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US Federal Reserve
News and Analysis of Events and Decisions Made at the US Federal Reserve (the US Fed)
The Dollar has firmed after a key member of the U.S. Federal Reserve said recent U.S. inflation data prints have disappointed, further cooling market expectations for imminent interest rate cuts.
Steve Englander, an economist at Standard Chartered, suggests that Fed Chair Powell may be willing to accept dissents in order to facilitate timely interest rate cuts at the Federal Reserve.
Ian Shepherdson, Chief Economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, says if you are only looking at GDP and jobless claims today, you are missing the big picture.
After brushing aside a hotter-than-expected CPI report last week, investors betting on an imminent pivot by the Fed were emboldened on Friday from a very soft set of producer prices.
The Dollar rebounded ahead of the weekend after a member of the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee said his colleagues must be prepared to raise interest rates again if required.
The Dollar has softened against Pound Sterling, the Euro and other major currencies after the Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged and condoned market expectations for several interest rate cuts in 2024.
Independent economic data aggregator Truflation says U.S. core inflation is becoming "entrenched" amidst a strong labour market and investors should not rule out interest rate hikes.
GBPUSD breached 1.27 for the first time since September, but Pound Sterling is left looking technically overbought at the time of writing on Wednesday, suggesting it's time for cool heads to prevail.
The Dollar rose broadly after the head of the U.S. central bank sparked renewed expectations for further interest rate hikes as he expressed concern that inflation would remain too high over the coming months.
The Dollar was softer across the board after the Federal Reserve maintained interest rates at existing levels and signalled little appetite to raise interest rates again.
The Dollar was sold after the Federal Reserve Chair said U.S. financial conditions and tightened considerably and that it might have a bearing on future decisions regarding interest rates.
Pound Sterling will remain under pressure against the U.S. Dollar for some time say analysts following the Federal Reserve's policy update and guidance that suggests a first interest rate cut in 2024 will come later than previously expected.
The Dollar was broadly weaker in the wake of the Federal Reserve's July decision to raise interest rates by 25 basis points and signal that any further rate hikes would be entirely dependent on the nature of incoming data.
GBPUSD remains subject to a bullish technical outlook according to a new analysis from City Index, the retail trading institution, in a call that offers some context to the recent pullback and consolidation.
The U.S. Dollar rebounded with a vengeance over the course of the midweek session, taking value from the Pound, Euro and all other G10 peers, and setting itself up for a strong finish to what has been a mixed first half of 2023.
Most U.S. Dollar exchange rates slipped lower in the penultimate session of the week after the Federal Reserve (Fed) raised interest rates and broadened its options in relation to future policy decisions but this and multiple other factors mean that analyst and economist views on the outlook are more nuanced than market prices might imply.