Fed's debate shifts from lift-off to long march to normal

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#1
Interest rate hike coming real soon...

Fed's debate shifts from lift-off to long march to normal

WASHINGTON - For the Federal Reserve, deciding when to raise rates for the first time in nearly a decade has become the easy part.

The harder call, and one increasingly preoccupying U.S. central bankers, is how fast to move after that, navigating stuttering global growth and nervous markets on the Fed's long journey back to pre-crisis policies.

Betting on the "lift-off" of rates from near-zero has become less of a gamble, particularly after an exceptionally strong jobs report last Friday. After months of wavering as the global economy appeared to weaken, investors have pegged that first rate rise to the middle of next year, and seem to have accepted that the U.S. economy can go its own way.

Recent conversations with Fed policymakers, staff and economists point to an internal debate shifting from the first rate move to the pace of increases thereafter. Stagnant inflation has become less of a concern in light of continued improvement in labor markets. Barring a serious shock, policymakers have indicated they will press ahead with liftoff in coming months, then move cautiously to ensure they do not stifle the recovery by acting too fast.

"Getting started is probably helpful... Otherwise you keep deferring and keep deferring and then the market just keeps pushing this further out... You want to break the glass," said one former Fed official familiar with the debate. From that point on "if inflation stays low you can be in a little bit less of a rush... You don't have to go every meeting."
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http://www.todayonline.com/business/feds...rch-normal
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#2
Raising rates? I am leaning more towards them doing QE 4 as employment get worse after Christmas period and usa exports affected by their own appreciating dollar。

Quite surprised dow,snp havent corrected yet. Well at least oil is correcting A LOT.

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What for raise rates when inflation is below target 2 %?



Rates are only increased to prevent runaway inflation .



There is no necessity to raise rates, raising rates only hurt employment with nothing else good achieved
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I agree as i think many policy makers trying to keep talking in hope that real economic growth stabilised and their respective economies are on a firmer footing before getting into the real act.

Having said all that, with all the problems associated with the global economies, rate hikes need not go that far bursting the bubble in the global financial asset markets...

(11-12-2014, 06:11 PM)Stephen Wrote: What for raise rates when inflation is below target 2 %?



Rates are only increased to prevent runaway inflation .



There is no necessity to raise rates, raising rates only hurt employment with nothing else good achieved
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(11-12-2014, 03:53 PM)CityFarmer Wrote: Fed's debate shifts from lift-off to long march to normal

bloomberg Wrote:One Hundred Years of Bond History Means Bears Destined to Lose

With the longest-dated Treasuries now yielding less than half the 6.8 percent average over the past five decades, it’s not hard to see why forecasters say they’re bound to rise as the Federal Reserve prepares to raise interest rates following the most aggressive stimulus measures in its 100-year history. Yet compared with levels that prevailed in the half-century before that, yields are in line with the norm.

United States Government Bond 10Y 1912-2014

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One important view on the topic...

Krugman fighting consensus says 2015 Fed rate increase unlikely

DUBAI (Dec 15): Paul Krugman, challenging the consensus of economists and the Federal Reserve's forecasts, said policy makers are unlikely to raise interest rates in 2015 as they struggle to spur inflation amid sluggish global economic growth.

“When push comes to shove they’re going to look and say: ‘It’s a pretty weak world economy out there, we don’t see any inflation, and the risk if we raise rates and it turns out we were mistaken is just so huge’,” the 2008 Nobel laureate said in Dubai.

“It’s certainly a real possibility that they’ll go ahead and do it, but probably not, and for what it’s worth I and others are trying to bully them into not doing it.”

Krugman, author of “End This Depression Now!”, has criticized the US government and central bank for not doing more to revive the economy after the financial crisis, and his position now pits him against most Fed officials.

Krugman said financial markets are signalling that policy makers will delay raising borrowing costs.
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http://www.theedgemarkets.com/sg/article...e-unlikely
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FED will have to QE again to support when markets tank in the new year. US need to fix their structural issues first to recover. No easy way out.

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Rate hike is almost a certainty months ago, which was widely accepted by market. Now it is probably the most controversial move by FED...

Fed faces big decision over a few choice words

NEW YORK - Federal Reserve officials will decide this week whether to make a critical change to their policy statement that would widen the door for interest rate hikes next year and effectively bet the United States will continue to shine in a gloomy global economy.

In one of the last major wild cards for financial markets in 2014, the U.S. central bank's policy-setting committee is to issue the statement and fresh economic forecasts on Wednesday at 2 p.m., following a two-day meeting. Fed Chair Janet Yellen will then hold a news conference at 2:30 p.m.
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http://www.todayonline.com/business/fed-...oice-words
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Central Bankers always have a way to convince the financial markets and the world. Anyway, after QE, the new Fed chairwoman will have her job cut out to normalise the after effects of QE. Her words and that of her committee members will be as grey as it would get given that financial markets are now less bubbly post the correction in global commodities market led by oil...

It ain't over till the fat lady sings as they always say... oops...

(15-12-2014, 03:52 PM)CityFarmer Wrote: Rate hike is almost a certainty months ago, which is widely accepted by market. Now it is probably the most controversial move by FED...

Fed faces big decision over a few choice words

NEW YORK - Federal Reserve officials will decide this week whether to make a critical change to their policy statement that would widen the door for interest rate hikes next year and effectively bet the United States will continue to shine in a gloomy global economy.

In one of the last major wild cards for financial markets in 2014, the U.S. central bank's policy-setting committee is to issue the statement and fresh economic forecasts on Wednesday at 2 p.m., following a two-day meeting. Fed Chair Janet Yellen will then hold a news conference at 2:30 p.m.
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http://www.todayonline.com/business/fed-...oice-words
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#10
With spending measures secured and debt ceiling raised till late next year, Fat lady will be buying a new helicopter and enjoying another ride around the world..
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