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The Fed is going to raise rates tomorrow, so it makes sense for the two-year yield to rise to 4.75 p...
ALEX LI I think the Fed is going to raise interest rates over the rest of this year. I think it will go up a...
FRANKLIN RAINES With people convinced the Fed will go again in March, fed funds will be up at 4.75 percent. So why b...
FRANK HSU The report is probably a shade on the weak side and it increases the chance that the Fed is more lik...
CARY LEAHEY The Fed fund futures are rallying higher and are factoring in a 75 percent chance of a 25 basis poin...
BILL HORNBARGER We expect the Fed to raise rates to 4.75 percent in March. The market isn't fully pricing this in, s...
CALLUM HENDERSON The market is starting to talk about 4.75 percent and the risk of the Fed perhaps moving to five and...
ADARSH SINHA![]()
We expect maybe 50 basis points of Fed fund increases between now and December. The market is pricin...
LARRY JONES Those who expect further rate hikes can note that the real Fed Funds rate has yet to reach at least ...
ASHRAF LAIDI We think the Fed will continue cutting rates, although less aggressively. We are expecting another [...
BRUCE STEINBERG The front end of the curve tried to rally a little bit and there was a trade down in the belly of th...
DOMINIC KONSTAM At present there is a probability of just under 70 percent of the Fed raising interest rates to 5.0 ...
GAVIN FRIEND [Overall, following the statement,] the market is fairly clear that the Fed will keep raising rates ...
JEFF KLEINTOP The market is worried that the Fed might continue to raise rates for longer than what was previously...
RICARDO AMORIM The Fed is going to finish at about 5 percent, or certainly pause at 5 percent.
RICHARD GRACE The current fed fund rate of 4.50 percent seems to be serving as a floor for the 10-year yield.
HIDEHIKO MAEJIMA One of the things that happened today is the sneaky suspicion that the Fed may raise interest rates ...
MARK STOECKLE Longer-term rates will not rise dramatically as long as the Fed keeps the short-term policy rate at ...
DAVID KOTOK In January I placed the likelihood of a Federal Reserve Rate hike in May at less than 10 percent. I ...
ERNIE GOSS As for the Fed, we look for 50 (basis points, a half-percentage point) next week.
IAN SHEPHERDSON![]()
It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER The world is coming to a view that the Fed is going to provide more liquidity and interest rates wil...
ADAM MYERS Everyone knew the Fed was going to come in and do something sooner or later, ... We're no longer spe...
JOHN MANLEY I'm U.S. dollar bullish over the next three months, largely because the Fed will go to 4.75 percent ...
CAMERON BAGRIE It takes pressure off the Fed to hike interest rates more dramatically [than a quarter point] in Aug...
CARY LEAHEY It takes pressure off the Fed to hike interest rates more dramatically [than a quarter point] in Aug...
CARY LEAHEY There's the thought that even if the Fed comes in with a half-percentage-point hike, the market is a...
GEORGE RODRIGUEZ Supply in this quarter will be bigger than usual, so it will have a bad effect on the market. It's d...
HIROYUKI YAMADA I think the bond market is stuck in a reasonable tight range based on a long bond of 5.5 percent, an...
ALAN LEVENSON![]()
These are horrendous numbers that put the equation in stark relief for the Fed. They have to cut rat...
DAVID BROWN I think the market tends to rally in front of a Fed meeting, ... I think what is going to happen is ...
VINCE FARRELL Our base case is that they (Fed) will go to five percent this quarter and then pause. There is a ris...
BILAL HAFEEZ There is basically 100 percent pricing for a tightening in U.S. rates ....
ADAM MYERS We needed 20 percent economic growth in the third quarter to get rid of all of the excess capacity i...
ETHAN HARRIS We needed 20 percent economic growth in the third quarter to get rid of all of the excess capacity i...
ETHAN HARRIS Yes, Greenspan does admit the obvious, that the real federal funds rate has risen considerably, but ...
ANTHONY CHAN There's still an expectation that the Fed will raise rates another quarter-point.
ANDY WHITAKER The two likely things influencing the market (this) week is the direction of energy prices and the i...
JOE LIRO There are some people who would like to see the Fed raise by a half-percentage point when it meets n...
BRIAN BENSCH The world assumes the Fed will raise the rates by a quarter percentage point, that's a non-event. It...
JACK ABLIN All the market is doing at the moment is trying to work out when the Fed is going to finish on rates...
GEOFF KENDRICK The year-on-year was (up) 2.2 percent. That is a change and that is worrisome for the Fed. You would...
KURT KARL Sentiment is building that the Fed may pause for a while after raising rates to 5 percent next month...
HIDEHIKO MAEJIMA Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM Our view is that we get above-trend growth and that will cause the Fed to raise rates to 5 percent.
AMITABH ARORA![]()
We've believed all along that the Fed would do whatever they were going to do by the June meeting, s...
LARRY JONES The 1.9 percent December year-over-year rise in the core personal consumption expenditure index refl...
PATRICK FEARON There's probably not enough indication that the Fed is ready to end (rate increases) to help the sto...
BENJAMIN PACE![]()
The wording underlines that the Fed is obviously worried about a sharper economic slowdown than the ...
DAVID BROWN The residual impact from the Fed is definitely positive for the dollar. The Fed message is clearly a...
BORIS SCHLOSSBERG The residual impact from the Fed is definitely positive for the dollar. The Fed message is clearly a...
BORIS SCHLOSSBERG Despite the gradual rise in mortgage rates over the last two months, housing starts were actually up...
FRANK NOTHAFT Given the data we've seen, one can't rule out a 50 basis point (one-half percentage point) hike. We'...
BILL MEEHAN He'll play this week. He's not 100 percent, but 90 percent of Brian is better than most people at 10...
BRAD CLANTON The market is more focused on the bigger trends we have seen of late, and that is concerns about inf...
PETER BOOCKVAR Looking forward into the fourth quarter, at this point we are not highly optimistic that there will ...
KAREN HAUS Today's data should confirm the overall relatively constructive picture for the U.S. in 2006, we're ...
BILAL HAFEEZ There is no operating manual that says what a neutral fed funds rate is, but the Fed knows that it's...
MARK VITNER We think the Fed will keep going to 5 percent by May.
JUNYA TANASE Simply because the Fed is maintaining an accommodative monetary policy position doesn't mean they ke...
MIKE RYAN This is not something that Fed officials want to see, and there may be a serious discussion within t...
JEFF THREDGOLD I think there is going to be a certain amount of relief when the Fed stops raising rates.
DIANE BISHOP The implications are a bit worrying for spreads, particularly for the corporate market. The inversio...
DAVID GOLDMAN You have a responsibility to help less fortunate Americans cope with the high cost of heating fuels....
CHARLES GRASSLEY Treasuries are expensive at these levels given that the Fed is still going to raise interest rates. ...
HIROYUKI YAMADA The reaction in the market has a lot to do with the perception that Katrina is a reason for the Fed ...
JANET ENGELS We need clear evidence that the economy is growing very strongly for the Fed to raise rates above 4....
BRIAN ROSE Shrugging off statements by the Fed last week, mortgage rates remained relatively more stable than b...
AMY CUTTS This [confidence report] increases the likelihood [rates] will be moved down another [half percentag...
WAYNE ANGELL The stock market reaction, if they cut a quarter point, probably will be as much a yawn as anything ...
DAVID BLITZER The Fed cut 100 basis points (one percentage point) in January and we've got another 50 under our be...
BRYAN PISKOROWSKI There?s never been a decline in the stock market in the 12 weeks prior to the end of a series of Fed...
JEFFREY KLEINTOP We are going for a flat market in aggregate for next year, with a bit of upside in the first quarter...
BEN FUNNELL We are going for a flat market in aggregate for next year, with a bit of upside in the first quarter...
BEN FUNNELL Employment growth will keep the economy going and the bond market will be susceptible to the strengt...
HIDEHIKO MAEJIMA We continue to see difficulties for the nation's factories. This is a figure that continues to argue...
KEVIN FLANAGAN The market, particularly the short end, is weighed by the suggestion from the minutes that inflation...
AKIFUMI UCHIDA The Fed Chairman would be very happy if the bond market did some of the tightening for him. And I th...
ALAN RUSKIN The overall growth of data storage is going up at about a 100 percent every year, and in conjunction...
CLINTON MORRISON There are two key challenges to the U.S. market: one is Fed policy -- and it's still our concern tha...
GARY DUGAN His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING Anything but a quarter percentage point move will get a reaction. A 50 basis point move would see a ...
ART HOGAN Markets are confident that the Fed will raise rates another 25 basis points at the Federal Open Mark...
ANN OWEN With Katrina the potential for rates to stay lower than they otherwise would have is greater. If the...
GERALD ZUKOWSKI![]()
Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS...![]()
Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER![]()
Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS... The Fed is a price fixer; it fixes the price of short-term credit. If there's an increase in demand ...
PAUL KASRIEL We believe that the Fed will require both consistent solid hiring and a rise in inflation before it ...
MAURY HARRIS You have a responsibility to help less fortunate Americans cope with the high cost of heating fuels,...
CHUCK GRASSLEY Even though the interest rate rise had been discounted, a half percentage point rise in local intere...
JAMES SO I'm sure rising interest rates at some point are going to take some buyers out of the marketplace. T...
BERNARD HELM To say it (the injured hip) was 100 percent would probably be overstating it but to be able to have ...
ANDRE AGASSI Today's labor report could not have been more disheartening to those who thought the Fed had ended i...
EUGENIO ALEMAN Nobody knows when the Fed is going to quit raising rates. Once the market feels comfortable with tha...
EDWARD HEMMELGARN It's a neutral to a decent number. I don't think this number adds to the argument that the Fed is st...
RICHARD FRANULOVICH This is kind of capping a string of fairly strong numbers, and I'm even going to have to boost my es...
MAUREEN ALLYN![]()
Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
R. D. LAING
ALEX LI I think the Fed is going to raise interest rates over the rest of this year. I think it will go up a...
FRANKLIN RAINES With people convinced the Fed will go again in March, fed funds will be up at 4.75 percent. So why b...
FRANK HSU The report is probably a shade on the weak side and it increases the chance that the Fed is more lik...
CARY LEAHEY The Fed fund futures are rallying higher and are factoring in a 75 percent chance of a 25 basis poin...
BILL HORNBARGER We expect the Fed to raise rates to 4.75 percent in March. The market isn't fully pricing this in, s...
CALLUM HENDERSON The market is starting to talk about 4.75 percent and the risk of the Fed perhaps moving to five and...
ADARSH SINHA
We expect maybe 50 basis points of Fed fund increases between now and December. The market is pricin... LARRY JONES Those who expect further rate hikes can note that the real Fed Funds rate has yet to reach at least ...
ASHRAF LAIDI We think the Fed will continue cutting rates, although less aggressively. We are expecting another [...
BRUCE STEINBERG The front end of the curve tried to rally a little bit and there was a trade down in the belly of th...
DOMINIC KONSTAM At present there is a probability of just under 70 percent of the Fed raising interest rates to 5.0 ...
GAVIN FRIEND [Overall, following the statement,] the market is fairly clear that the Fed will keep raising rates ...
JEFF KLEINTOP The market is worried that the Fed might continue to raise rates for longer than what was previously...
RICARDO AMORIM The Fed is going to finish at about 5 percent, or certainly pause at 5 percent.
RICHARD GRACE The current fed fund rate of 4.50 percent seems to be serving as a floor for the 10-year yield.
HIDEHIKO MAEJIMA One of the things that happened today is the sneaky suspicion that the Fed may raise interest rates ...
MARK STOECKLE Longer-term rates will not rise dramatically as long as the Fed keeps the short-term policy rate at ...
DAVID KOTOK In January I placed the likelihood of a Federal Reserve Rate hike in May at less than 10 percent. I ...
ERNIE GOSS As for the Fed, we look for 50 (basis points, a half-percentage point) next week.
IAN SHEPHERDSON
It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER The world is coming to a view that the Fed is going to provide more liquidity and interest rates wil...
ADAM MYERS Everyone knew the Fed was going to come in and do something sooner or later, ... We're no longer spe...
JOHN MANLEY I'm U.S. dollar bullish over the next three months, largely because the Fed will go to 4.75 percent ...
CAMERON BAGRIE It takes pressure off the Fed to hike interest rates more dramatically [than a quarter point] in Aug...
CARY LEAHEY It takes pressure off the Fed to hike interest rates more dramatically [than a quarter point] in Aug...
CARY LEAHEY There's the thought that even if the Fed comes in with a half-percentage-point hike, the market is a...
GEORGE RODRIGUEZ Supply in this quarter will be bigger than usual, so it will have a bad effect on the market. It's d...
HIROYUKI YAMADA I think the bond market is stuck in a reasonable tight range based on a long bond of 5.5 percent, an...
ALAN LEVENSON
These are horrendous numbers that put the equation in stark relief for the Fed. They have to cut rat... DAVID BROWN I think the market tends to rally in front of a Fed meeting, ... I think what is going to happen is ...
VINCE FARRELL Our base case is that they (Fed) will go to five percent this quarter and then pause. There is a ris...
BILAL HAFEEZ There is basically 100 percent pricing for a tightening in U.S. rates ....
ADAM MYERS We needed 20 percent economic growth in the third quarter to get rid of all of the excess capacity i...
ETHAN HARRIS We needed 20 percent economic growth in the third quarter to get rid of all of the excess capacity i...
ETHAN HARRIS Yes, Greenspan does admit the obvious, that the real federal funds rate has risen considerably, but ...
ANTHONY CHAN There's still an expectation that the Fed will raise rates another quarter-point.
ANDY WHITAKER The two likely things influencing the market (this) week is the direction of energy prices and the i...
JOE LIRO There are some people who would like to see the Fed raise by a half-percentage point when it meets n...
BRIAN BENSCH The world assumes the Fed will raise the rates by a quarter percentage point, that's a non-event. It...
JACK ABLIN All the market is doing at the moment is trying to work out when the Fed is going to finish on rates...
GEOFF KENDRICK The year-on-year was (up) 2.2 percent. That is a change and that is worrisome for the Fed. You would...
KURT KARL Sentiment is building that the Fed may pause for a while after raising rates to 5 percent next month...
HIDEHIKO MAEJIMA Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM Our view is that we get above-trend growth and that will cause the Fed to raise rates to 5 percent.
AMITABH ARORA
We've believed all along that the Fed would do whatever they were going to do by the June meeting, s... LARRY JONES The 1.9 percent December year-over-year rise in the core personal consumption expenditure index refl...
PATRICK FEARON There's probably not enough indication that the Fed is ready to end (rate increases) to help the sto...
BENJAMIN PACE
The wording underlines that the Fed is obviously worried about a sharper economic slowdown than the ... DAVID BROWN The residual impact from the Fed is definitely positive for the dollar. The Fed message is clearly a...
BORIS SCHLOSSBERG The residual impact from the Fed is definitely positive for the dollar. The Fed message is clearly a...
BORIS SCHLOSSBERG Despite the gradual rise in mortgage rates over the last two months, housing starts were actually up...
FRANK NOTHAFT Given the data we've seen, one can't rule out a 50 basis point (one-half percentage point) hike. We'...
BILL MEEHAN He'll play this week. He's not 100 percent, but 90 percent of Brian is better than most people at 10...
BRAD CLANTON The market is more focused on the bigger trends we have seen of late, and that is concerns about inf...
PETER BOOCKVAR Looking forward into the fourth quarter, at this point we are not highly optimistic that there will ...
KAREN HAUS Today's data should confirm the overall relatively constructive picture for the U.S. in 2006, we're ...
BILAL HAFEEZ There is no operating manual that says what a neutral fed funds rate is, but the Fed knows that it's...
MARK VITNER We think the Fed will keep going to 5 percent by May.
JUNYA TANASE Simply because the Fed is maintaining an accommodative monetary policy position doesn't mean they ke...
MIKE RYAN This is not something that Fed officials want to see, and there may be a serious discussion within t...
JEFF THREDGOLD I think there is going to be a certain amount of relief when the Fed stops raising rates.
DIANE BISHOP The implications are a bit worrying for spreads, particularly for the corporate market. The inversio...
DAVID GOLDMAN You have a responsibility to help less fortunate Americans cope with the high cost of heating fuels....
CHARLES GRASSLEY Treasuries are expensive at these levels given that the Fed is still going to raise interest rates. ...
HIROYUKI YAMADA The reaction in the market has a lot to do with the perception that Katrina is a reason for the Fed ...
JANET ENGELS We need clear evidence that the economy is growing very strongly for the Fed to raise rates above 4....
BRIAN ROSE Shrugging off statements by the Fed last week, mortgage rates remained relatively more stable than b...
AMY CUTTS This [confidence report] increases the likelihood [rates] will be moved down another [half percentag...
WAYNE ANGELL The stock market reaction, if they cut a quarter point, probably will be as much a yawn as anything ...
DAVID BLITZER The Fed cut 100 basis points (one percentage point) in January and we've got another 50 under our be...
BRYAN PISKOROWSKI There?s never been a decline in the stock market in the 12 weeks prior to the end of a series of Fed...
JEFFREY KLEINTOP We are going for a flat market in aggregate for next year, with a bit of upside in the first quarter...
BEN FUNNELL We are going for a flat market in aggregate for next year, with a bit of upside in the first quarter...
BEN FUNNELL Employment growth will keep the economy going and the bond market will be susceptible to the strengt...
HIDEHIKO MAEJIMA We continue to see difficulties for the nation's factories. This is a figure that continues to argue...
KEVIN FLANAGAN The market, particularly the short end, is weighed by the suggestion from the minutes that inflation...
AKIFUMI UCHIDA The Fed Chairman would be very happy if the bond market did some of the tightening for him. And I th...
ALAN RUSKIN The overall growth of data storage is going up at about a 100 percent every year, and in conjunction...
CLINTON MORRISON There are two key challenges to the U.S. market: one is Fed policy -- and it's still our concern tha...
GARY DUGAN His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING Anything but a quarter percentage point move will get a reaction. A 50 basis point move would see a ...
ART HOGAN Markets are confident that the Fed will raise rates another 25 basis points at the Federal Open Mark...
ANN OWEN With Katrina the potential for rates to stay lower than they otherwise would have is greater. If the...
GERALD ZUKOWSKI
Life is a re-discovery. BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS...
Life Is a Misconception. DEYTH BANGER
Life is a desire! DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS... The Fed is a price fixer; it fixes the price of short-term credit. If there's an increase in demand ...
PAUL KASRIEL We believe that the Fed will require both consistent solid hiring and a rise in inflation before it ...
MAURY HARRIS You have a responsibility to help less fortunate Americans cope with the high cost of heating fuels,...
CHUCK GRASSLEY Even though the interest rate rise had been discounted, a half percentage point rise in local intere...
JAMES SO I'm sure rising interest rates at some point are going to take some buyers out of the marketplace. T...
BERNARD HELM To say it (the injured hip) was 100 percent would probably be overstating it but to be able to have ...
ANDRE AGASSI Today's labor report could not have been more disheartening to those who thought the Fed had ended i...
EUGENIO ALEMAN Nobody knows when the Fed is going to quit raising rates. Once the market feels comfortable with tha...
EDWARD HEMMELGARN It's a neutral to a decent number. I don't think this number adds to the argument that the Fed is st...
RICHARD FRANULOVICH This is kind of capping a string of fairly strong numbers, and I'm even going to have to boost my es...
MAUREEN ALLYN
Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent. R. D. LAING
