Monday, November 23, 2015

Fed Vice Chair Fischer Signals Rate Hike

They are pouring it on and alerting everyone a rate hike is coming. The only thing stopping them now will be an extremely bad piece of economic data or a crash in a market somewhere, like the mini-crash in China that occurred just before the September FOMC meeting.

Fed Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer in prepared remarks for a conference sponsored by the San Francisco Fed said last week Thursday that "some major central banks" could move away from near-zero interest rate policy "in the relatively near future."

"We have done everything we can to avoid surprising the markets and governments when we move."

The entire speech in which the above comments are buried is here.

-RW

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