Claire Jones
speaker
248 appearances
11 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 17 Sep
Claire Jones’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Both of them have got votes on Wednesday, and it'll be very interesting to see if they vote for a hike, even if the bulk of the committee opts to hold interest rates.
I think that uncertainty may be one reason why we see a rate hold this week.
Before the September meeting, which is when the Fed will next vote, we'll get a few more inflation readings and a bit more of a sense how much the US's inflation problem is going to be exacerbated by the war in Iran.
So it doesn't help matters that we've seen the oil price shoot up to $100 per barrel, but we could see it shoot lower again if we see a deal materialise.
So Fed officials may just want to wait and see how geoeconomic developments proceed over the coming weeks before voting for a rate rise.
Thanks, Victoria.
This is what Walsh wants, in a way, is for markets to speculate.
So we've been in an era where central banks have really spelt out not only what the decisions are at the moment, but what they're likely to do in the future.
And Walsh does not like this so-called forward guidance.
What he's looking at doing is rowing it back.
We saw the first attempts by him to row it back last week, and more is expected in the pipeline and
That's what's got some investors concerned, really.
We saw Walsh not submit a dot to the dot plots which outline the future path for U.S.
interest rates.
We also saw a truncated statement with no steer on whether or not the Fed expects the next moving interest rates to be up or down.
And what that led to in the markets were bets that we'd see more interest rate hikes in the coming months.
We saw two-year yields, which are very sensitive to monetary policy, move up quite dramatically to their highest level in more than a year.
Well, indeed, and this is what Walsh wants in a way is for markets to speculate.
What he argued for in the press conference is that we've entered this world where because central banks are offering so many clues as to what comes next, Wall Street is trying to second guess the Fed rather than come up with its own judgment on what should happen to interest rates based on reading the economic data.
He wants to see markets take a more
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