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Translating The Federal Reserve’s Announcement Into English (August 5, 2008)
For the second consecutive meeting, the Federal Open Market Committee left the Fed Funds Rate unchanged at 2.000 percent.
The key comment — which also appeared in its June statement — is below:
Over time, the substantial easing of monetary policy, combined with ongoing measures to foster market liquidity, should help to promote moderate economic growth.
Translated, it reads:
Rate and policy changes we made until this point have yet to work their way through the economy, but when they do, we expect them to right the economic ship.
In other words, the Fed will likely stay on pause through its September 16 meeting unless something freaky happens. The Fool in the Shower, by the way, is one such freak.
Source
Parsing the Fed Statement
The Wall Street Journal Online
August 5, 2008
http://online.wsj.com/internal/mdc/info-fedparse0808.html
The Fed Won’t Hike at Upcoming Meeting, WSJ and FT Say
The Federal Reserve won’t hike interest rates on June
25 and may not hike in August, articles in the Wall Street Journal and
Financial Times suggest.
The articles follow up a story in Monday’s Washington Post that cited
unnamed sources and said Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has
no plans to raise rates. Combined, they suggest a co-
ordinated effort by policy-makers to cool market expectations for rate
hikes which have been aggressively pricing in rate hikes to cool
inflation.