‼️Today’s FED Meeting Notes ‼️
⚪️Powell: I believe best thing to do for jobs is promote expansion
Yields hit Session Highs
⚪️Powell: Not possible to predict appropriate path for policy
⚪️Powell: FED to be guided by incoming data, evolving outlook
⚪️Powell: Both mandate sides call for move away from accommodation
⚪️Powell: doesn’t rule out raising rates at every FOMC meeting
⚪️Powell: Quite a bit of room to raise rates without hurting jobs
⚪️ Powell: FOMC principles to guide balance sheet decisions.
Yields extend climb, 2 year rises to YTD High
⚪️ Powell: Balance sheets is a Relatively new thing for US Markets
Stocks Hit Lows as Powell Speaks
⚪️ Powell: can’t say how much in size, composition, pace of balance sheet
⚪️ Powell: FOMC is of mind to raise rates at March meeting
Yields Hit Session Highs
⚪️ Powell: expect relief on supply side to be slower than hoped
⚪️ Powell: process of building up, shrinking balance sheet complicated
⚪️Powell: Will discuss balance sheet in March, at least 1 FOMC Higher
⚪️ Powell: yet to have the important discussions on balance sheet
⚪️Powell: inflation risks are still to the upside in my view
⚪️Powell:Risk is that high inflation will be prolonged
Treasury Yields Rise Across the Curve
⚪️Powell:what we need is another long expansion
⚪️Powell: return to expansion will require price stability
⚪️Powell: Covid can continue to evolve, risks can slow growth
US Stocks turn Negative
⚪️Powell: Don’t have information on Kaplan trades
⚪️Powell: inflation situation ‘slightly worse’ than Dec Meeting
⚪️Powell: inclined to raise my PCE forecast by a few tenths
⚪️Powell: FOMC range on inflation ‘has been moving to the right’
⚪️Powell: If inflation deteriorates further, policy will address
⚪️Powell: Will get relief on supply side eventually
⚪️Powell: Supply side relief is taking longer, raises inflation risk
⚪️Powell: Haven’t Made Decisions on Increments of Rate Hikes
⚪️Powell: there is pool of people who could return to the work force
⚪️Powell: unemployment is least tight measure of labor market
⚪️Powell: some people prone to suffer more from inflation
⚪️Powell: won’t say supply chain issues to be worked out by year’s-end
⚪️Powell: Semiconductor issue to last more than 2023
⚪️ Powell: We’re positioned to make policy changes if needed
⚪️ Powell: We are aware this is a very different expansion
⚪️ Powell: I want to keep price expectations well anchored at 2%
⚪️ Powell: Labor market is going to be strong for some time
⚪️Powell: I haven’t made decisions on size of interest rate moves
⚪️Powell: significant threat on labor market is high inflation
US 2-Year Yield Highest Since Feb
⚪️Powell: Too soon to say whether there was too much accommodation
⚪️Powell: Congress responded remarkably with the Cares Act
⚪️Powell: we are able to stave off collapse of financial system
⚪️Powell: We do monitor slope of the yield curve
⚪️Powell: U.S. long term sovereign debt is important
⚪️Powell: We will move steadily away from accommodation this year
⚪️Powell: Will write down in March next assessment, will evolve
⚪️Powell: Will talk about balance sheet runoff over next few meetings
Source: Bloomberg TV
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