{"id":94058,"date":"2023-12-14T00:39:14","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T20:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=94058"},"modified":"2023-12-14T00:43:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T20:43:09","slug":"jerome-powell-sheds-light-on-fomc-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/jerome-powell-sheds-light-on-fomc-decision\/12\/14\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerome Powell sheds light on FOMC&#8217;s pause decision"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Fed Chair Jerome Powell explained the decision to keep the policy rate, federal funds rate, unchanged at the range of 5.25-5.5% and responded to questions in the post-meeting press conference.<br><br><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Quotes from Post FOMC meeting press conference<br><\/span><\/strong><br>&#8220;It&#8217;s not likely we will hike further.&#8221;<br><br>&#8220;Policymakers are thinking, talking about when it will be appropriate to cut rates.&#8221;<br><br>&#8220;We are seeing strong growth that appears to be moderation and inflation making real progress.&#8221;<br><br>&#8220;We still have a ways to go.&#8221;<br><br>&#8220;No one is declaring victory, that would be premature.&#8221;<br><br>&#8220;We are not guaranteed of progress, so moving carefully in assessment of if we need to do more.&#8221;<br><br>&#8220;The question of when it will be appropriate to cut rates is coming into view.&#8221;<br><br>&#8221; I have always felt there was a possibility economy could avert recession while inflation came down, and so far that&#8217;s what we are seeing.&#8221;<br><br>&#8220;That said, this result is not guaranteed.&#8221;<br><br>&#8220;We think we have done enough on rates but we are not fully confident in that view yet.&#8221;<br><br>&#8220;Fair to say there is a lot of uncertainty still going forward.&#8221;<br><br>&#8220;We will look at the totality of data when making policy decisions.&#8221;<br><br>&#8220;We are very focused on not making the mistake of keeping rates too high too long.&#8221;<br><br>&#8220;Both mandates are more in balance now.&#8221;<br><br>&#8220;We will be looking hard at what&#8217;s happening with demand.&#8221;<br><br>&#8220;We haven&#8217;t worked out if we will follow a threshold-based path for cutting rates.&#8221;<br><br>&#8220;We have seen real progress on core inflation.&#8221;<br><br>&#8220;We&#8217;ve seen reasonable progress in non-housing services inflation.&#8221;<br><br>&#8220;Reason you wouldn&#8217;t wait to 2% inflation to cut rates is it would be too late.&#8221;<br><br>&#8220;You need to reduce restriction on economy well before 2%.&#8221;<br><br>&#8220;At some point you will run out of supply-side help, and then it gets harder.&#8221;<br><br>&#8220;We are not talking about altering the pace of QT.&#8221;<br><br>&#8220;Balance sheet is working pretty much as expected.&#8221;<br><br>&#8220;At a certain point, reverse repo facility levels out and reserves will come down.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fed Chair Jerome Powell explained the decision to keep the policy rate, federal funds rate, unchanged at the range of 5.25-5.5% and responded to questions in the post-meeting press conference.Quotes from Post FOMC meeting press conference&#8220;It&#8217;s not likely we will hike further.&#8221;&#8220;Policymakers are thinking, talking about when it will be appropriate to cut rates.&#8221;&#8220;We are &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":94064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,36],"tags":[9551,7903,6885,9591,6987,10371,7163,8643,8195,7536],"class_list":["post-94058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-forex-markets","category-market-updates","tag-balance-sheet","tag-economic-growth","tag-fed","tag-fomc-decision","tag-inflation","tag-interest-rate-pause","tag-jerome-powell","tag-qt","tag-rate-cuts","tag-recession"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94058"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94065,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94058\/revisions\/94065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}