BOE Bailey: Far to early to be thinking about rate cuts

BOE Bailey: Far too early to be thinking about rate cuts Returning inflation to 2% target remains our absolute priority When inflation is high, we take no chances The tragic events in the Middle East have added upside risk to energy prices Labor market remains tight despite softening recently Wage inflation remains elevated. We must

Politics, Fed seen swaying Japan’s yen intervention thinking By Reuters

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Coins and banknotes of Japanese yen are seen in this illustration picture taken June 16, 2022. REUTERS/Florence Lo/Illustration By Leika Kihara and Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) -The Federal Reserve’s Jackson Hole symposium this week looms as a key risk for Japanese authorities worried that new hawkish signals from U.S. central bankers

We should start thinking about how long to hold rates

Share: According to Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Austan Goolsbee, they should start thinking about how long to hold rates. In an interview with Bloomberg, he said that the last couple of inflation readings were pretty positive.  Regarding Fitch’s US credit downgrade, Goolsbee mentioned that it won’t make much difference. On the