NO. The FED mandate is for stable prices and maximum employment. Raising interest rates is a tool to control inflation, which was nil -- ergo, no raising of rates. As well, raising of rates would not assist the full employment mandate -- while UNemployment had/has been at historic lows, the _not_in_the_workforce component continued to shrink -- indicating more people drawn into the work force: A Good Thing. Ergo, no raising of rates.That fed policy is long long long gone. If the fed policy was mostly concerned about the economy they would have had rates well above 6-7%.
Haaaaa....
How many times have we heard this
Enough of these garbage headlines that mean absolutely nothing.
Dow set for strong open after China says it hopes to meet halfway on trade issues
PUBLISHED WED, AUG
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/14/dow...ggered-by-bond-recession-signal-drags-on.html
That didn't even last half a day.
Even worst... ECB came out and said they were preparing to start buying 50 Billion euro a month of bonds, entire EU in red, actually moved up then back down. ECB saying we are restarting QE and algo's didn't give a fuck, you know there is serious trouble in Euro Markets. ECB fucked up, they shoulda let credit snap first then QE, now they will be buying bonds while credit snaps, effectively removing the punch for support... Entire world will be depending on Fed QE5 for a boost
By early next week, EU banking index will be at levels last seen since the 80s when Berlin Wall saga was playing out, and credit markets didn't snap yet!!!