The Federal Open Market Committee meetings represent critical junctures where monetary policy decisions directly impact employment outcomes and economic stability. Our team closely analyzes meeting statements, press conferences, dot plots, and economic projections to assess the Fed's approach to its dual mandate of maximum employment and price stability.
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Note: Subscribers to MacroSuite will receive our FOMC preview a week early, at the beginning of the blackout period before each FOMC meeting. What To Expect: The Fed has signaled a hold on interest rates not just in June, but throughout the summer. With risks to the inflation trajectory on
The uncertainty over tariffs put inflation targeting’s weakness on display.
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The Fed faces risk from multiple directions and is experiencing a high level of uncertainty. Our baseline scenario sees the hawks mostly unchanged and the doves to consolidate towards two cuts for 2025.
If you enjoy our content and would like to support our work, we offer a premium, high-frequency macro research service, Macro Suite. If you’re interested in gaining access, please feel free to reach out to us here for more information. What To Expect Very little. The Fed signaled a
If there’s one takeaway from this meeting, it’s that the Committee wants to position themselves much more cautiously on the inflation outlook, but the Fed is just a couple of bad labor market prints from having to put more cuts back on the table.
Now that rate normalization is about to move into the next, slower phase, it is important that they do not predetermine the scale of normalization.
After the excitement at the September meeting, November is going to be relatively less exciting.