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Bloomberg Surveillance

Instant Reaction: Jay Powell on Fed Policy

Bloomberg Surveillance

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🗓️ 20 September 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Bloomberg's Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec discuss remarks from Fed Chair Jay Powell following the Federal Reserve's latest policy decision. 

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This is the sixth meeting of the FOMC. It's done, Tim. It is done. And we just wrapped up,

1:07.2

listening to FedShare, J Powell, talking about the decision and the economy and what's

1:11.7

to come. Well, you know what, Carol? The Fed leaves rates unchanged, signals one more rate hike this

1:17.0

year. Powell says Central Bank to proceed carefully on a rate path.

1:19.9

Carefully. It was like a drinking game every time he said careful or carefully.

1:23.6

I hope you weren't drinking during that because you would be drinking a lot. And then to your treasury yields, they went flat after that initial surge. Unbelievable. All right, so let's get to it. I will say the Fed chief saying that there's so much uncertainty around the timing of rate cuts. And that was something I felt like in the press conference that reporters were trying to pin him down to and he would not be pinned, although it does

1:44.9

feel like higher for longer. All right. So let's get to it. Let's get some analysis because we did get an

1:49.4

upbeat, I should say, an update on those economic projections from the Federal Reserve. And that was

1:54.9

certainly something we were all focused on. What we have with us or who we have with us, a former Bloomberg colleague, Yelaina Shalai,

2:02.1

Eva, senior U.S. economist at B&P Paribati on Zoom in New York City, and then Bloomberg

2:06.3

economics, U.S. economist, Stuart Paul, he's here in our Bloomberg Interactive Broker

2:11.4

Studio. Stuart, I do want to start with you. What are or were the key points of today's

2:17.0

decision and what Jay Powell chose to stress

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