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Fed Decision – A Minority Report
The analogy sort of fits; and what put me in mind of it was the news this week that the FBI has commenced a project to create a hi-tech facial recognition database. We of course, are concerned about a different … Continue reading
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Tagged Bonds, central bank, dollar, Economic Forecast, Economic Policy, economics, federal reserve, foreign exchange, forex, macroeconomics, markets, monetary policy, sovereign debt, The City, The Square Mile
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What Will The Fed Do? – Predictions from The Mile [and beyond]
There’s half an hour to go before the FOMC policy announcement, which will be followed by ‘The Ben Bernanke Show’ from 1815 GMT. You can Watch the Federal Reserve press conference with chairman Bernanke here: http://www.ustream.tv/embed/4944768 Live video for mobile … Continue reading
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What’s Worrying Bernanke?
Fed Chairman Bernanke gave a curious and worrying signal in his appearance yesterday before the Joint Economic Committee of Congress. He said, in the Q&A session that followed his testimony, that the recovery was ‘close to faltering.’ This subtly contradicted … Continue reading
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Why More From Operation [Oliver] Twist May Not Be Enough
http://youtu.be/sZrgxHvNNUc The problem is, ‘more’ has been given, and yet ‘more’ still, and it has not proved to be enough, for markets or the real economy. What you will not find this afternoon, is an economist or anyone attentive and … Continue reading
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Echos from the Hole
Quick expectation points from 3 economists at large investment banks whom we expect to be attending the Jackson Hole, Wyoming Symposium: “We suspect that the Fed is likely to outline a range of potential policy actions that may include the … Continue reading
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The Great SNB / NY Fed USD Swap Mystery
The Swiss National Bank has a USD swaps facility with The Federal Reserve Bank of New York.On behalf of a Swiss investment bank following a request, the SNB effectively applied for $200M-worth of dollars on Aug. 10 and the amount … Continue reading
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Tagged CHF, dollar, federal reserve, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, finance, foreign exchange, forex, macroeconomics, markets, NY, SNB, swiss franc, Swiss National Bank, USD
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#FOMC news won’t push the plunger on any volatility bombs anytime soon. The main new thing to focus on may be on the fact that inflation isn’t behaving. The Fed may need to re-cast what it means by ‘inflation’ so … Continue reading
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Tagged bernanke, central bank, Economic Policy, economics, EUR, fed, federal reserve, forex, JPY, macroeconomics, monetary policy, USD
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Timecheck On the #USD party coming up With the reinvigorated ‘risk rally’ remaining dependent on the perennially weak dollar and with the ‘virtuous’ circle of Federal Reserve ease keeping the greenback underwater and hence fuelling the risk rally [see what … Continue reading
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Tagged dollar index, economics, Euro zone, fed, federal reserve, forex, QE, QE2, QEII
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What The Fed will most likely have said After Bernanke’s Spoken Remarkably, there has never been a live post-policy press conference with a Federal Reserve chairman, before the one slated for 1415 EST/1815 GMT. This will clearly ascribe a degree … Continue reading
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Tagged bernanke, derivatives, economics, fed, Fed Funds Futures, federal reserve, FOMC, forex, interest rates, monetary policy, Rates, stocks
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