Showing posts with label but investors expect Fed Chair to stay the course. Show all posts
Showing posts with label but investors expect Fed Chair to stay the course. Show all posts

Saturday, July 21, 2018


By Market Watch, July 20, 2018

A modest knee-jerk reaction aside, investors appear confident President Donald Trump’s criticism of Federal Reserve rate increases won’t alter the central bank’s policy path. But it is possible that Fed Chairman Jerome Powell’s job just got a lot harder.

“It’s not that I don’t take it seriously, but I think there may be more bluster than an actual intention to more meaningfully change policy,” said Lara Rhame, chief U.S. economist at FS Investments, in an interview.