Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell arrived last year to speak at a “Fed Listens” event
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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and his colleagues at the central bank faced doubts and protests in an attempt to guide the future path to market interest rates, minutes of their September meeting released on Wednesday.
The ten voting members of the committee had two differences from the new forward guidance. It was not known until the publication on Wednesday that the uneasiness about the new policy was quite widespread among the remaining seven officials who did not vote.
According to the minutes, “many” tactics of these Fed officials, in part, because the guidance may limit the flexibility of the central bank. He also argued that by influencing the market’s view of short-term interest rates in the future, “such guidance can contribute to the creation of financial imbalances that can occur for the FOMC to achieve its objectives in the future and Will make it more difficult. “
A “couple” of Fed officials argued against the strategy for various reasons. They wanted the Fed’s commitment to be even stronger and less qualified to keep interest rates near zero. They wanted to tell the Fed that the policy rate would remain near zero until inflation rates above 2% for some time.
Confusion may arise among investors, with Fed officials insisting that the new strategy was not an “unconditional commitment” to a particular path of interest rates.
The information pointing to a strong economic recovery in the wake of the coronovirus epidemic would give rise to expectations for a short period of rates being kept at zero and vice versa, the Fed said.
Many market observers talk about the Fed “promising” to keep it at zero until 2024.
Stocks gained momentum on Wednesday with the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA.
Over 500 points in afternoon trading.
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