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Federal Reserve rate cuts beckon

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2024
... currently expects. "We forecast more than three percentage points of cuts by the end of 2026. That would bring the fed funds rate to roughly 2%, from 5.5% currently. The futures market, however, is only pricing about two percentage points of cuts," she ...

Four themes driving 2023: Iggo

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2023
... for additional increases in interest rates beyond what is already priced in i.e., 5% for the US Federal Reserve's fed funds rate; 3.25% to 3.5% for the European Central Bank's deposit rate; and 4.5% for the Bank of England's bank rate. "Further declines ...

US, UK hike interest rates

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2022
... strategist Kerry Craig said. "This is some departure from the three hikes expected back in December and would push the Fed Funds rate to 2.0% by year end. Moreover, a further four hikes in 2023 could see the Fed Funds rate rise to a level above the Fed's ...

Economic recap: Week to September 24

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 SEP 2021
... early as November this year and with the September dot plot showing that nine of 18 FOMC participants expect the fed funds rate to increase in 2022 - up from only seven in the June 2021 meeting - financial markets should have been scared, very scared. ...

Chief economist update: The (dot) plot thickens

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2021
... while the much-anticipated June FOMC meeting produced no change in the prevailing monetary policy setting - the fed funds rate at 0-0.25% and bond purchases at a rate of US$120 billion monthly - the dot plots contained in the 'Statement of Economic ...

Chief economist update: Inflation scare

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2021
... we see substantial further progress," he said. And if the Fed is right, the most recent dot plot shows that the fed funds rate would remain at 0 - 0.25% until at least the year 2023. This is based on the assumptions that the PCE price index - the central ...

Chief economist update: Powell said, Yellen said

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2021
... was able to contain the taper tantrum of 2013 by keeping to its promise to keep interest rates low - it kept the fed funds rate unchanged at 0.25% for another two years (until December 2015).

Chief economist update: The do-nothing Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021
... "dot plot" that shows the FOMC participants' assessments of appropriate monetary policy. And that is, that the fed funds rate would remain at 0 - 0.25% until at least the year 2023 if things turn out as projected... which things almost always never ...

Chief economist update: The cloud over the rainbow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2021
... and the equity markets dropped. It didn't happen overnight, but it happened once more in 2019. After lifting the fed funds rate four times in 2018 and preparing the markets in September of that year for a further three more quarter-point increases in ...

Chief economist update: Zero beyond 2023

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2020
... inflation has risen to 2% and is on track to moderately exceed 2% for some time". Based on the September dot plot, the Fed funds rate would be zero (nought point 25% to be exact) till the year 2023, supported by the latest "economic projections of Federal ...
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