The Fed or the False Suspense
During its latest committee meeting, the FOMC suspended its interest rate hikes after ten consecutive moves over 15 months. At the same time, policymakers projected...
Category: Monetary policy
Interest Rates: A New Paradigm
7 July 2023 The two-year Treasury yield exceeded 5% last March, reaching a level not seen since June 2007, before the global financial crisis. In...
The ECB follows in the footsteps of the Fed
The euro gained over 1%, and government bonds collapsed following the ECB’s interest rate hike and the message that the trend would continue. On Wednesday,...
How to read the FED decision?
As expected, the FOMC announced on Wednesday that it would keep interest rates unchanged, a first since the beginning of 2022. However, the updated projections...
The FED will pause
Disappointing news on inflation could persuade the Fed to raise interest rates again, giving ammunition to hawks who argue that there is still work to...
A shift in the Central Banks’ position?
It was a week of meetings for the ECB and the FED, and the mood was for a change in both cases. The European Central...
The Fed standing firm
Less than two weeks after the second-largest bank failure in US history, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell made it clear that inflation remains the top...
BCE: The End Of The Rate Hike?
The European Central Bank has gone ahead with a planned half-point rate hike but has stayed silent on what could follow amidst market turbulence that...
The market is wrong, the FED will continue raising interest rates
Exactly one year after launching its tight monetary policy campaign, the Federal Reserve faces a dilemma: continue its fight against inflation or reassure and stabilize...