Dollar in Flux Ahead of FOMC Decision
Bloomberg Surveillance
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🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Bloomberg Surveillance hosted by Tom Keene & Paul Sweeney
Wednesday, January 28th, 2026
Featuring:
1) Constance Hunter, Chief Economist at EIU, shares her expectations for today's FOMC rate decision.
2) Stuart Kaiser, Head of US Equity Trading Strategy at Citi, discusses how small cap outperformance has evolved into an economic growth trade in 2026.
3) Win Thin, Chief Economist at Bank of Nassau & Ira Jersey, Chief US Interest Rates Strategist for Bloomberg Intelligence, join for an extended conversation on the state of the American economy.
4) Saleha Mohsin, Bloomberg News Senior Washington Correspondent, on recent dollar volatility and President Trump's looming Fed chair pick.
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| 0:42.4 | Constance Hunter with us, EIU right now. |
| 0:44.2 | It really gets started on the Fed decides. |
| 0:45.8 | We'll do it at 130. |
| 0:47.1 | Constance, I'm going to cut to the chase. |
| 0:49.2 | There's actual growth, real GDP. |
| 0:52.0 | You overlay that with inflation, and that's the present, the current nominal GDP, |
| 0:57.1 | the British say money GDP, which is even more confusing. I have two stories for Jerome Powell. |
| 1:03.4 | I have nominal GDP, which is China like 5.4%, 6%, dare I say 7%, and I got a profession saying, no, that's not true. |
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