Proceed Cautiously’ Because Also Shrinking Balance Sheet – Sees Inflation Progress Despite CPI, But ‘Going to Take Time’ By Steven K. Beckner (MaceNews) – […]
<strong>Analysis: Japan PM Kishida Seeking Monetary Policy Balance Between Continuity and Gradual Shift from Abenomics</strong>
–Reports Say Kishida Picks Academic Kazuo Ueda to Succeed Kuroda By Max Sato (MaceNews) – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida appears to have picked an academic candidate with some policymaking experience to replace retiring Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda in a surprise choice that could prompt a gradual departure from the decade-old reflationary Abenomics […]
<strong>Fed Policymakers Point Toward Possibly Higher Rates Than Previously Thought</strong>
By Steven K. Beckner (MaceNews) – Federal Reserve policymakers expressed a determination Wednesday to keep raising interest rates to combat inflation – possibly higher than previously projected. New York Federal Reserve Bank President John Williams said that, for now, a 25 basis point pace of rate hikes is appropriate, and he said rate cuts could […]
<strong>Bank of Canada Governor Macklem Repeats Current Pause in Tightening ‘Conditional’ on Economy Moving Along Projection</strong>
–BOC Sees Upside and Downside Risks to Its Forecast as ‘Balanced’ –Macklem: ‘We Are More Concerned About Upside Risks’ –Macklem: Too Early to Talk about Cutting Rates (MaceNews) – Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem on Tuesday repeated his recent remarks that the bank’s pausing in its credit tightening is “conditional” that overheated domestic economic […]