Now that the Fed will raise rates, can it? Federal Reserve Chief Janet Yellen said last week she expects to raise interest rates in 2015 after seven years of unprecedented easy money helped the economy shake the financial crisis and recession. And so the question for the central bank is likely to soon move from when it will boost its benchmark rate to: Can it? Because of the massive amount of cash sloshing around the banking system, the Fed will have to employ new, riskier tactics to gradually lift borrowing costs, strategies that makes sense but are less precise, especially if there's a scare in the markets. "Nobody's ever done this before," says Jon Faust, director of the Center for Financial Economics for Johns Hopkins University and special adviser to the Fed's board of governors until last September. The Fed's capacity to bump up rates is critical to retaining the confidence of financial markets and heading off a potentially sharp rise in inflation as the economy heats up. The Fed's policymaking committee "is confident that it has the tools it needs to raise short-term interest rates when it becomes appropriate to do so," Yellen said earlier this year. Faust agrees, but adds that those tools, "will almost certainly be less precise" than they were before the financial crisis. ...... http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2015/07/20/fed-could-face-c
【在 g******4 的大作中提到】 : Now that the Fed will raise rates, can it? : Federal Reserve Chief Janet Yellen said last week she expects to raise : interest rates in 2015 after seven years of unprecedented easy money helped : the economy shake the financial crisis and recession. And so the question : for the central bank is likely to soon move from when it will boost its : benchmark rate to: Can it? : Because of the massive amount of cash sloshing around the banking system, : the Fed will have to employ new, riskier tactics to gradually lift borrowing : costs, strategies that makes sense but are less precise, especially if : there's a scare in the markets.
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The Fed accidentally released a confidential analysis of where interest rates are going ---------------- Currently, the fed funds rate is between 0 and 0.25 percent, the same level it has been since the financial crisis hit in 2008. Top Fed officials, including Chair Janet Yellen, have telegraphed for months that they expect to finally raise it by the end of the year. In the confidential forecast, staff estimated the fed funds rate would be 0.35 percent during the fourth quarter. That tells us a few things. First, it virtually confirms that the Fed has no plans to raise interest rates when its policymakers meet in Washington next week. Of course, no one had really expected them to, despite Yellen’s testimony last week before Congress that “we could make decisions at any meeting.” http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/07/24/the-
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[1] U.S. banks and thrift institutions are obligated by law to maintain certain levels of reserves, either as reserves with the Fed or as vault cash . The level of these reserves is determined by the outstanding assets and liabilities of each depository institution, as well as by the Fed itself, but is typically 10%[5] of the total value of the bank's demand accounts ( depending on bank size). The nominal rate is a target set by the governors of the Federal Reserve, which they enforce primarily by open market operations. That nominal rate is almost always what is meant by the media referring to the Federal Reserve " changing interest rates." The actual federal funds rate generally lies within a range of that target rate, as the Federal Reserve cannot set an exact value through open market operations. The federal funds rate target is decided by the governors at Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meetings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_funds_rate [2] But since the Fed bought massive quantities of Treasury and mortgage bonds after the crisis to stimulate a wobbly economy, banks have $2.5 trillion in excess reserves, up from about $2 billion pre-crisis. As a result, the Fed can no longer impact the fed funds rate with relatively small securities purchases. Instead, it has set the funds rate since 2008 by paying banks 0.25% in interest to park their excess reserves at the Fed overnight. No bank should lend money at a rate below a risk-free deposit at the Fed. As the Fed pushes up rates, it will announce a target range for the funds rate, probably 0.25% to 0.5% initially. The reverse repo rate will serve as the floor for that range, and the excess-reserve rate for banks, the ceiling. ...... Fed policymakers have said they have other tools to raise rates, including offering longer-term deposits to banks, raising the rate on excess reserves and selling bonds. All would absorb cash from the financial system and push up the Fed's key rate. http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2015/07/20/fed-could-face-c
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【在 g******4 的大作中提到】 : [1] U.S. banks and thrift institutions are obligated by law to maintain : certain levels of reserves, either as reserves with the Fed or as vault cash : . The level of these reserves is determined by the outstanding assets and : liabilities of each depository institution, as well as by the Fed itself, : but is typically 10%[5] of the total value of the bank's demand accounts ( : depending on bank size). : The nominal rate is a target set by the governors of the Federal Reserve, : which they enforce primarily by open market operations. That nominal rate is : almost always what is meant by the media referring to the Federal Reserve " : changing interest rates." The actual federal funds rate generally lies
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Please google "billionaires dumping stocks" with [search tools] "Past month" ------------------- 高盛总裁Gary Cohn周三(6月23日)表示,尽管数年以来市场一直在谈论美联储将于何 时以及如何升息,但这并不意味着市场已经为此做好准备了,若美联储真的开始加息, 市场参与者仍有可能被打个措手不及。 “我们可能并没有人们预计的准备的那么充分,”Cohn周三在高盛的网站上发布的视频 中表示,“美联储改变利率政策时,若市场上出现一些有趣的反应,那么我一点都不感 到意外。” 经济学家们预计,美联储在实行了6年多的近零利率之后,将于9月份首次升息。Cohn引 用了美国和欧元区的量化宽松政策作为宏观经济事件的例子,尽管市场长期以来已经预 见到这些政策的实施,但是政策公布之后仍引起了不小的市场波动。 “当真的发生时,往往不是事件的第一衍生事件让人们措手不及,”Coln指出,“而是 第二、第三和第四衍生事件让人们措手不及。” 作为全球最大的投行之一,高盛今年前三个月固定收益高达12%。高盛首席财务官 Harvey Schwartz指出,该时期的“一个主要议题就是央行政策”。 Cohn指出,大多数企业客户已经利用低利率发行债务和筹集资金。 ---------------- http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-24/goldman-s-coh Years of discussing when and how the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates probably isn’t going to prevent market participants from being caught off guard, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. President Gary Cohn said. “We’re probably less ready than people think,” Cohn said on a podcast posted Wednesday on the firm’s website. “It won’t at all be surprising to me if there are some interesting market reactions based on official change in rate policy by the Fed.” Economists estimate the U.S. central bank will begin raising its benchmark target in September after more than six years of near-zero rates. Cohn cited quantitative easing in the U.S. and Europe as examples of macroeconomic events that were long expected and still caused market swings when announced. “When it does happen, it’s usually not the first-derivative event that people are caught off guard by,” Cohn said. “They’re caught off guard by the second-, third- and fourth-derivative events. It’s ‘Oh yeah, when interest rates go up, that happens.’” Goldman Sachs, one of the largest global trading banks, posted a 12 percent jump in fixed-income revenue in the first three months of the year. Chief Financial Officer Harvey Schwartz said that period “was dominated by one primary theme, central bank policies.”
Now that the Fed will raise rates, can it? Federal Reserve Chief Janet Yellen said last week she expects to raise interest rates in 2015 after seven years of unprecedented easy money helped the economy shake the financial crisis and recession. And so the question for the central bank is likely to soon move from when it will boost its benchmark rate to: Can it? Because of the massive amount of cash sloshing around the banking system, the Fed will have to employ new, riskier tactics to gradually lift borrowing costs, strategies that makes sense but are less precise, especially if there's a scare in the markets. "Nobody's ever done this before," says Jon Faust, director of the Center for Financial Economics for Johns Hopkins University and special adviser to the Fed's board of governors until last September. The Fed's capacity to bump up rates is critical to retaining the confidence of financial markets and heading off a potentially sharp rise in inflation as the economy heats up. The Fed's policymaking committee "is confident that it has the tools it needs to raise short-term interest rates when it becomes appropriate to do so," Yellen said earlier this year. Faust agrees, but adds that those tools, "will almost certainly be less precise" than they were before the financial crisis. ...... http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2015/07/20/fed-could-face-c
【在 g******4 的大作中提到】 : Now that the Fed will raise rates, can it? : Federal Reserve Chief Janet Yellen said last week she expects to raise : interest rates in 2015 after seven years of unprecedented easy money helped : the economy shake the financial crisis and recession. And so the question : for the central bank is likely to soon move from when it will boost its : benchmark rate to: Can it? : Because of the massive amount of cash sloshing around the banking system, : the Fed will have to employ new, riskier tactics to gradually lift borrowing : costs, strategies that makes sense but are less precise, especially if : there's a scare in the markets.
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[1] U.S. banks and thrift institutions are obligated by law to maintain certain levels of reserves, either as reserves with the Fed or as vault cash . The level of these reserves is determined by the outstanding assets and liabilities of each depository institution, as well as by the Fed itself, but is typically 10%[5] of the total value of the bank's demand accounts ( depending on bank size). The nominal rate is a target set by the governors of the Federal Reserve, which they enforce primarily by open market operations. That nominal rate is almost always what is meant by the media referring to the Federal Reserve " changing interest rates." The actual federal funds rate generally lies within a range of that target rate, as the Federal Reserve cannot set an exact value through open market operations. The federal funds rate target is decided by the governors at Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meetings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_funds_rate [2] But since the Fed bought massive quantities of Treasury and mortgage bonds after the crisis to stimulate a wobbly economy, banks have $2.5 trillion in excess reserves, up from about $2 billion pre-crisis. As a result, the Fed can no longer impact the fed funds rate with relatively small securities purchases. Instead, it has set the funds rate since 2008 by paying banks 0.25% in interest to park their excess reserves at the Fed overnight. No bank should lend money at a rate below a risk-free deposit at the Fed. As the Fed pushes up rates, it will announce a target range for the funds rate, probably 0.25% to 0.5% initially. The reverse repo rate will serve as the floor for that range, and the excess-reserve rate for banks, the ceiling. ...... Fed policymakers have said they have other tools to raise rates, including offering longer-term deposits to banks, raising the rate on excess reserves and selling bonds. All would absorb cash from the financial system and push up the Fed's key rate. http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2015/07/20/fed-could-face-c
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It is coming ...
【在 g******4 的大作中提到】 : [1] U.S. banks and thrift institutions are obligated by law to maintain : certain levels of reserves, either as reserves with the Fed or as vault cash : . The level of these reserves is determined by the outstanding assets and : liabilities of each depository institution, as well as by the Fed itself, : but is typically 10%[5] of the total value of the bank's demand accounts ( : depending on bank size). : The nominal rate is a target set by the governors of the Federal Reserve, : which they enforce primarily by open market operations. That nominal rate is : almost always what is meant by the media referring to the Federal Reserve " : changing interest rates." The actual federal funds rate generally lies
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Timing不对即使结果对的也赔钱
【在 g******4 的大作中提到】 : It is coming ...
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-------------- U.S. hiring swelled in October by the largest amount all year, and unemployment dropped another notch to 5 percent, increasing the likelihood that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates next month for the first time in a decade. With Americans spending more on everything from restaurant meals and clothing to new cars, employers added an impressive 271,000 jobs last month. That was a strong rebound from August and September, when turmoil in China and other economies overseas p.. - See more at: http://www.ooyuz.com/geturl?aid=9065526#sthash.wJU13HQz.dpuf ------------------- Yellen: U.S. economy doing well; Dec rate hike possible Posted - November 08 2015 19:5 WakeyWakeyNews http://wakeywakeynews.com/8386/yellen-us-u-s-economy-doing-well-dec-rate-hike-possible ----------------------