Beckner: Fed To Have Solid Leadership Team With Clarida As Vice Chair
By Steven K. Beckner
17 April 2018
Central Bank News
Beckner: Showdown Looms on Confirmation of Hawkish Fed Board Nominee
11th April 2018 By Steven K. Beckner The word is that the Senate will vote in May on Marvin Goodfriend's nomination to become a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Goodfriend, former Richmond Federal Reserve Bank director of research,...
11 April 2018
Beckner: Minutes Show Some Sentiment For 'Steeper' Hikes, But Fed Still Cautious
By Steven K. Beckner
11 April 2018
Beckner: Designated Dudley Successor Lays Out Case for Continued Rate Hikes
6th April 2018 By Steven K. Beckner San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President John Williams made clear Friday he will back continued gradual but steady monetary tightening when he becomes New York Federal Reserve Bank President in a few months. ...
6 April 2018
Beckner: Williams Brings Economic Experience, Monetary Expertise to NY Fed Job
3rd April 2018 By Steven K. Beckner Although he lacks the hands-on financial markets experience some might have liked to see, it is difficult to imagine a better choice to succeed William Dudley as president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank...
5 April 2018
Beckner: Cautious FOMC Stays On Gradual Tightening Path After 6th Rate Hike
- Still Projects Three 2018 Rate Hikes - 2019-20 Rate Projections Up But Not By Much - 'Neutral' Rate Moved up Just Slightly To 2.9% - Powell Stresses Uncertainty of Outlook, Policy By Steven K. Beckner 21st March 2018 After all...
22 March 2018
Beckner: Not Yet Time For FOMC To Take More Aggressive Stance
14th March 2018 By Steven K. Beckner U.S. monetary policy is transitioning, but at this stage the interest rate outlook is neither as slow and gradualist as it once was nor as rapid and aggressive as some fear it will become. Federal Reserve policymakers...
14 March 2018
ECB Draghi’s Hand Likely Steady At The Helm This Week
6th March 2018 By David Barwick (FRANKFURT) - If little else, the press conference following Thursday’s policy meeting of the European Central Bank’s Governing Council seems likely to confirm that “early” is relative and in particular that the early...
6 March 2018
Beckner: Powell's Latest Testimony Reinforces Message of Monetary Gradualism
1st March 2018 By Steven K. Beckner Financial markets had an unjustifiably sour reaction to Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's first day of Congressional testimony Tuesday, interpreting his comments before the House Financial Services Committee...
2 March 2018
Beckner: Upbeat Powell Opens Door To, Doesn't Threaten Faster Tightening
27th February 2018 By Steven K. Beckner Increased optimism about the economic outlook could eventually lead to more aggressive monetary tightening by the Federal Reserve, but that judgment has not come to full fruition. So far the Fed consensus...
28 February 2018
Beckner: FOMC Minutes, Current Comments Reinforce Gradual Rate Hike Message
21st February 2018 By Steven K. Beckner Minutes of the Jan. 30-31 Federal Open Market Committee meeting show the Federal Reserve policymaking body plans on raising interest rates, but not as aggressively as some had feared. This should have come as...
22 February 2018
ECB’s Vasiliauskas: Slightly More Optimistic, But Must Remain Cautious
21st February 2018 By David Barwick VILNIUS – Although there is reason to be somewhat more optimistic about the economic outlook the euro area is currently looking forward to, the European Central Bank needs to proceed with great caution, sticking to...
21 February 2018
Beckner: Market-Rattling CPI Neither Deters Nor Escalates Fed Rate Hikes
14th February 2018
14 February 2018
Beckner: Fed Policymakers On Course For March Rate Hike Despite Market Plunge
9th February 2018
9 February 2018
Beckner: Shifting Economic, Financial Conditions Could Change Fed Calculations
5th February 2018
5 February 2018
Beckner: FOMC Stays On Hold But Sets Stage For Higher Interest Rates
31st January 2018
1 February 2018
Beckner: FOMC To Reassess Outlook, Review Monetary Policy Framework
26th January 2018
26 January 2018