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DOMINIC KONSTAM There's still an expectation that the Fed will raise rates another quarter-point.
ANDY WHITAKER I think (Fed Chairman) Alan Greenspan has made it all but official, we'll get another rate cut in Ju...
WAYNE AYERS We don't expect another rate cut ..., but there is still the risk that rates might be cut again at s...
CARSTEN FRITSCH In January I placed the likelihood of a Federal Reserve Rate hike in May at less than 10 percent. I ...
ERNIE GOSS We now believe that the first Fed rate hike will not come until December, and we continue to worry t...
JOE ABATE It is going to be a Fed week. The market is 100 percent in sync with a quarter of a percentage point...
ENRIQUE ALVAREZ The question is: Will we get to a 4.25 percent fed funds rate in December?. If we do, then two-year ...
ERIC HILLER With people convinced the Fed will go again in March, fed funds will be up at 4.75 percent. So why b...
FRANK HSU Everyone knew the Fed was going to come in and do something sooner or later, ... We're no longer spe...
JOHN MANLEY Markets are confident that the Fed will raise rates another 25 basis points at the Federal Open Mark...
ANN OWEN It gives the Federal Reserve more leeway to cut rates. But I don't believe that a BOJ rate cut means...
JOHN LONSKI It gives the Federal Reserve more leeway to cut rates, ... But I don't believe that a BOJ rate cut m...
JOHN LONSKI Yes, Greenspan does admit the obvious, that the real federal funds rate has risen considerably, but ...
ANTHONY CHAN Now it looks like the Fed might raise rates at the January meeting, and that might be it.
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These are horrendous numbers that put the equation in stark relief for the Fed. They have to cut rat...
DAVID BROWN 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 Those who expect further rate hikes can note that the real Fed Funds rate has yet to reach at least ...
ASHRAF LAIDI It (the jobless rate) is probably at or slightly below the level the Fed is thinking is full employm...
ELISABETH DENISON Simply because the Fed is maintaining an accommodative monetary policy position doesn't mean they ke...
MIKE RYAN The easing the Fed has already done has had a focused and limited effect, mainly on sales of homes a...
EDWARD MCKELVEY If anyone was still expecting a Fed rate cut before, they're certainly going to throw that out the w...
COREY REDFIELD At the margin they reinforced our growing sense that Fed tightening might stop before the federal fu...
ED MCKELVEY We are definitely getting another rate cut.
LARA RHAME The Fed fund futures are rallying higher and are factoring in a 75 percent chance of a 25 basis poin...
BILL HORNBARGER The market has to make its mind up what the Fed rate cut means.
JANE FOLEY It was a respectable day. But after the (Fed) decision tomorrow, I think we can do better. I think t...
LARRY WACHTEL Investors will be looking for clues for interest rate cuts. A U.K. rate cut is expected in February,...
JAMES STEWART This report underscores or emphasizes that the Fed would be quite well justified for easing policy a...
PAUL CHRISTOPHER We believe that the US Fed will make its final rate hike in the current cycle at the Jan 31 FOMC mee...
DAISUKE UNO A cut...won't affect the 30-year fixed mortgage rate at all. According to Freddie Mac, the 30-year f...
LAWRENCE YUN The Fed will continue to raise interest rates. We think they will do so twice more.
KATHLEEN STEPHANSEN This good news broke expectations that the Fed will raise rates at its next meeting.
FABIO LARA [Overall, following the statement,] the market is fairly clear that the Fed will keep raising rates ...
JEFF KLEINTOP Longer-term rates will not rise dramatically as long as the Fed keeps the short-term policy rate at ...
DAVID KOTOK The Fed cut 100 basis points (one percentage point) in January and we've got another 50 under our be...
BRYAN PISKOROWSKI Some investors are staying at the sidelines as uncertainties linger over whether the Fed would surpr...
HERBERT LAU The short-term interest-rate level at 4.25 on fed funds provides mortgage rates which definitely won...
KIT JUCKES These numbers give the Fed license to cut rates as much as necessary.
ANTHONY CHAN Bad news can be good news for equities if the bad news causes the Fed to cut aggressively.
CHRISTINE CALLIES We're looking at another 25 percent (cut) next year.
DAN WOLFE 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 Recent economic indicators show a lackluster economic climate. And that led to the surprise 50-basis...
FRANK NOTHAFT We are becoming increasingly nervous about our call for a 25 basis point rate cut at the February .....
ALAN CASTLE If you look at Fed funds futures for December, they are indicating that the Fed will take a breather...
ARTHUR HOGAN The stock is really looking ahead to better times down the road. We're expecting of course a Fed rat...
JAMES SCHMIDT I still think (the Fed) will cut 50 basis points next week.
BILL HORNBARGER If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... We continue to see difficulties for the nation's factories. This is a figure that continues to argue...
KEVIN FLANAGAN Another quarter-point rate hike is baked in the cake. But we are near the end.
DAVID JONES The market had already priced in a 50-basis-point cut by the Fed.
FRANCISCO RIVERO There is no operating manual that says what a neutral fed funds rate is, but the Fed knows that it's...
MARK VITNER I think next week's meeting will be absolutely crucial. If the half-point rate cut is not materializ...
ELVIS PICARDO If the core rate doesn't get out of hand and growth comes in moderate, at some point fairly soon the...
PATRICK FEARON It seems we've had more than enough weak economic data to conclude the Fed will cut rates on June 27...
BILL MEEHAN The 1.9 percent December year-over-year rise in the core personal consumption expenditure index refl...
PATRICK FEARON Given the market is looking for another rate hike at the end-March FOMC meeting, it seems likely tha...
ASHLEY DAVIES As long as housing prices don't go down, consumers have more equity they can borrow against. If mort...
PETER MORICI The overall PMI shows we are still in rate cut territory. But the PMI has been below this (current) ...
CHRIS WILLIAMSON There's increased speculation that the Fed will be cutting interest rates between meetings.
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BILL GROSS There were many years where the Fed Funds rate was as low as 1 percent and interest rates on savings...
LAURA BRUCE Every new Fed chair always raises interest rates at the first meeting. It's an ego thing. Beyond tha...
DAN WARD There's hope about the economy, there's faith in the leadership, corporate profits were good in the ...
BILL ROE Ahead of the Fed meeting, you can't expand your positions aggressively.
HIDENORI KATO No one should interpret the remarks as being a prelude for the Federal Reserve raising the Fed funds...
WAYNE ANGELL We are expecting the Treasury market to continue to weaken in the next few months. There are no sign...
YASUTOSHI NAGAI Nobody knows when the Fed is going to quit raising rates. Once the market feels comfortable with tha...
EDWARD HEMMELGARN The implications are a bit worrying for spreads, particularly for the corporate market. The inversio...
DAVID GOLDMAN Given the data we've seen, one can't rule out a 50 basis point (one-half percentage point) hike. We'...
BILL MEEHAN What I think this means is that the Fed waited maybe for the stock market to go up a little and then...
JOSEPH LAVORGNA Our official forecast is they'll cut them(rates) twice. They'll cut them in the first quarter, they'...
JOHN MANLEY Anticipation of a 25-basis-point rate cut pushed mortgage rates downward in this week's survey, and ...
FRANK NOTHAFT The second quarter at this point looks like it's going to come in, perhaps, at 1.5 to 2 percent (rea...
BILL KIRBY The second quarter at this point looks like it's going to come in, perhaps, at 1.5 to 2 percent (rea...
BILL KIRBY The Fed sees the possibility of labor markets becoming tight, which could push up costs at some poin...
GLENN HABERBUSH We're back to expecting a rate cut on December 11. Meyer changed people's thinking by essentially sa...
CHRIS RUPKEY It really reinforces the view that the Fed will continue to hike rates.
CHARMAINE BUSKAS We think the Fed will keep going to 5 percent by May.
JUNYA TANASE The (stock) market is saying gee, we were kind of hoping the Fed would say that the economy's doing ...
JAMES GRIFFIN If the Fed continues to raise rates, adjustable-rate mortgages will continue to get pinched. That's ...
DANIEL JESTER Congress has decided to cut funding for Head Start programs. Just last month we received a one perce...
BARBARA HODGES Our view is that we get above-trend growth and that will cause the Fed to raise rates to 5 percent.
AMITABH ARORA This is not something that Fed officials want to see, and there may be a serious discussion within t...
JEFF THREDGOLD He has definitely left the door open for further easing. 'Mixed' isn't good enough for the Fed. so I...
ANN HURLEY The stock market reaction, if they cut a quarter point, probably will be as much a yawn as anything ...
DAVID BLITZER The key number for the Fed was actually the unemployment rate and it went down and has been declinin...
KURT KARL I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES My take is that the Fed will continue to raise overnight rates until it feels it has moved from a st...
SHERRY COOPER The market is closely watching if there are any other comments on the US economy or interest rate hi...
MASAMICHI KOIKE It's a mixed picture, ... If they cut it by a quarter point, that might be good. Anything greater th...
MICHAEL DAVIES The world assumes the Fed will raise the rates by a quarter percentage point, that's a non-event. It...
JACK ABLIN We anticipate the Fed will continue to raise rates at least at the next two meetings. The report doe...
DAVID GLOCKE Not even the most dovish of forecasters expects interest rates to be cut at Thursday's meeting.
ALAN CLARKE I think what people will see is that commentary from Fed officials will sound almost identical to th...
ETHAN HARRIS Today's inflation figures will reinforce the belief that the Fed only has one or two more interest-r...
PAUL ASHWORTH While the fourth quarter GDP data and the relatively healthy mix of the components further diminishe...
HOWARD ARCHER We were expecting the worst and I think it's meeting those expectations for us at this point.
DAN PACKER At present there is a probability of just under 70 percent of the Fed raising interest rates to 5.0 ...
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DOMINIC KONSTAM There's still an expectation that the Fed will raise rates another quarter-point.
ANDY WHITAKER I think (Fed Chairman) Alan Greenspan has made it all but official, we'll get another rate cut in Ju...
WAYNE AYERS We don't expect another rate cut ..., but there is still the risk that rates might be cut again at s...
CARSTEN FRITSCH In January I placed the likelihood of a Federal Reserve Rate hike in May at less than 10 percent. I ...
ERNIE GOSS We now believe that the first Fed rate hike will not come until December, and we continue to worry t...
JOE ABATE It is going to be a Fed week. The market is 100 percent in sync with a quarter of a percentage point...
ENRIQUE ALVAREZ The question is: Will we get to a 4.25 percent fed funds rate in December?. If we do, then two-year ...
ERIC HILLER With people convinced the Fed will go again in March, fed funds will be up at 4.75 percent. So why b...
FRANK HSU Everyone knew the Fed was going to come in and do something sooner or later, ... We're no longer spe...
JOHN MANLEY Markets are confident that the Fed will raise rates another 25 basis points at the Federal Open Mark...
ANN OWEN It gives the Federal Reserve more leeway to cut rates. But I don't believe that a BOJ rate cut means...
JOHN LONSKI It gives the Federal Reserve more leeway to cut rates, ... But I don't believe that a BOJ rate cut m...
JOHN LONSKI Yes, Greenspan does admit the obvious, that the real federal funds rate has risen considerably, but ...
ANTHONY CHAN Now it looks like the Fed might raise rates at the January meeting, and that might be it.
ALFRED KUGEL
These are horrendous numbers that put the equation in stark relief for the Fed. They have to cut rat... DAVID BROWN 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 Those who expect further rate hikes can note that the real Fed Funds rate has yet to reach at least ...
ASHRAF LAIDI It (the jobless rate) is probably at or slightly below the level the Fed is thinking is full employm...
ELISABETH DENISON Simply because the Fed is maintaining an accommodative monetary policy position doesn't mean they ke...
MIKE RYAN The easing the Fed has already done has had a focused and limited effect, mainly on sales of homes a...
EDWARD MCKELVEY If anyone was still expecting a Fed rate cut before, they're certainly going to throw that out the w...
COREY REDFIELD At the margin they reinforced our growing sense that Fed tightening might stop before the federal fu...
ED MCKELVEY We are definitely getting another rate cut.
LARA RHAME The Fed fund futures are rallying higher and are factoring in a 75 percent chance of a 25 basis poin...
BILL HORNBARGER The market has to make its mind up what the Fed rate cut means.
JANE FOLEY It was a respectable day. But after the (Fed) decision tomorrow, I think we can do better. I think t...
LARRY WACHTEL Investors will be looking for clues for interest rate cuts. A U.K. rate cut is expected in February,...
JAMES STEWART This report underscores or emphasizes that the Fed would be quite well justified for easing policy a...
PAUL CHRISTOPHER We believe that the US Fed will make its final rate hike in the current cycle at the Jan 31 FOMC mee...
DAISUKE UNO A cut...won't affect the 30-year fixed mortgage rate at all. According to Freddie Mac, the 30-year f...
LAWRENCE YUN The Fed will continue to raise interest rates. We think they will do so twice more.
KATHLEEN STEPHANSEN This good news broke expectations that the Fed will raise rates at its next meeting.
FABIO LARA [Overall, following the statement,] the market is fairly clear that the Fed will keep raising rates ...
JEFF KLEINTOP Longer-term rates will not rise dramatically as long as the Fed keeps the short-term policy rate at ...
DAVID KOTOK The Fed cut 100 basis points (one percentage point) in January and we've got another 50 under our be...
BRYAN PISKOROWSKI Some investors are staying at the sidelines as uncertainties linger over whether the Fed would surpr...
HERBERT LAU The short-term interest-rate level at 4.25 on fed funds provides mortgage rates which definitely won...
KIT JUCKES These numbers give the Fed license to cut rates as much as necessary.
ANTHONY CHAN Bad news can be good news for equities if the bad news causes the Fed to cut aggressively.
CHRISTINE CALLIES We're looking at another 25 percent (cut) next year.
DAN WOLFE 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 Recent economic indicators show a lackluster economic climate. And that led to the surprise 50-basis...
FRANK NOTHAFT We are becoming increasingly nervous about our call for a 25 basis point rate cut at the February .....
ALAN CASTLE If you look at Fed funds futures for December, they are indicating that the Fed will take a breather...
ARTHUR HOGAN The stock is really looking ahead to better times down the road. We're expecting of course a Fed rat...
JAMES SCHMIDT I still think (the Fed) will cut 50 basis points next week.
BILL HORNBARGER If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... We continue to see difficulties for the nation's factories. This is a figure that continues to argue...
KEVIN FLANAGAN Another quarter-point rate hike is baked in the cake. But we are near the end.
DAVID JONES The market had already priced in a 50-basis-point cut by the Fed.
FRANCISCO RIVERO There is no operating manual that says what a neutral fed funds rate is, but the Fed knows that it's...
MARK VITNER I think next week's meeting will be absolutely crucial. If the half-point rate cut is not materializ...
ELVIS PICARDO If the core rate doesn't get out of hand and growth comes in moderate, at some point fairly soon the...
PATRICK FEARON It seems we've had more than enough weak economic data to conclude the Fed will cut rates on June 27...
BILL MEEHAN The 1.9 percent December year-over-year rise in the core personal consumption expenditure index refl...
PATRICK FEARON Given the market is looking for another rate hike at the end-March FOMC meeting, it seems likely tha...
ASHLEY DAVIES As long as housing prices don't go down, consumers have more equity they can borrow against. If mort...
PETER MORICI The overall PMI shows we are still in rate cut territory. But the PMI has been below this (current) ...
CHRIS WILLIAMSON There's increased speculation that the Fed will be cutting interest rates between meetings.
CHUCK CARLSON
It's going to be difficult to stimulate the real economy in the U.S. at a faster rate than 2 per... BILL GROSS There were many years where the Fed Funds rate was as low as 1 percent and interest rates on savings...
LAURA BRUCE Every new Fed chair always raises interest rates at the first meeting. It's an ego thing. Beyond tha...
DAN WARD There's hope about the economy, there's faith in the leadership, corporate profits were good in the ...
BILL ROE Ahead of the Fed meeting, you can't expand your positions aggressively.
HIDENORI KATO No one should interpret the remarks as being a prelude for the Federal Reserve raising the Fed funds...
WAYNE ANGELL We are expecting the Treasury market to continue to weaken in the next few months. There are no sign...
YASUTOSHI NAGAI Nobody knows when the Fed is going to quit raising rates. Once the market feels comfortable with tha...
EDWARD HEMMELGARN The implications are a bit worrying for spreads, particularly for the corporate market. The inversio...
DAVID GOLDMAN Given the data we've seen, one can't rule out a 50 basis point (one-half percentage point) hike. We'...
BILL MEEHAN What I think this means is that the Fed waited maybe for the stock market to go up a little and then...
JOSEPH LAVORGNA Our official forecast is they'll cut them(rates) twice. They'll cut them in the first quarter, they'...
JOHN MANLEY Anticipation of a 25-basis-point rate cut pushed mortgage rates downward in this week's survey, and ...
FRANK NOTHAFT The second quarter at this point looks like it's going to come in, perhaps, at 1.5 to 2 percent (rea...
BILL KIRBY The second quarter at this point looks like it's going to come in, perhaps, at 1.5 to 2 percent (rea...
BILL KIRBY The Fed sees the possibility of labor markets becoming tight, which could push up costs at some poin...
GLENN HABERBUSH We're back to expecting a rate cut on December 11. Meyer changed people's thinking by essentially sa...
CHRIS RUPKEY It really reinforces the view that the Fed will continue to hike rates.
CHARMAINE BUSKAS We think the Fed will keep going to 5 percent by May.
JUNYA TANASE The (stock) market is saying gee, we were kind of hoping the Fed would say that the economy's doing ...
JAMES GRIFFIN If the Fed continues to raise rates, adjustable-rate mortgages will continue to get pinched. That's ...
DANIEL JESTER Congress has decided to cut funding for Head Start programs. Just last month we received a one perce...
BARBARA HODGES Our view is that we get above-trend growth and that will cause the Fed to raise rates to 5 percent.
AMITABH ARORA This is not something that Fed officials want to see, and there may be a serious discussion within t...
JEFF THREDGOLD He has definitely left the door open for further easing. 'Mixed' isn't good enough for the Fed. so I...
ANN HURLEY The stock market reaction, if they cut a quarter point, probably will be as much a yawn as anything ...
DAVID BLITZER The key number for the Fed was actually the unemployment rate and it went down and has been declinin...
KURT KARL I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES My take is that the Fed will continue to raise overnight rates until it feels it has moved from a st...
SHERRY COOPER The market is closely watching if there are any other comments on the US economy or interest rate hi...
MASAMICHI KOIKE It's a mixed picture, ... If they cut it by a quarter point, that might be good. Anything greater th...
MICHAEL DAVIES The world assumes the Fed will raise the rates by a quarter percentage point, that's a non-event. It...
JACK ABLIN We anticipate the Fed will continue to raise rates at least at the next two meetings. The report doe...
DAVID GLOCKE Not even the most dovish of forecasters expects interest rates to be cut at Thursday's meeting.
ALAN CLARKE I think what people will see is that commentary from Fed officials will sound almost identical to th...
ETHAN HARRIS Today's inflation figures will reinforce the belief that the Fed only has one or two more interest-r...
PAUL ASHWORTH While the fourth quarter GDP data and the relatively healthy mix of the components further diminishe...
HOWARD ARCHER We were expecting the worst and I think it's meeting those expectations for us at this point.
DAN PACKER At present there is a probability of just under 70 percent of the Fed raising interest rates to 5.0 ...
GAVIN FRIEND
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