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KAORU KONDO At the margin they reinforced our growing sense that Fed tightening might stop before the federal fu...
ED MCKELVEY There were many years where the Fed Funds rate was as low as 1 percent and interest rates on savings...
LAURA BRUCE There's probably not enough indication that the Fed is ready to end (rate increases) to help the sto...
BENJAMIN PACE There is no operating manual that says what a neutral fed funds rate is, but the Fed knows that it's...
MARK VITNER What can the Fed do about WorldCom? This is not an interest rate problem. This is not something they...
DIANE SWONK It's extremely bad and this is bearish for the U.S. dollar. This will definitely shift expectations ...
KATHY LIEN It's extremely bad and this is bearish for the U.S. dollar, ... This will definitely shift expectati...
KATHY LIEN This is a very weak number and well below what everyone expected. It's not the kind of report the Fe...
STUART HOFFMAN [The economic recovery] sure looks to be here, but once [Fed officials] recognize that fact, rates, ...
JOEL NAROFF Parry's comments hint that the Fed still views the neutral level of the federal-funds rate to be app...
TONY CRESCENZI I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES It's a neutral to a decent number. I don't think this number adds to the argument that the Fed is st...
RICHARD FRANULOVICH More rate cuts may not be forthcoming, but the Fed is also not likely to start raising rates as quic...
ANTHONY CHAN The Fed is keeping an eye on core inflation because they were concerned about prices spilling over f...
GARY SCHLOSSBERG Simply because the Fed is maintaining an accommodative monetary policy position doesn't mean they ke...
MIKE RYAN Every new Fed chair always raises interest rates at the first meeting. It's an ego thing. Beyond tha...
DAN WARD There is nothing at this point to suggest that Fed officials will pause.
CHRIS RUPKEY I think the Fed is going to raise interest rates over the rest of this year. I think it will go up a...
FRANKLIN RAINES Today's inflation figures will reinforce the belief that the Fed only has one or two more interest-r...
PAUL ASHWORTH Those who expect further rate hikes can note that the real Fed Funds rate has yet to reach at least ...
ASHRAF LAIDI In January I placed the likelihood of a Federal Reserve Rate hike in May at less than 10 percent. I ...
ERNIE GOSS We think the Fed will continue cutting rates, although less aggressively. We are expecting another [...
BRUCE STEINBERG Our own forecast continues to be that a 5% peak for the fed funds target will be reached in the seco...
JOSH SHAPIRO At present there is a probability of just under 70 percent of the Fed raising interest rates to 5.0 ...
GAVIN FRIEND The things that helped support the dollar over the last 18 months or so, such as the Fed interest ra...
BRIAN ROSE Fed officials' comments point to the risk of faster inflation. We expect three or four more rate hik...
JUN KITAZAWA Long-term U.S. interest rates have risen as the market has started to price in the likelihood that t...
MASAMICHI KOIKE There's been dollar weakness as people have scaled back rate expectations. The market has got the im...
ARMIN MEKELBURG The market is speculating that the Fed may keep going. The interest rate in Canada right now lags be...
STEVE BUTLER It looks like we're finally beginning to see signs of a sustained slowdown, particularly in the inte...
DAVID KASLOW There?s never been a decline in the stock market in the 12 weeks prior to the end of a series of Fed...
JEFFREY KLEINTOP Recent economic indicators show a lackluster economic climate. And that led to the surprise 50-basis...
FRANK NOTHAFT
The Fed has got to become a more democratic institution that is responsive to the needs of the middl... BERNIE SANDERS
The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY We won't see big moves today in anticipation of the FOMC statement. The risk is out there that the F...
DAVID MANN The minutes didn't change the outlook for the interest rate moves priced into the market. The Fed is...
MICHAEL DARDA The market has somewhat anticipated a half-point rate increase next week, so if they can see signs t...
PETER CHANDLER We think the Fed will keep going to 5 percent by May.
JUNYA TANASE The residual impact from the Fed is definitely positive for the dollar. The Fed message is clearly a...
BORIS SCHLOSSBERG The residual impact from the Fed is definitely positive for the dollar. The Fed message is clearly a...
BORIS SCHLOSSBERG He's telling you the Fed's probably got more room to continue to hike, but inflation is not going to...
JAMES CARON The market is starting to talk about 4.75 percent and the risk of the Fed perhaps moving to five and...
ADARSH SINHA It is going to be a Fed week. The market is 100 percent in sync with a quarter of a percentage point...
ENRIQUE ALVAREZ As the market now feels that any interest rate hikes in the US will come to an end with the Federal ...
KAZUYUKI KATO The current fed fund rate of 4.50 percent seems to be serving as a floor for the 10-year yield.
HIDEHIKO MAEJIMA The large-cap stocks tend to be the ones that are most interest rate sensitive. With the changes at ...
BILL SICKLES The Chinese probably concluded they have far too much exposure to the dollar, and that the dollar ha...
PARESH UPADHYAYA You get the impression traders are putting an awful lot of weight on the Fed Chairman stating there ...
DON KOWALCHIK Interest-rate support for the Australian dollar will lessen quite substantially as the year progress...
NICK BENNENBROEK A lot of the gains are due to the earnings story. I think the market can deal with one or two more i...
BARRY HYMAN The question is: Will we get to a 4.25 percent fed funds rate in December?. If we do, then two-year ...
ERIC HILLER The front end of the curve tried to rally a little bit and there was a trade down in the belly of th...
DOMINIC KONSTAM Sentiment is building that the Fed may pause for a while after raising rates to 5 percent next month...
HIDEHIKO MAEJIMA The Fed is going to finish at about 5 percent, or certainly pause at 5 percent.
RICHARD GRACE
There was a monster in me that had to be fed by success. There is a monster in us all that has to be... CHLOE THURLOW The key number for the Fed was actually the unemployment rate and it went down and has been declinin...
KURT KARL We've seen some gyrations in expectations due to the whipsaw that we've seen in the economic data. W...
GLENN HABERBUSH No one should interpret the remarks as being a prelude for the Federal Reserve raising the Fed funds...
WAYNE ANGELL There are shifting expectations on whether the Fed will pause or not after its meeting next week. Si...
CRAIG CHAN With people convinced the Fed will go again in March, fed funds will be up at 4.75 percent. So why b...
FRANK HSU Few people thought that he would be that explicit. We're getting closer to the end of the Fed intere...
FREDERIC DICKSON I'm U.S. dollar bullish over the next three months, largely because the Fed will go to 4.75 percent ...
CAMERON BAGRIE In the Greenspan days, if he said that we're done, we'd be at 5% odds of fed funds hike in June by n...
JAMES BIANCO The market is increasingly seeing a risk that the Fed pauses in its rate cycle -- not only that but ...
ADAM COLE Movements in the unemployment rate will tell Fed officials whether growth is absorbing unused capaci...
ED MCKELVEY I think the Fed still has no other choice but still to raise rates. I know that there's some rumors ...
MARC GABELLI My impression is that the market is correctly anticipating that the Fed is close to being finished w...
JASON TRENNERT There seems to be a growing perception that (Fed Chairman Alan) Greenspan is engineering what has hi...
CLARK YINGST I expect the market to open higher after Wall Street's gains, and it will mainly be led by property ...
FRANCIS LUN For the Fed, continuing 25-basis-point rate hikes seem to be the best bet.
ELISABETH DENISON
If Fed Funds were expected to rise in the future, the curve would be positive with intermediate and ... BILL GROSS The Federal Reserve has been going through a tightening cycle. Whenever the Fed tightens, whatever f...
HARVEY ROSENBLUM We now believe that the first Fed rate hike will not come until December, and we continue to worry t...
JOE ABATE The reaction in the market has a lot to do with the perception that Katrina is a reason for the Fed ...
JANET ENGELS The short-term interest-rate level at 4.25 on fed funds provides mortgage rates which definitely won...
KIT JUCKES The economic data points to the Fed stopping (rate hikes) sooner rather than later, and that's encou...
JACK CAFFREY I think the folks at the Fed would like to raise the federal funds rate as high as they can short of...
ED YARDENI I think what people will see is that commentary from Fed officials will sound almost identical to th...
ETHAN HARRIS It was a respectable day. But after the (Fed) decision tomorrow, I think we can do better. I think t...
LARRY WACHTEL Perhaps it's a function of the fears that (Fed Chief Alan) Greenspan has already gone too far (with ...
CLARK YINGST The whole story this week was about maintaining and improving confidence ? from the Fed and from Wal...
BARRY HYMAN Our view is that we get above-trend growth and that will cause the Fed to raise rates to 5 percent.
AMITABH ARORA Core prices are at a little higher pace than the Fed is comfortable with, but they're certainly not ...
GINA MARTIN Given the data we've seen, one can't rule out a 50 basis point (one-half percentage point) hike. We'...
BILL MEEHAN The last few months of 2005 marked the first time since mid-2004 that the fixed-rate mortgage was ab...
VINCE MALTA Longer-term rates will not rise dramatically as long as the Fed keeps the short-term policy rate at ...
DAVID KOTOK Signs of financial stress still are present. The persistent interest rate increases by the Federal R...
JAMES CHESSEN I wouldn't be especially concerned about a major episode of financial distress resulting from the re...
JOHN LONSKI The Fed will welcome this report as it suggests that slower economic growth will be extended into th...
STEVEN WOOD
The whole financial structure of Wall Street seems to rise or fall on the mere fact that the Federal... WILL ROGERS We're coming to the end of the Fed interest-rate tightening cycle. That usually isn't a bad time to ...
FREDERIC DICKSON There are a lot of crosscurrents now, but falling yields might indicate that demand for credit is sl...
PAUL KASRIEL Yes, I think it's going to be a fantastic buy. I think we're going to pack the whole year's Super Bo...
ROBERT ROBBINS It gives the Federal Reserve more leeway to cut rates. But I don't believe that a BOJ rate cut means...
JOHN LONSKI It gives the Federal Reserve more leeway to cut rates, ... But I don't believe that a BOJ rate cut m...
JOHN LONSKI
We expect maybe 50 basis points of Fed fund increases between now and December. The market is pricin... LARRY JONES The November minutes were taken as a sign of an impending pause and I don't think the Fed wants to g...
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