by Ryan Littlestone | July 27th, 2022, 14:43:45 | Central Banks, Fed, FOMC
Today is all about the Fed’s rate flight path, not today’s hike itself It will be a surpsise if they go anything different to 75bps but that risk is very low. What will be in focus is the weakening data and it’s effect on the Fed’s rate path....
by Ryan Littlestone | November 3rd, 2021, 10:57:38 | Central Banks, Fed, FOMC
Some final thoughts for today’s FOMC As you might expect, our chatrooms this past week has been full of central bank talk and who might do what and when, and now attention has turned to the Fed. I’ll start by repeating that I don’t think the taper is...
by Ryan Littlestone | September 22nd, 2021, 15:34:57 | News, Technical Analysis
Trading the Fed FOMC today is all about whether any news sets us up for a test of any of the well worn ranges The window for Powell making excuses to not taper, or announce a taper is growing smaller and so price reaction risk is growing. The longer he leaves a taper...
by Ryan Littlestone | August 3rd, 2021, 11:40:42 | News
Market in a tizzy over taper There shouldn’t be many people in the market now who don’t think a taper is coming. It’s been talked about so much, there’s next to no expectation left of it happening. Yes, everyone is still throwing darts at the...
by Ryan Littlestone | June 25th, 2021, 09:55:35 | Research
Fixed Income Research & Macro Strategy (FIRMS) – 4X Global Research The Federal Reserve at its policy meeting on 16th June, whether inadvertently or by design, reset financial markets’ clocks. The dust has since settled somewhat, with US short-end and...
