Federal Reserve Holds Policy Steady, but Indicates More Dovish 2024
Market participants will look to Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s post-meeting press conference for additional signs about the direction of future policy.
Market participants will look to Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s post-meeting press conference for additional signs about the direction of future policy.
Investors will monitor Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s press conference Wednesday for signs of potential rate cuts next year.
Traders expect the Fed to cut rates by 100 basis points next year, weakening the dollar and incentivizing risk-taking in crypto and traditional markets.
The minutes of the Nov. 1 Fed meeting may be outdated, given the post-meeting softness in economic veri and resulting expectations for renewed interest-rate cuts in 2024.
Ether (ETH) lost 0.5%, while dogecoin (DOGE) and solana (SOL) slumped as much as 5% as traders likely took profits.
Vice Chairman Michael Barr argued that the Fed needs regulatory and enforcement authority over stablecoin issuers – a point of contention in the debate over legislation.
The Federal Reserve pulled no surprises on Wednesay as it kept policy on hold but promised a continued focus on bringing inflation to heel.
Market participants will now turn to Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s post-meeting press conference to glean insight into the future path of U.S. central bank policy.
The 2019 playbook offers a bullish view for bitcoin as Fed officials signal pause in the rate hike cycle.
The Federal Reserve’s inspector general studied the bank’s collapse and concluded the Fed’s examiners failed to quickly flag its problems and managers were “ineffective.”