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The hurricane impact in the fourth quarter is going to be quite evident and people will look beyond ...
CRAIG CHAN The market is likely to find enough underpinnings in the FOMC statement to lessen fears of Fed tight...
ANTHONY KARYDAKIS The general profile of consumer spending is still strong. The report shouldn't be enough to change e...
JAY FELDMAN I think he (Greenspan) made it very clear the Fed is still in a tightening mode.
BILL HORNBARGER The bond market took this report as a sign that core inflation may be bottoming and the Fed may stil...
CARY LEAHEY The bond market took this report as a sign that core inflation may be bottoming and the Fed may stil...
CARY LEAHEY The Fed should be cautious about over-tightening and causing too much of a downturn in the housing m...
GLENN HABERBUSH There is basically 100 percent pricing for a tightening in U.S. rates ....
ADAM MYERS It's a rapidly tightening market. If we have a normal winter, there is not enough supply being made ...
DAVID KNAPP For the Fed, I don't think it changes much. It's not weak enough that it would change their measured...
ALAN RUSKIN There's probably not enough indication that the Fed is ready to end (rate increases) to help the sto...
BENJAMIN PACE The Fed Chairman would be very happy if the bond market did some of the tightening for him,
ALAN RUSKIN The Fed still has a tightening bias. It could go up by 50 basis points.
ANDREW CHAVERIAT His testimony is apt to be consistent with the notion that the Fed is still in a tightening mode and...
TONY CRESCENZI I still believe Asian currencies are glaringly undervalued. They will rally when the Fed stops tight...
CHRISTOPHER WOOD The market has been adapting in the last few days to the monetary policy adjustment in Europe and to...
ALBERTO BERNAL![]()
We expect maybe 50 basis points of Fed fund increases between now and December. The market is pricin...
LARRY JONES My impression is that the market is correctly anticipating that the Fed is close to being finished w...
JASON TRENNERT The market could react if the statement indicates in any way that the tightening cycle is winding do...
SHIGERU KOMATSU The Fed is still on the tightening path. When you get to the bottom line, it's just more solid emplo...
GLENN HABERBUSH A curve inversion will last until the Fed stops tightening. As long is the Fed keeps tightening and ...
JAMES CARON The reaction in the market has a lot to do with the perception that Katrina is a reason for the Fed ...
JANET ENGELS If oil stays where it is, then the economy will slow, and the market will take up some of the Fed ti...
JOE LAVORGNA Overall, in the short term this is not going to deter the Fed from continuing its measured rate tigh...
ALEX BEUZELIN I think they are. I think that the Fed either finished its tightening for this cycle, or it has 25 b...
CHARLES CRANE The market has done part of the job, but this tightening is not yet substantial -- financial conditi...
ANTHONY CRESCENZI There is still principal concern over Fed tightening and we've rallied a tremendous amount since mid...
DENNIS HYNES I don't think the market will push far before the Fed statement. If they remove the sentence implyin...
GAVIN FRIEND![]()
In Kolkata is a temple where the deity worshipped is Amitabh Bachchan. The daily aarti is performed ...
ASHWIN SANGHI There is some speculation the Fed is closer to halting its tightening cycle.
MIKE MALPEDE The reason the dollar is staying strong is because markets have continued to price in more Fed tight...
DANIEL KATZIVE This all but seals the deal on a coming cessation in Fed tightening,
SHERRY COOPER The market is still looking forward to discounting a neutral stance by the Fed.
TERENCE GABRIEL![]()
The market is still looking forward to discounting a neutral stance by the Fed,
TERENCE If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN I'm still looking for places to sell the dollar. We're assuming that the Fed is nearing the end of i...
FIRAS ASKARI 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 bottom line is that as long as equities remain aloft, there is precious little outside of Fed ti...
DOUG PORTER The market is still concerned about the interest rate and whether the Fed is on a possible pause.
IAN STANNARD The data will certainly encourage views of a truncated Fed tightening cycle.
ALAN RUSKIN It confirms that the (Fed) was correct in pausing their tightening cycle at last week's meeting.
STEVEN WOOD The Fed is toward the end of its rate hikes. Equities and bonds got a bid because the Fed talked abo...
JOSEPH LAVORGNA I am still a little bit bearish. The market thinks the U.S. economy is strong. Treasuries are still ...
HIROYUKI YAMADA Today's labor report could not have been more disheartening to those who thought the Fed had ended i...
EUGENIO ALEMAN While the equity market and accounting issues and corporate scandals are weighing on the economy, it...
GERALD COHEN Any additional rate increases would need to be precipitated by higher inflation or above-trend growt...
AMITABH ARORA Our view is that we get above-trend growth and that will cause the Fed to raise rates to 5 percent.
AMITABH ARORA Strong payroll growth raises inflationary concerns.
AMITABH ARORA The market was too sanguine about the Fed moving to the sidelines at the end of the year or under a ...
JOE LIRO I do think people will breathe a sigh of relief when they believe the Fed is done tightening.
FRITZ MEYER I don't think the market is pricing in a big risk of a surprise.
DAVID GREENLAW I think [the stock market] is pricing in some type of earnings recovery but I think the market is pr...
JOE KALINOWSKI We were short-dollar as our core view is that the Fed ended its tightening cycle on Jan. 31.
ASHLEY DAVIES The minutes have fueled the fire for the dollar bears. The Fed is probably close to ending its tight...
JEFF GLADSTEIN If you're not worried that you're pricing it too cheap, you're not pricing it cheap enou...
ROY H. WILLIAMS I think pricing has gotten even more aggressive, interest rates have stayed pretty level and there i...
JENNIFER PIERSON I was in the camp that the Fed would pause, but there is nothing in anything any of the Fed members ...
JOE FRANCOMANO If the Fed is not going to do the heavy lifting, the bond market is going to do it for them.
MIKE RYAN Given the market is looking for another rate hike at the end-March FOMC meeting, it seems likely tha...
ASHLEY DAVIES The market is already pricing in that (the debt upgrade) is coming. That improves the country's (eco...
CARLOS SAMANO In the last couple of weeks, market participants forgot about the idea of a tightening, ... People w...
MARIA FIORINI RAMIREZ Equities, commodities, bonds, and foreign currencies all surged higher on Tuesday on speculation tha...
GREG JENSEN U.S. economic numbers are still doing well, but decelerating. The data are not strong enough to forc...
BRIAN ROSE What we're seeing in terms of currency movements - and it will probably continue at least over the n...
MARC LEVESQUE Last week the indications from the meetings and from some of the Fed speakers was: Yes, we're concer...
KURT BRUNNER The bond market has been pricing in a premium against potential inflation. They've been looking at t...
ROB PALOMBI Fed officials ... likely anticipated some fallout in fixed income markets, ... We believe ... that F...
ETHAN HARRIS Fed officials ... likely anticipated some fallout in fixed income markets. We believe ... that Fed o...
MAURY HARRIS The markets are assuming that the Fed are finished tightening for the year, ... That presumption mig...
SHERRY COOPER The next phase of the market is in M&A activity, and the Fed moving to the sidelines will help with ...
JOE KEATING I think we're going to see a worsening in the inflation data and that's going to keep the Fed on a t...
CARL RICCADONNA The Fed Chairman would be very happy if the bond market did some of the tightening for him. And I th...
ALAN RUSKIN Germany had priced itself out of the market by the late-1990s. It is basically pricing itself back i...
DANIEL GROS We don't expect the Fed to tighten anytime soon. The first tightening move is unlikely to occur befo...
BRUCE STEINBERG The Fed is simply stopping at neutral; it's not shutting down a growth cycle. That's great for the m...
BOB SITKO The Fed comments were fairly unsurprising. They indicated that there is more tightening ahead, and t...
JOSHUA SHAPIRO The rebound indicates the market is not overbought. But the basic market leadership is still in tact...
EUGENE PERONI In today's market, everyone is a Fed-watcher. Hopefully we will not lose any transparency and will l...
CHRISTOPHER LOW CPI data was benign but the data was prior to Hurricane Katrina, ... Still, no one is quite sure abo...
JOSEPH BATTIPAGLIA The bond market is starting to anticipate a more aggressive Fed. The Fed has two problems. One, empl...
BILL LARKIN It fits in with the picture that the labor market is turned, inflation has turned and in a few more ...
BILL CHENEY![]()
It is a yellow light that either it's competition, therefore pricing, or that market growth is not a...
CHUCK JONES If you look back to 1994 when the Fed was hiking rates continuously, after every rate hike the Fed a...
HARVINDER KALIRAI The market is beginning to price the end of the (Fed) rate hiking cycle in.
LARS KRECKEL We're coming to the end of the Fed interest-rate tightening cycle. That usually isn't a bad time to ...
FREDERIC DICKSON Data has been strong enough heading into year-end to prevent market participants from making strong ...
DANIEL KATZIVE It's obviously a very market friendly report. It reduces the chance of the Fed moving in October, bu...
DICK BERNER If inflation were to slow down some more, that would put off the date of any further tightening. But...
HENRY WILLMORE The Federal Reserve has been going through a tightening cycle. Whenever the Fed tightens, whatever f...
HARVEY ROSENBLUM Measured could go away, ... Greenspan wants the yield on the 10-year Treasury to go up because usual...
BILL DAVISON That's still very strong gas pricing.
BRIAN MACKE The market will interpret [those comments] that the bank has gone towards a tightening bias.
CLAUDIO PIRON We're starting to see the savings rate pick up from near historic levels, which is very encouraging....
ANTHONY CHAN The Fed will keep raising rates as an insurance policy to prevent unwanted inflation. We haven't see...
CONRAD DEQUADROS The basis for the pricing of major illness insurance is still based on the number of illnesses, not ...
WANG ZHICHAO The fact that their pricing mechanism is market-related minimizes the risk that a physical shortage ...
TIM EVANS Even though the Fed has tightened, it's not done a whole lot in the way of weakening the housing mar...
BILL MEEHAN Technology is working and part of it is why the rest of the market is not working. The brick-and-mor...
DENNIS MCKECHNIE The dollar will trade with a downward bias. The market is pricing in an ECB rate hike Thursday and s...
DAVE GILMORE Investors remain very cautious. They're holding back, waiting for the Fed. We still have buyers in t...
FRED DICKSON
CRAIG CHAN The market is likely to find enough underpinnings in the FOMC statement to lessen fears of Fed tight...
ANTHONY KARYDAKIS The general profile of consumer spending is still strong. The report shouldn't be enough to change e...
JAY FELDMAN I think he (Greenspan) made it very clear the Fed is still in a tightening mode.
BILL HORNBARGER The bond market took this report as a sign that core inflation may be bottoming and the Fed may stil...
CARY LEAHEY The bond market took this report as a sign that core inflation may be bottoming and the Fed may stil...
CARY LEAHEY The Fed should be cautious about over-tightening and causing too much of a downturn in the housing m...
GLENN HABERBUSH There is basically 100 percent pricing for a tightening in U.S. rates ....
ADAM MYERS It's a rapidly tightening market. If we have a normal winter, there is not enough supply being made ...
DAVID KNAPP For the Fed, I don't think it changes much. It's not weak enough that it would change their measured...
ALAN RUSKIN There's probably not enough indication that the Fed is ready to end (rate increases) to help the sto...
BENJAMIN PACE The Fed Chairman would be very happy if the bond market did some of the tightening for him,
ALAN RUSKIN The Fed still has a tightening bias. It could go up by 50 basis points.
ANDREW CHAVERIAT His testimony is apt to be consistent with the notion that the Fed is still in a tightening mode and...
TONY CRESCENZI I still believe Asian currencies are glaringly undervalued. They will rally when the Fed stops tight...
CHRISTOPHER WOOD The market has been adapting in the last few days to the monetary policy adjustment in Europe and to...
ALBERTO BERNAL
We expect maybe 50 basis points of Fed fund increases between now and December. The market is pricin... LARRY JONES My impression is that the market is correctly anticipating that the Fed is close to being finished w...
JASON TRENNERT The market could react if the statement indicates in any way that the tightening cycle is winding do...
SHIGERU KOMATSU The Fed is still on the tightening path. When you get to the bottom line, it's just more solid emplo...
GLENN HABERBUSH A curve inversion will last until the Fed stops tightening. As long is the Fed keeps tightening and ...
JAMES CARON The reaction in the market has a lot to do with the perception that Katrina is a reason for the Fed ...
JANET ENGELS If oil stays where it is, then the economy will slow, and the market will take up some of the Fed ti...
JOE LAVORGNA Overall, in the short term this is not going to deter the Fed from continuing its measured rate tigh...
ALEX BEUZELIN I think they are. I think that the Fed either finished its tightening for this cycle, or it has 25 b...
CHARLES CRANE The market has done part of the job, but this tightening is not yet substantial -- financial conditi...
ANTHONY CRESCENZI There is still principal concern over Fed tightening and we've rallied a tremendous amount since mid...
DENNIS HYNES I don't think the market will push far before the Fed statement. If they remove the sentence implyin...
GAVIN FRIEND
In Kolkata is a temple where the deity worshipped is Amitabh Bachchan. The daily aarti is performed ... ASHWIN SANGHI There is some speculation the Fed is closer to halting its tightening cycle.
MIKE MALPEDE The reason the dollar is staying strong is because markets have continued to price in more Fed tight...
DANIEL KATZIVE This all but seals the deal on a coming cessation in Fed tightening,
SHERRY COOPER The market is still looking forward to discounting a neutral stance by the Fed.
TERENCE GABRIEL
The market is still looking forward to discounting a neutral stance by the Fed, TERENCE If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN I'm still looking for places to sell the dollar. We're assuming that the Fed is nearing the end of i...
FIRAS ASKARI 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 bottom line is that as long as equities remain aloft, there is precious little outside of Fed ti...
DOUG PORTER The market is still concerned about the interest rate and whether the Fed is on a possible pause.
IAN STANNARD The data will certainly encourage views of a truncated Fed tightening cycle.
ALAN RUSKIN It confirms that the (Fed) was correct in pausing their tightening cycle at last week's meeting.
STEVEN WOOD The Fed is toward the end of its rate hikes. Equities and bonds got a bid because the Fed talked abo...
JOSEPH LAVORGNA I am still a little bit bearish. The market thinks the U.S. economy is strong. Treasuries are still ...
HIROYUKI YAMADA Today's labor report could not have been more disheartening to those who thought the Fed had ended i...
EUGENIO ALEMAN While the equity market and accounting issues and corporate scandals are weighing on the economy, it...
GERALD COHEN Any additional rate increases would need to be precipitated by higher inflation or above-trend growt...
AMITABH ARORA Our view is that we get above-trend growth and that will cause the Fed to raise rates to 5 percent.
AMITABH ARORA Strong payroll growth raises inflationary concerns.
AMITABH ARORA The market was too sanguine about the Fed moving to the sidelines at the end of the year or under a ...
JOE LIRO I do think people will breathe a sigh of relief when they believe the Fed is done tightening.
FRITZ MEYER I don't think the market is pricing in a big risk of a surprise.
DAVID GREENLAW I think [the stock market] is pricing in some type of earnings recovery but I think the market is pr...
JOE KALINOWSKI We were short-dollar as our core view is that the Fed ended its tightening cycle on Jan. 31.
ASHLEY DAVIES The minutes have fueled the fire for the dollar bears. The Fed is probably close to ending its tight...
JEFF GLADSTEIN If you're not worried that you're pricing it too cheap, you're not pricing it cheap enou...
ROY H. WILLIAMS I think pricing has gotten even more aggressive, interest rates have stayed pretty level and there i...
JENNIFER PIERSON I was in the camp that the Fed would pause, but there is nothing in anything any of the Fed members ...
JOE FRANCOMANO If the Fed is not going to do the heavy lifting, the bond market is going to do it for them.
MIKE RYAN Given the market is looking for another rate hike at the end-March FOMC meeting, it seems likely tha...
ASHLEY DAVIES The market is already pricing in that (the debt upgrade) is coming. That improves the country's (eco...
CARLOS SAMANO In the last couple of weeks, market participants forgot about the idea of a tightening, ... People w...
MARIA FIORINI RAMIREZ Equities, commodities, bonds, and foreign currencies all surged higher on Tuesday on speculation tha...
GREG JENSEN U.S. economic numbers are still doing well, but decelerating. The data are not strong enough to forc...
BRIAN ROSE What we're seeing in terms of currency movements - and it will probably continue at least over the n...
MARC LEVESQUE Last week the indications from the meetings and from some of the Fed speakers was: Yes, we're concer...
KURT BRUNNER The bond market has been pricing in a premium against potential inflation. They've been looking at t...
ROB PALOMBI Fed officials ... likely anticipated some fallout in fixed income markets, ... We believe ... that F...
ETHAN HARRIS Fed officials ... likely anticipated some fallout in fixed income markets. We believe ... that Fed o...
MAURY HARRIS The markets are assuming that the Fed are finished tightening for the year, ... That presumption mig...
SHERRY COOPER The next phase of the market is in M&A activity, and the Fed moving to the sidelines will help with ...
JOE KEATING I think we're going to see a worsening in the inflation data and that's going to keep the Fed on a t...
CARL RICCADONNA The Fed Chairman would be very happy if the bond market did some of the tightening for him. And I th...
ALAN RUSKIN Germany had priced itself out of the market by the late-1990s. It is basically pricing itself back i...
DANIEL GROS We don't expect the Fed to tighten anytime soon. The first tightening move is unlikely to occur befo...
BRUCE STEINBERG The Fed is simply stopping at neutral; it's not shutting down a growth cycle. That's great for the m...
BOB SITKO The Fed comments were fairly unsurprising. They indicated that there is more tightening ahead, and t...
JOSHUA SHAPIRO The rebound indicates the market is not overbought. But the basic market leadership is still in tact...
EUGENE PERONI In today's market, everyone is a Fed-watcher. Hopefully we will not lose any transparency and will l...
CHRISTOPHER LOW CPI data was benign but the data was prior to Hurricane Katrina, ... Still, no one is quite sure abo...
JOSEPH BATTIPAGLIA The bond market is starting to anticipate a more aggressive Fed. The Fed has two problems. One, empl...
BILL LARKIN It fits in with the picture that the labor market is turned, inflation has turned and in a few more ...
BILL CHENEY
It is a yellow light that either it's competition, therefore pricing, or that market growth is not a... CHUCK JONES If you look back to 1994 when the Fed was hiking rates continuously, after every rate hike the Fed a...
HARVINDER KALIRAI The market is beginning to price the end of the (Fed) rate hiking cycle in.
LARS KRECKEL We're coming to the end of the Fed interest-rate tightening cycle. That usually isn't a bad time to ...
FREDERIC DICKSON Data has been strong enough heading into year-end to prevent market participants from making strong ...
DANIEL KATZIVE It's obviously a very market friendly report. It reduces the chance of the Fed moving in October, bu...
DICK BERNER If inflation were to slow down some more, that would put off the date of any further tightening. But...
HENRY WILLMORE The Federal Reserve has been going through a tightening cycle. Whenever the Fed tightens, whatever f...
HARVEY ROSENBLUM Measured could go away, ... Greenspan wants the yield on the 10-year Treasury to go up because usual...
BILL DAVISON That's still very strong gas pricing.
BRIAN MACKE The market will interpret [those comments] that the bank has gone towards a tightening bias.
CLAUDIO PIRON We're starting to see the savings rate pick up from near historic levels, which is very encouraging....
ANTHONY CHAN The Fed will keep raising rates as an insurance policy to prevent unwanted inflation. We haven't see...
CONRAD DEQUADROS The basis for the pricing of major illness insurance is still based on the number of illnesses, not ...
WANG ZHICHAO The fact that their pricing mechanism is market-related minimizes the risk that a physical shortage ...
TIM EVANS Even though the Fed has tightened, it's not done a whole lot in the way of weakening the housing mar...
BILL MEEHAN Technology is working and part of it is why the rest of the market is not working. The brick-and-mor...
DENNIS MCKECHNIE The dollar will trade with a downward bias. The market is pricing in an ECB rate hike Thursday and s...
DAVE GILMORE Investors remain very cautious. They're holding back, waiting for the Fed. We still have buyers in t...
FRED DICKSON
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