A More Optimistic FOMC
The minutes from the latest FOMC meeting are indicating a more optimistic group that controls the monetary policy. The higher GDP forecast for 2010 is now at 3.2% to 3.7% with core inflation forecasts lowered down to a range of…
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While most board members are favoring asset sales, the board is divided over when even if it wants to go back to a more normal portfolio. In short, all that agency and mortgage paper it owns WILL be sold. Just not yet.
This is all great, except for one thing. The minutes from the last meeting was based upon the end of April. That means that the woes of the PIIGS and Greece had not yet become a Eurozone-wide fire. Whether or not that matters, we’ll know in the coming weeks.
The big takeaway is that the news of today and the minutes from last month signal that the officials in charge are not going to jack rates up any faster than they have telegraphed.
JON C. OGG
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Jon Ogg has been a financial news analyst since 1997. Mr. Ogg set up one of the first audio squawk box services for traders called TTN, which he sold in 2003. He has previously worked as a licensed broker to some of the top U.S. and E.U. financial institutions, managed capital, and has raised private capital at the seed and venture stage. He has lived in Copenhagen, Denmark, as well as New York and Chicago, and he now lives in Houston, Texas. Jon received a Bachelor of Business Administration in finance at University of Houston in 1992. www.247wallst.com.
