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Powell Signals Fed to Keep Buying Bonds Even as Outlook Improves

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Fed chief plays down concerns about inflation, rising yields Powell says U.S. economy could expand by 6% this year Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell signaled that the central bank was nowhere ...

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·2021-03-01
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·2021-02-24
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·2021-02-24
New infinity added to the current 2
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LUKIE
·2021-02-24
On d Dot Bro Powell. This strict following of near Zero interest n confidence on d control growth of employment n inflation will definitely helps to calm d market. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
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·2021-02-24
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·2021-02-24
Have faith
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·2021-02-24
Hope the market recovers and we start to see more green again
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·2021-02-24
Keep faith never loss
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braddoo
·2021-02-24
Wait and see for more inflation
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Zepth
·2021-02-24
Inflation concern + market will grow 6% = us market crash 20% [思考]
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Even with recent weakness, though, the S&P 500 index is still up more than 70% from lows struck last March.\nPowell said he didn’t have an opinion on whether that constituted an equity market bubble, noting that there were opinions expressed on both sides of that proposition. “No one can really identify” a bubble, he said.\nPowell allowed that loose monetary policy has played a role in pushing up asset prices. But he said that other forces were also at play, including expectations of faster economic growth.\n“While we should not underestimate the challenges we currently face, developments point to an improved outlook for later this year,” Powell said. “In particular, ongoing progress in vaccinations should help speed the return to normal activities.”\nIn response to a question, the Fed chair said growth could come in this year at 6%. The economy contracted by 2.5% last year.\nThe economy started 2021 on a strong note, as retail sales and factory output accelerated. In the wake of the firmer data, Bloomberg Economics last week boosted its 2021 growth forecast to 4.6% from 3.5% and said that could rise toward 6%-7% if Biden’s $1.9 trillion aid package is enacted.\n\n What Bloomberg Economics Says...\n\n\n Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s prepared remarks before the Senate Banking Committee showed little if any deviation from the tone of recent public statements. But “no news” is news in and of itself because it shows the Fed to be unwavering in its policy stance, despite rising Treasury yields and an improving tone in much of the economic data.\n\n\n --Carl Riccadonna and Yelena Shulyatyeva, economists\n\nThe jobs market though has softened, with claims filed for unemployment benefits jumping to a four-week high in the most recent reporting period. Payrolls last month barely rose, by 49,000, after a 227,000 decline in December, and while unemployment dropped to 6.3%, that partly reflected more people leaving the workforce.\n“The high level of joblessness has been especially severe for lower-wage workers and for African Americans, Hispanics, and other minority groups,” Powell said. “The economic dislocation has upended many lives and created great uncertainty about the future.”\nHe reiterated the Fed’s pledge to keep short-term interest rates pinned near zero until the labor market has reached maximum employment and inflation has accelerated to 2% -- and is on track to moderately exceed that level for some time.\nThe personal consumption expenditures price index rose 1.3% in December 2020 from a year earlier, well below the Fed’s 2% inflation target. 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And he called the recent run-up in bond yields that has unsettled the stock market “a statement of confidence” in a robust economic outlook.</p>\n<p>The Fed is currently buying $120 billion of assets per month -- $80 billion of Treasury securities and $40 billion of mortgage-backed debt -- and has pledged to keep up that pace “until substantial further progress” has been made toward its goals of maximum employment and 2% inflation.</p>\n<p>The chairman “gave absolutely no indication that the Fed is thinking about changing its very dovish policy stance,” Cornerstone Macro analysts Roberto Perli and Benson Durham wrote in a note to clients.</p>\n<p>Powell’s testimony occurred against the backdrop of growing optimism about the economy as vaccines against the coronavirus are more widely disseminated and expectations of further fiscal stimulus from President Joe Biden and Congress mount.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0ebf0c22dfcb8ea4a998998b28e8c4cd\" tg-width=\"1200\" tg-height=\"675\"></p>\n<p>Bond yields have risen on the economy’s better prospects and in anticipation of faster inflation. Some traders have also brought forward their expectations for the Fed’s first interest-rate increase since it slashed rates effectively to zero last year.</p>\n<p>Powell said it was important to determine what was behind the higher bond yields, namely expectations of a return to a more normal economy.</p>\n<p>“In a way, it’s a statement on confidence on the part of markets that we will have a robust and ultimately complete recovery,” he said.</p>\n<p>Market price action was volatile in the aftermath of Powell’s opening statement text release, with 10-year yields initially rising a couple of basis points to 1.3875% session highs, before the move quickly faded and yields dropped back lower by about the same amount.</p>\n<p>Interest-rate swap markets are pricing the first 25 basis point of Fed hikes around mid-2023, versus the early-2024 time frame priced in at the beginning of this month.</p>\n<p>Technology company shares led a decline in U.S. stock prices on Tuesday on concern that valuations had gotten out of hand amid higher bond yields and bets on faster inflation. Even with recent weakness, though, the S&amp;P 500 index is still up more than 70% from lows struck last March.</p>\n<p>Powell said he didn’t have an opinion on whether that constituted an equity market bubble, noting that there were opinions expressed on both sides of that proposition. “No one can really identify” a bubble, he said.</p>\n<p>Powell allowed that loose monetary policy has played a role in pushing up asset prices. But he said that other forces were also at play, including expectations of faster economic growth.</p>\n<p>“While we should not underestimate the challenges we currently face, developments point to an improved outlook for later this year,” Powell said. “In particular, ongoing progress in vaccinations should help speed the return to normal activities.”</p>\n<p>In response to a question, the Fed chair said growth could come in this year at 6%. The economy contracted by 2.5% last year.</p>\n<p>The economy started 2021 on a strong&nbsp;note, as retail sales and factory output accelerated. In the wake of the firmer data, Bloomberg Economics last week&nbsp;boosted&nbsp;its 2021 growth forecast to 4.6% from 3.5% and said that could rise toward 6%-7% if Biden’s $1.9 trillion aid package is enacted.</p>\n<blockquote>\n What Bloomberg Economics Says...\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s prepared remarks before the Senate Banking Committee showed little if any deviation from the tone of recent public statements. But “no news” is news in and of itself because it shows the Fed to be unwavering in its policy stance, despite rising Treasury yields and an improving tone in much of the economic data.\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n --Carl Riccadonna and Yelena Shulyatyeva, economists\n</blockquote>\n<p>The jobs market though has softened, with claims filed for unemployment benefits jumping to a four-week&nbsp;high&nbsp;in the most recent reporting period. Payrolls last month barely rose, by 49,000, after a 227,000 decline in December, and while&nbsp;unemployment&nbsp;dropped to 6.3%, that partly reflected more people leaving the workforce.</p>\n<p>“The high level of joblessness has been especially severe for lower-wage workers and for African Americans, Hispanics, and other minority groups,” Powell said. “The economic dislocation has upended many lives and created great uncertainty about the future.”</p>\n<p>He reiterated the Fed’s pledge to keep short-term interest rates pinned near zero until the labor market has reached maximum employment and inflation has accelerated to 2% -- and is on track to moderately exceed that level for some time.</p>\n<p>The personal consumption expenditures price index rose 1.3% in December 2020 from a year earlier, well below the Fed’s 2% inflation target. After stripping out volatile food and energy costs, core inflation clocked in at 1.5%.</p>\n<p>“I really do not expect that we’ll be in a situation where inflation rises to troubling levels,” Powell said.</p>\n<p><b>Temporary Inflation</b></p>\n<p>He said inflation will pick up in coming months as current price levels are compared to depressed readings a year ago, when the economy was virtually shut down, but that effect will be temporary.</p>\n<p>Prices may also be pushed up later in the year by pent-up demand released as a growing number of Americans get vaccinated against the virus. But he said that the increase in inflation was unlikely to be large or long-lasting.</p>\n<p>Some economists, most prominently former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, have warned that Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus plan could lead to an overheating of the economy and much faster inflation -- a concern that administration officials have pushed back on as exaggerated.</p>\n<p>While Powell studiously refrained from commenting on the Biden package, he did say that there hasn’t been a strong connection between bigger budget deficits and inflation recently.</p>","source":"lsy1584095487587","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Powell Signals Fed to Keep Buying Bonds Even as Outlook Improves</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; 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And he called the recent run-up in bond yields that has unsettled the stock market “a statement of confidence” in a robust economic outlook.\nThe Fed is currently buying $120 billion of assets per month -- $80 billion of Treasury securities and $40 billion of mortgage-backed debt -- and has pledged to keep up that pace “until substantial further progress” has been made toward its goals of maximum employment and 2% inflation.\nThe chairman “gave absolutely no indication that the Fed is thinking about changing its very dovish policy stance,” Cornerstone Macro analysts Roberto Perli and Benson Durham wrote in a note to clients.\nPowell’s testimony occurred against the backdrop of growing optimism about the economy as vaccines against the coronavirus are more widely disseminated and expectations of further fiscal stimulus from President Joe Biden and Congress mount.\n\nBond yields have risen on the economy’s better prospects and in anticipation of faster inflation. Some traders have also brought forward their expectations for the Fed’s first interest-rate increase since it slashed rates effectively to zero last year.\nPowell said it was important to determine what was behind the higher bond yields, namely expectations of a return to a more normal economy.\n“In a way, it’s a statement on confidence on the part of markets that we will have a robust and ultimately complete recovery,” he said.\nMarket price action was volatile in the aftermath of Powell’s opening statement text release, with 10-year yields initially rising a couple of basis points to 1.3875% session highs, before the move quickly faded and yields dropped back lower by about the same amount.\nInterest-rate swap markets are pricing the first 25 basis point of Fed hikes around mid-2023, versus the early-2024 time frame priced in at the beginning of this month.\nTechnology company shares led a decline in U.S. stock prices on Tuesday on concern that valuations had gotten out of hand amid higher bond yields and bets on faster inflation. Even with recent weakness, though, the S&P 500 index is still up more than 70% from lows struck last March.\nPowell said he didn’t have an opinion on whether that constituted an equity market bubble, noting that there were opinions expressed on both sides of that proposition. “No one can really identify” a bubble, he said.\nPowell allowed that loose monetary policy has played a role in pushing up asset prices. But he said that other forces were also at play, including expectations of faster economic growth.\n“While we should not underestimate the challenges we currently face, developments point to an improved outlook for later this year,” Powell said. “In particular, ongoing progress in vaccinations should help speed the return to normal activities.”\nIn response to a question, the Fed chair said growth could come in this year at 6%. The economy contracted by 2.5% last year.\nThe economy started 2021 on a strong note, as retail sales and factory output accelerated. In the wake of the firmer data, Bloomberg Economics last week boosted its 2021 growth forecast to 4.6% from 3.5% and said that could rise toward 6%-7% if Biden’s $1.9 trillion aid package is enacted.\n\n What Bloomberg Economics Says...\n\n\n Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s prepared remarks before the Senate Banking Committee showed little if any deviation from the tone of recent public statements. But “no news” is news in and of itself because it shows the Fed to be unwavering in its policy stance, despite rising Treasury yields and an improving tone in much of the economic data.\n\n\n --Carl Riccadonna and Yelena Shulyatyeva, economists\n\nThe jobs market though has softened, with claims filed for unemployment benefits jumping to a four-week high in the most recent reporting period. Payrolls last month barely rose, by 49,000, after a 227,000 decline in December, and while unemployment dropped to 6.3%, that partly reflected more people leaving the workforce.\n“The high level of joblessness has been especially severe for lower-wage workers and for African Americans, Hispanics, and other minority groups,” Powell said. “The economic dislocation has upended many lives and created great uncertainty about the future.”\nHe reiterated the Fed’s pledge to keep short-term interest rates pinned near zero until the labor market has reached maximum employment and inflation has accelerated to 2% -- and is on track to moderately exceed that level for some time.\nThe personal consumption expenditures price index rose 1.3% in December 2020 from a year earlier, well below the Fed’s 2% inflation target. After stripping out volatile food and energy costs, core inflation clocked in at 1.5%.\n“I really do not expect that we’ll be in a situation where inflation rises to troubling levels,” Powell said.\nTemporary Inflation\nHe said inflation will pick up in coming months as current price levels are compared to depressed readings a year ago, when the economy was virtually shut down, but that effect will be temporary.\nPrices may also be pushed up later in the year by pent-up demand released as a growing number of Americans get vaccinated against the virus. But he said that the increase in inflation was unlikely to be large or long-lasting.\nSome economists, most prominently former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, have warned that Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus plan could lead to an overheating of the economy and much faster inflation -- a concern that administration officials have pushed back on as exaggerated.\nWhile Powell studiously refrained from commenting on the Biden package, he did say that there hasn’t been a strong connection between bigger budget deficits and inflation recently.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":363577604,"gmtCreate":1614160050008,"gmtModify":1634550947498,"author":{"id":"3573641525748535","authorId":"3573641525748535","name":"JohnnieBeGd","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d32df98cdb438296acbb2d53a4e7cffb","vip":1,"crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"authorIdStr":"3573641525748535","idStr":"3573641525748535"},"htmlText":"[财迷]","listText":"[财迷]","text":"[财迷]","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/363577604","repostId":1123329535,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1123329535","pubTimestamp":1614109924,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1123329535?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-02-24 03:52","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Powell Signals Fed to Keep Buying Bonds Even as Outlook Improves","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1123329535","media":"Bloomberg","summary":"Fed chief plays down concerns about inflation, rising yields\nPowell says U.S. economy could expand b","content":"<ul>\n <li>Fed chief plays down concerns about inflation, rising yields</li>\n <li>Powell says U.S. economy could expand by 6% this year</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell signaled that the central bank was nowhere close to pulling back on its support for the pandemic-damaged U.S. economy even as he voiced expectations for a return to more normal, improved activity later this year.</p>\n<p>“The economy is a long way from our employment and inflation goals, and it is likely to take some time for substantial further progress to be achieved,” he told the Senate Banking Committee Tuesday.</p>\n<p>He also played down concerns of an inflationary outbreak from another big fiscal stimulus package or from an unleashing of pent-up demand as a growing number of Americans are vaccinated against the virus. And he called the recent run-up in bond yields that has unsettled the stock market “a statement of confidence” in a robust economic outlook.</p>\n<p>The Fed is currently buying $120 billion of assets per month -- $80 billion of Treasury securities and $40 billion of mortgage-backed debt -- and has pledged to keep up that pace “until substantial further progress” has been made toward its goals of maximum employment and 2% inflation.</p>\n<p>The chairman “gave absolutely no indication that the Fed is thinking about changing its very dovish policy stance,” Cornerstone Macro analysts Roberto Perli and Benson Durham wrote in a note to clients.</p>\n<p>Powell’s testimony occurred against the backdrop of growing optimism about the economy as vaccines against the coronavirus are more widely disseminated and expectations of further fiscal stimulus from President Joe Biden and Congress mount.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0ebf0c22dfcb8ea4a998998b28e8c4cd\" tg-width=\"1200\" tg-height=\"675\"></p>\n<p>Bond yields have risen on the economy’s better prospects and in anticipation of faster inflation. Some traders have also brought forward their expectations for the Fed’s first interest-rate increase since it slashed rates effectively to zero last year.</p>\n<p>Powell said it was important to determine what was behind the higher bond yields, namely expectations of a return to a more normal economy.</p>\n<p>“In a way, it’s a statement on confidence on the part of markets that we will have a robust and ultimately complete recovery,” he said.</p>\n<p>Market price action was volatile in the aftermath of Powell’s opening statement text release, with 10-year yields initially rising a couple of basis points to 1.3875% session highs, before the move quickly faded and yields dropped back lower by about the same amount.</p>\n<p>Interest-rate swap markets are pricing the first 25 basis point of Fed hikes around mid-2023, versus the early-2024 time frame priced in at the beginning of this month.</p>\n<p>Technology company shares led a decline in U.S. stock prices on Tuesday on concern that valuations had gotten out of hand amid higher bond yields and bets on faster inflation. Even with recent weakness, though, the S&amp;P 500 index is still up more than 70% from lows struck last March.</p>\n<p>Powell said he didn’t have an opinion on whether that constituted an equity market bubble, noting that there were opinions expressed on both sides of that proposition. “No one can really identify” a bubble, he said.</p>\n<p>Powell allowed that loose monetary policy has played a role in pushing up asset prices. But he said that other forces were also at play, including expectations of faster economic growth.</p>\n<p>“While we should not underestimate the challenges we currently face, developments point to an improved outlook for later this year,” Powell said. “In particular, ongoing progress in vaccinations should help speed the return to normal activities.”</p>\n<p>In response to a question, the Fed chair said growth could come in this year at 6%. The economy contracted by 2.5% last year.</p>\n<p>The economy started 2021 on a strong&nbsp;note, as retail sales and factory output accelerated. In the wake of the firmer data, Bloomberg Economics last week&nbsp;boosted&nbsp;its 2021 growth forecast to 4.6% from 3.5% and said that could rise toward 6%-7% if Biden’s $1.9 trillion aid package is enacted.</p>\n<blockquote>\n What Bloomberg Economics Says...\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s prepared remarks before the Senate Banking Committee showed little if any deviation from the tone of recent public statements. But “no news” is news in and of itself because it shows the Fed to be unwavering in its policy stance, despite rising Treasury yields and an improving tone in much of the economic data.\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n --Carl Riccadonna and Yelena Shulyatyeva, economists\n</blockquote>\n<p>The jobs market though has softened, with claims filed for unemployment benefits jumping to a four-week&nbsp;high&nbsp;in the most recent reporting period. Payrolls last month barely rose, by 49,000, after a 227,000 decline in December, and while&nbsp;unemployment&nbsp;dropped to 6.3%, that partly reflected more people leaving the workforce.</p>\n<p>“The high level of joblessness has been especially severe for lower-wage workers and for African Americans, Hispanics, and other minority groups,” Powell said. “The economic dislocation has upended many lives and created great uncertainty about the future.”</p>\n<p>He reiterated the Fed’s pledge to keep short-term interest rates pinned near zero until the labor market has reached maximum employment and inflation has accelerated to 2% -- and is on track to moderately exceed that level for some time.</p>\n<p>The personal consumption expenditures price index rose 1.3% in December 2020 from a year earlier, well below the Fed’s 2% inflation target. After stripping out volatile food and energy costs, core inflation clocked in at 1.5%.</p>\n<p>“I really do not expect that we’ll be in a situation where inflation rises to troubling levels,” Powell said.</p>\n<p><b>Temporary Inflation</b></p>\n<p>He said inflation will pick up in coming months as current price levels are compared to depressed readings a year ago, when the economy was virtually shut down, but that effect will be temporary.</p>\n<p>Prices may also be pushed up later in the year by pent-up demand released as a growing number of Americans get vaccinated against the virus. But he said that the increase in inflation was unlikely to be large or long-lasting.</p>\n<p>Some economists, most prominently former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, have warned that Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus plan could lead to an overheating of the economy and much faster inflation -- a concern that administration officials have pushed back on as exaggerated.</p>\n<p>While Powell studiously refrained from commenting on the Biden package, he did say that there hasn’t been a strong connection between bigger budget deficits and inflation recently.</p>","source":"lsy1584095487587","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Powell Signals Fed to Keep Buying Bonds Even as Outlook Improves</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; 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And he called the recent run-up in bond yields that has unsettled the stock market “a statement of confidence” in a robust economic outlook.\nThe Fed is currently buying $120 billion of assets per month -- $80 billion of Treasury securities and $40 billion of mortgage-backed debt -- and has pledged to keep up that pace “until substantial further progress” has been made toward its goals of maximum employment and 2% inflation.\nThe chairman “gave absolutely no indication that the Fed is thinking about changing its very dovish policy stance,” Cornerstone Macro analysts Roberto Perli and Benson Durham wrote in a note to clients.\nPowell’s testimony occurred against the backdrop of growing optimism about the economy as vaccines against the coronavirus are more widely disseminated and expectations of further fiscal stimulus from President Joe Biden and Congress mount.\n\nBond yields have risen on the economy’s better prospects and in anticipation of faster inflation. Some traders have also brought forward their expectations for the Fed’s first interest-rate increase since it slashed rates effectively to zero last year.\nPowell said it was important to determine what was behind the higher bond yields, namely expectations of a return to a more normal economy.\n“In a way, it’s a statement on confidence on the part of markets that we will have a robust and ultimately complete recovery,” he said.\nMarket price action was volatile in the aftermath of Powell’s opening statement text release, with 10-year yields initially rising a couple of basis points to 1.3875% session highs, before the move quickly faded and yields dropped back lower by about the same amount.\nInterest-rate swap markets are pricing the first 25 basis point of Fed hikes around mid-2023, versus the early-2024 time frame priced in at the beginning of this month.\nTechnology company shares led a decline in U.S. stock prices on Tuesday on concern that valuations had gotten out of hand amid higher bond yields and bets on faster inflation. Even with recent weakness, though, the S&P 500 index is still up more than 70% from lows struck last March.\nPowell said he didn’t have an opinion on whether that constituted an equity market bubble, noting that there were opinions expressed on both sides of that proposition. “No one can really identify” a bubble, he said.\nPowell allowed that loose monetary policy has played a role in pushing up asset prices. But he said that other forces were also at play, including expectations of faster economic growth.\n“While we should not underestimate the challenges we currently face, developments point to an improved outlook for later this year,” Powell said. “In particular, ongoing progress in vaccinations should help speed the return to normal activities.”\nIn response to a question, the Fed chair said growth could come in this year at 6%. The economy contracted by 2.5% last year.\nThe economy started 2021 on a strong note, as retail sales and factory output accelerated. In the wake of the firmer data, Bloomberg Economics last week boosted its 2021 growth forecast to 4.6% from 3.5% and said that could rise toward 6%-7% if Biden’s $1.9 trillion aid package is enacted.\n\n What Bloomberg Economics Says...\n\n\n Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s prepared remarks before the Senate Banking Committee showed little if any deviation from the tone of recent public statements. But “no news” is news in and of itself because it shows the Fed to be unwavering in its policy stance, despite rising Treasury yields and an improving tone in much of the economic data.\n\n\n --Carl Riccadonna and Yelena Shulyatyeva, economists\n\nThe jobs market though has softened, with claims filed for unemployment benefits jumping to a four-week high in the most recent reporting period. Payrolls last month barely rose, by 49,000, after a 227,000 decline in December, and while unemployment dropped to 6.3%, that partly reflected more people leaving the workforce.\n“The high level of joblessness has been especially severe for lower-wage workers and for African Americans, Hispanics, and other minority groups,” Powell said. “The economic dislocation has upended many lives and created great uncertainty about the future.”\nHe reiterated the Fed’s pledge to keep short-term interest rates pinned near zero until the labor market has reached maximum employment and inflation has accelerated to 2% -- and is on track to moderately exceed that level for some time.\nThe personal consumption expenditures price index rose 1.3% in December 2020 from a year earlier, well below the Fed’s 2% inflation target. After stripping out volatile food and energy costs, core inflation clocked in at 1.5%.\n“I really do not expect that we’ll be in a situation where inflation rises to troubling levels,” Powell said.\nTemporary Inflation\nHe said inflation will pick up in coming months as current price levels are compared to depressed readings a year ago, when the economy was virtually shut down, but that effect will be temporary.\nPrices may also be pushed up later in the year by pent-up demand released as a growing number of Americans get vaccinated against the virus. But he said that the increase in inflation was unlikely to be large or long-lasting.\nSome economists, most prominently former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, have warned that Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus plan could lead to an overheating of the economy and much faster inflation -- a concern that administration officials have pushed back on as exaggerated.\nWhile Powell studiously refrained from commenting on the Biden package, he did say that there hasn’t been a strong connection between bigger budget deficits and inflation recently.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"CN"},{"id":363272129,"gmtCreate":1614147405161,"gmtModify":1634550981601,"author":{"id":"3575256884333459","authorId":"3575256884333459","name":"MorphyInc","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8fa62407baa49ccbcbca7d374aa8a803","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"authorIdStr":"3575256884333459","idStr":"3575256884333459"},"htmlText":"New infinity&nbsp;added to the current 2","listText":"New infinity&nbsp;added to the current 2","text":"New infinity added to the current 2","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/363272129","repostId":1123329535,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1123329535","pubTimestamp":1614109924,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1123329535?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-02-24 03:52","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Powell Signals Fed to Keep Buying Bonds Even as Outlook Improves","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1123329535","media":"Bloomberg","summary":"Fed chief plays down concerns about inflation, rising yields\nPowell says U.S. economy could expand b","content":"<ul>\n <li>Fed chief plays down concerns about inflation, rising yields</li>\n <li>Powell says U.S. economy could expand by 6% this year</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell signaled that the central bank was nowhere close to pulling back on its support for the pandemic-damaged U.S. economy even as he voiced expectations for a return to more normal, improved activity later this year.</p>\n<p>“The economy is a long way from our employment and inflation goals, and it is likely to take some time for substantial further progress to be achieved,” he told the Senate Banking Committee Tuesday.</p>\n<p>He also played down concerns of an inflationary outbreak from another big fiscal stimulus package or from an unleashing of pent-up demand as a growing number of Americans are vaccinated against the virus. And he called the recent run-up in bond yields that has unsettled the stock market “a statement of confidence” in a robust economic outlook.</p>\n<p>The Fed is currently buying $120 billion of assets per month -- $80 billion of Treasury securities and $40 billion of mortgage-backed debt -- and has pledged to keep up that pace “until substantial further progress” has been made toward its goals of maximum employment and 2% inflation.</p>\n<p>The chairman “gave absolutely no indication that the Fed is thinking about changing its very dovish policy stance,” Cornerstone Macro analysts Roberto Perli and Benson Durham wrote in a note to clients.</p>\n<p>Powell’s testimony occurred against the backdrop of growing optimism about the economy as vaccines against the coronavirus are more widely disseminated and expectations of further fiscal stimulus from President Joe Biden and Congress mount.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0ebf0c22dfcb8ea4a998998b28e8c4cd\" tg-width=\"1200\" tg-height=\"675\"></p>\n<p>Bond yields have risen on the economy’s better prospects and in anticipation of faster inflation. Some traders have also brought forward their expectations for the Fed’s first interest-rate increase since it slashed rates effectively to zero last year.</p>\n<p>Powell said it was important to determine what was behind the higher bond yields, namely expectations of a return to a more normal economy.</p>\n<p>“In a way, it’s a statement on confidence on the part of markets that we will have a robust and ultimately complete recovery,” he said.</p>\n<p>Market price action was volatile in the aftermath of Powell’s opening statement text release, with 10-year yields initially rising a couple of basis points to 1.3875% session highs, before the move quickly faded and yields dropped back lower by about the same amount.</p>\n<p>Interest-rate swap markets are pricing the first 25 basis point of Fed hikes around mid-2023, versus the early-2024 time frame priced in at the beginning of this month.</p>\n<p>Technology company shares led a decline in U.S. stock prices on Tuesday on concern that valuations had gotten out of hand amid higher bond yields and bets on faster inflation. Even with recent weakness, though, the S&amp;P 500 index is still up more than 70% from lows struck last March.</p>\n<p>Powell said he didn’t have an opinion on whether that constituted an equity market bubble, noting that there were opinions expressed on both sides of that proposition. “No one can really identify” a bubble, he said.</p>\n<p>Powell allowed that loose monetary policy has played a role in pushing up asset prices. But he said that other forces were also at play, including expectations of faster economic growth.</p>\n<p>“While we should not underestimate the challenges we currently face, developments point to an improved outlook for later this year,” Powell said. “In particular, ongoing progress in vaccinations should help speed the return to normal activities.”</p>\n<p>In response to a question, the Fed chair said growth could come in this year at 6%. The economy contracted by 2.5% last year.</p>\n<p>The economy started 2021 on a strong&nbsp;note, as retail sales and factory output accelerated. In the wake of the firmer data, Bloomberg Economics last week&nbsp;boosted&nbsp;its 2021 growth forecast to 4.6% from 3.5% and said that could rise toward 6%-7% if Biden’s $1.9 trillion aid package is enacted.</p>\n<blockquote>\n What Bloomberg Economics Says...\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s prepared remarks before the Senate Banking Committee showed little if any deviation from the tone of recent public statements. But “no news” is news in and of itself because it shows the Fed to be unwavering in its policy stance, despite rising Treasury yields and an improving tone in much of the economic data.\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n --Carl Riccadonna and Yelena Shulyatyeva, economists\n</blockquote>\n<p>The jobs market though has softened, with claims filed for unemployment benefits jumping to a four-week&nbsp;high&nbsp;in the most recent reporting period. Payrolls last month barely rose, by 49,000, after a 227,000 decline in December, and while&nbsp;unemployment&nbsp;dropped to 6.3%, that partly reflected more people leaving the workforce.</p>\n<p>“The high level of joblessness has been especially severe for lower-wage workers and for African Americans, Hispanics, and other minority groups,” Powell said. “The economic dislocation has upended many lives and created great uncertainty about the future.”</p>\n<p>He reiterated the Fed’s pledge to keep short-term interest rates pinned near zero until the labor market has reached maximum employment and inflation has accelerated to 2% -- and is on track to moderately exceed that level for some time.</p>\n<p>The personal consumption expenditures price index rose 1.3% in December 2020 from a year earlier, well below the Fed’s 2% inflation target. After stripping out volatile food and energy costs, core inflation clocked in at 1.5%.</p>\n<p>“I really do not expect that we’ll be in a situation where inflation rises to troubling levels,” Powell said.</p>\n<p><b>Temporary Inflation</b></p>\n<p>He said inflation will pick up in coming months as current price levels are compared to depressed readings a year ago, when the economy was virtually shut down, but that effect will be temporary.</p>\n<p>Prices may also be pushed up later in the year by pent-up demand released as a growing number of Americans get vaccinated against the virus. But he said that the increase in inflation was unlikely to be large or long-lasting.</p>\n<p>Some economists, most prominently former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, have warned that Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus plan could lead to an overheating of the economy and much faster inflation -- a concern that administration officials have pushed back on as exaggerated.</p>\n<p>While Powell studiously refrained from commenting on the Biden package, he did say that there hasn’t been a strong connection between bigger budget deficits and inflation recently.</p>","source":"lsy1584095487587","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Powell Signals Fed to Keep Buying Bonds Even as Outlook Improves</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; 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And he called the recent run-up in bond yields that has unsettled the stock market “a statement of confidence” in a robust economic outlook.\nThe Fed is currently buying $120 billion of assets per month -- $80 billion of Treasury securities and $40 billion of mortgage-backed debt -- and has pledged to keep up that pace “until substantial further progress” has been made toward its goals of maximum employment and 2% inflation.\nThe chairman “gave absolutely no indication that the Fed is thinking about changing its very dovish policy stance,” Cornerstone Macro analysts Roberto Perli and Benson Durham wrote in a note to clients.\nPowell’s testimony occurred against the backdrop of growing optimism about the economy as vaccines against the coronavirus are more widely disseminated and expectations of further fiscal stimulus from President Joe Biden and Congress mount.\n\nBond yields have risen on the economy’s better prospects and in anticipation of faster inflation. Some traders have also brought forward their expectations for the Fed’s first interest-rate increase since it slashed rates effectively to zero last year.\nPowell said it was important to determine what was behind the higher bond yields, namely expectations of a return to a more normal economy.\n“In a way, it’s a statement on confidence on the part of markets that we will have a robust and ultimately complete recovery,” he said.\nMarket price action was volatile in the aftermath of Powell’s opening statement text release, with 10-year yields initially rising a couple of basis points to 1.3875% session highs, before the move quickly faded and yields dropped back lower by about the same amount.\nInterest-rate swap markets are pricing the first 25 basis point of Fed hikes around mid-2023, versus the early-2024 time frame priced in at the beginning of this month.\nTechnology company shares led a decline in U.S. stock prices on Tuesday on concern that valuations had gotten out of hand amid higher bond yields and bets on faster inflation. Even with recent weakness, though, the S&P 500 index is still up more than 70% from lows struck last March.\nPowell said he didn’t have an opinion on whether that constituted an equity market bubble, noting that there were opinions expressed on both sides of that proposition. “No one can really identify” a bubble, he said.\nPowell allowed that loose monetary policy has played a role in pushing up asset prices. But he said that other forces were also at play, including expectations of faster economic growth.\n“While we should not underestimate the challenges we currently face, developments point to an improved outlook for later this year,” Powell said. “In particular, ongoing progress in vaccinations should help speed the return to normal activities.”\nIn response to a question, the Fed chair said growth could come in this year at 6%. The economy contracted by 2.5% last year.\nThe economy started 2021 on a strong note, as retail sales and factory output accelerated. In the wake of the firmer data, Bloomberg Economics last week boosted its 2021 growth forecast to 4.6% from 3.5% and said that could rise toward 6%-7% if Biden’s $1.9 trillion aid package is enacted.\n\n What Bloomberg Economics Says...\n\n\n Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s prepared remarks before the Senate Banking Committee showed little if any deviation from the tone of recent public statements. But “no news” is news in and of itself because it shows the Fed to be unwavering in its policy stance, despite rising Treasury yields and an improving tone in much of the economic data.\n\n\n --Carl Riccadonna and Yelena Shulyatyeva, economists\n\nThe jobs market though has softened, with claims filed for unemployment benefits jumping to a four-week high in the most recent reporting period. Payrolls last month barely rose, by 49,000, after a 227,000 decline in December, and while unemployment dropped to 6.3%, that partly reflected more people leaving the workforce.\n“The high level of joblessness has been especially severe for lower-wage workers and for African Americans, Hispanics, and other minority groups,” Powell said. “The economic dislocation has upended many lives and created great uncertainty about the future.”\nHe reiterated the Fed’s pledge to keep short-term interest rates pinned near zero until the labor market has reached maximum employment and inflation has accelerated to 2% -- and is on track to moderately exceed that level for some time.\nThe personal consumption expenditures price index rose 1.3% in December 2020 from a year earlier, well below the Fed’s 2% inflation target. After stripping out volatile food and energy costs, core inflation clocked in at 1.5%.\n“I really do not expect that we’ll be in a situation where inflation rises to troubling levels,” Powell said.\nTemporary Inflation\nHe said inflation will pick up in coming months as current price levels are compared to depressed readings a year ago, when the economy was virtually shut down, but that effect will be temporary.\nPrices may also be pushed up later in the year by pent-up demand released as a growing number of Americans get vaccinated against the virus. But he said that the increase in inflation was unlikely to be large or long-lasting.\nSome economists, most prominently former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, have warned that Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus plan could lead to an overheating of the economy and much faster inflation -- a concern that administration officials have pushed back on as exaggerated.\nWhile Powell studiously refrained from commenting on the Biden package, he did say that there hasn’t been a strong connection between bigger budget deficits and inflation recently.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":363279865,"gmtCreate":1614146836957,"gmtModify":1634550983124,"author":{"id":"3572665963519262","authorId":"3572665963519262","name":"WSS","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f98dcc1b399a8448c581410f2da052f7","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"authorIdStr":"3572665963519262","idStr":"3572665963519262"},"htmlText":"QE Infinity","listText":"QE Infinity","text":"QE Infinity","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/363279865","repostId":1123329535,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1123329535","pubTimestamp":1614109924,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1123329535?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-02-24 03:52","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Powell Signals Fed to Keep Buying Bonds Even as Outlook Improves","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1123329535","media":"Bloomberg","summary":"Fed chief plays down concerns about inflation, rising yields\nPowell says U.S. economy could expand b","content":"<ul>\n <li>Fed chief plays down concerns about inflation, rising yields</li>\n <li>Powell says U.S. economy could expand by 6% this year</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell signaled that the central bank was nowhere close to pulling back on its support for the pandemic-damaged U.S. economy even as he voiced expectations for a return to more normal, improved activity later this year.</p>\n<p>“The economy is a long way from our employment and inflation goals, and it is likely to take some time for substantial further progress to be achieved,” he told the Senate Banking Committee Tuesday.</p>\n<p>He also played down concerns of an inflationary outbreak from another big fiscal stimulus package or from an unleashing of pent-up demand as a growing number of Americans are vaccinated against the virus. And he called the recent run-up in bond yields that has unsettled the stock market “a statement of confidence” in a robust economic outlook.</p>\n<p>The Fed is currently buying $120 billion of assets per month -- $80 billion of Treasury securities and $40 billion of mortgage-backed debt -- and has pledged to keep up that pace “until substantial further progress” has been made toward its goals of maximum employment and 2% inflation.</p>\n<p>The chairman “gave absolutely no indication that the Fed is thinking about changing its very dovish policy stance,” Cornerstone Macro analysts Roberto Perli and Benson Durham wrote in a note to clients.</p>\n<p>Powell’s testimony occurred against the backdrop of growing optimism about the economy as vaccines against the coronavirus are more widely disseminated and expectations of further fiscal stimulus from President Joe Biden and Congress mount.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0ebf0c22dfcb8ea4a998998b28e8c4cd\" tg-width=\"1200\" tg-height=\"675\"></p>\n<p>Bond yields have risen on the economy’s better prospects and in anticipation of faster inflation. Some traders have also brought forward their expectations for the Fed’s first interest-rate increase since it slashed rates effectively to zero last year.</p>\n<p>Powell said it was important to determine what was behind the higher bond yields, namely expectations of a return to a more normal economy.</p>\n<p>“In a way, it’s a statement on confidence on the part of markets that we will have a robust and ultimately complete recovery,” he said.</p>\n<p>Market price action was volatile in the aftermath of Powell’s opening statement text release, with 10-year yields initially rising a couple of basis points to 1.3875% session highs, before the move quickly faded and yields dropped back lower by about the same amount.</p>\n<p>Interest-rate swap markets are pricing the first 25 basis point of Fed hikes around mid-2023, versus the early-2024 time frame priced in at the beginning of this month.</p>\n<p>Technology company shares led a decline in U.S. stock prices on Tuesday on concern that valuations had gotten out of hand amid higher bond yields and bets on faster inflation. Even with recent weakness, though, the S&amp;P 500 index is still up more than 70% from lows struck last March.</p>\n<p>Powell said he didn’t have an opinion on whether that constituted an equity market bubble, noting that there were opinions expressed on both sides of that proposition. “No one can really identify” a bubble, he said.</p>\n<p>Powell allowed that loose monetary policy has played a role in pushing up asset prices. But he said that other forces were also at play, including expectations of faster economic growth.</p>\n<p>“While we should not underestimate the challenges we currently face, developments point to an improved outlook for later this year,” Powell said. “In particular, ongoing progress in vaccinations should help speed the return to normal activities.”</p>\n<p>In response to a question, the Fed chair said growth could come in this year at 6%. The economy contracted by 2.5% last year.</p>\n<p>The economy started 2021 on a strong&nbsp;note, as retail sales and factory output accelerated. In the wake of the firmer data, Bloomberg Economics last week&nbsp;boosted&nbsp;its 2021 growth forecast to 4.6% from 3.5% and said that could rise toward 6%-7% if Biden’s $1.9 trillion aid package is enacted.</p>\n<blockquote>\n What Bloomberg Economics Says...\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s prepared remarks before the Senate Banking Committee showed little if any deviation from the tone of recent public statements. But “no news” is news in and of itself because it shows the Fed to be unwavering in its policy stance, despite rising Treasury yields and an improving tone in much of the economic data.\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n --Carl Riccadonna and Yelena Shulyatyeva, economists\n</blockquote>\n<p>The jobs market though has softened, with claims filed for unemployment benefits jumping to a four-week&nbsp;high&nbsp;in the most recent reporting period. Payrolls last month barely rose, by 49,000, after a 227,000 decline in December, and while&nbsp;unemployment&nbsp;dropped to 6.3%, that partly reflected more people leaving the workforce.</p>\n<p>“The high level of joblessness has been especially severe for lower-wage workers and for African Americans, Hispanics, and other minority groups,” Powell said. “The economic dislocation has upended many lives and created great uncertainty about the future.”</p>\n<p>He reiterated the Fed’s pledge to keep short-term interest rates pinned near zero until the labor market has reached maximum employment and inflation has accelerated to 2% -- and is on track to moderately exceed that level for some time.</p>\n<p>The personal consumption expenditures price index rose 1.3% in December 2020 from a year earlier, well below the Fed’s 2% inflation target. After stripping out volatile food and energy costs, core inflation clocked in at 1.5%.</p>\n<p>“I really do not expect that we’ll be in a situation where inflation rises to troubling levels,” Powell said.</p>\n<p><b>Temporary Inflation</b></p>\n<p>He said inflation will pick up in coming months as current price levels are compared to depressed readings a year ago, when the economy was virtually shut down, but that effect will be temporary.</p>\n<p>Prices may also be pushed up later in the year by pent-up demand released as a growing number of Americans get vaccinated against the virus. But he said that the increase in inflation was unlikely to be large or long-lasting.</p>\n<p>Some economists, most prominently former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, have warned that Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus plan could lead to an overheating of the economy and much faster inflation -- a concern that administration officials have pushed back on as exaggerated.</p>\n<p>While Powell studiously refrained from commenting on the Biden package, he did say that there hasn’t been a strong connection between bigger budget deficits and inflation recently.</p>","source":"lsy1584095487587","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Powell Signals Fed to Keep Buying Bonds Even as Outlook Improves</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; 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And he called the recent run-up in bond yields that has unsettled the stock market “a statement of confidence” in a robust economic outlook.\nThe Fed is currently buying $120 billion of assets per month -- $80 billion of Treasury securities and $40 billion of mortgage-backed debt -- and has pledged to keep up that pace “until substantial further progress” has been made toward its goals of maximum employment and 2% inflation.\nThe chairman “gave absolutely no indication that the Fed is thinking about changing its very dovish policy stance,” Cornerstone Macro analysts Roberto Perli and Benson Durham wrote in a note to clients.\nPowell’s testimony occurred against the backdrop of growing optimism about the economy as vaccines against the coronavirus are more widely disseminated and expectations of further fiscal stimulus from President Joe Biden and Congress mount.\n\nBond yields have risen on the economy’s better prospects and in anticipation of faster inflation. Some traders have also brought forward their expectations for the Fed’s first interest-rate increase since it slashed rates effectively to zero last year.\nPowell said it was important to determine what was behind the higher bond yields, namely expectations of a return to a more normal economy.\n“In a way, it’s a statement on confidence on the part of markets that we will have a robust and ultimately complete recovery,” he said.\nMarket price action was volatile in the aftermath of Powell’s opening statement text release, with 10-year yields initially rising a couple of basis points to 1.3875% session highs, before the move quickly faded and yields dropped back lower by about the same amount.\nInterest-rate swap markets are pricing the first 25 basis point of Fed hikes around mid-2023, versus the early-2024 time frame priced in at the beginning of this month.\nTechnology company shares led a decline in U.S. stock prices on Tuesday on concern that valuations had gotten out of hand amid higher bond yields and bets on faster inflation. Even with recent weakness, though, the S&P 500 index is still up more than 70% from lows struck last March.\nPowell said he didn’t have an opinion on whether that constituted an equity market bubble, noting that there were opinions expressed on both sides of that proposition. “No one can really identify” a bubble, he said.\nPowell allowed that loose monetary policy has played a role in pushing up asset prices. But he said that other forces were also at play, including expectations of faster economic growth.\n“While we should not underestimate the challenges we currently face, developments point to an improved outlook for later this year,” Powell said. “In particular, ongoing progress in vaccinations should help speed the return to normal activities.”\nIn response to a question, the Fed chair said growth could come in this year at 6%. The economy contracted by 2.5% last year.\nThe economy started 2021 on a strong note, as retail sales and factory output accelerated. In the wake of the firmer data, Bloomberg Economics last week boosted its 2021 growth forecast to 4.6% from 3.5% and said that could rise toward 6%-7% if Biden’s $1.9 trillion aid package is enacted.\n\n What Bloomberg Economics Says...\n\n\n Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s prepared remarks before the Senate Banking Committee showed little if any deviation from the tone of recent public statements. But “no news” is news in and of itself because it shows the Fed to be unwavering in its policy stance, despite rising Treasury yields and an improving tone in much of the economic data.\n\n\n --Carl Riccadonna and Yelena Shulyatyeva, economists\n\nThe jobs market though has softened, with claims filed for unemployment benefits jumping to a four-week high in the most recent reporting period. Payrolls last month barely rose, by 49,000, after a 227,000 decline in December, and while unemployment dropped to 6.3%, that partly reflected more people leaving the workforce.\n“The high level of joblessness has been especially severe for lower-wage workers and for African Americans, Hispanics, and other minority groups,” Powell said. “The economic dislocation has upended many lives and created great uncertainty about the future.”\nHe reiterated the Fed’s pledge to keep short-term interest rates pinned near zero until the labor market has reached maximum employment and inflation has accelerated to 2% -- and is on track to moderately exceed that level for some time.\nThe personal consumption expenditures price index rose 1.3% in December 2020 from a year earlier, well below the Fed’s 2% inflation target. After stripping out volatile food and energy costs, core inflation clocked in at 1.5%.\n“I really do not expect that we’ll be in a situation where inflation rises to troubling levels,” Powell said.\nTemporary Inflation\nHe said inflation will pick up in coming months as current price levels are compared to depressed readings a year ago, when the economy was virtually shut down, but that effect will be temporary.\nPrices may also be pushed up later in the year by pent-up demand released as a growing number of Americans get vaccinated against the virus. But he said that the increase in inflation was unlikely to be large or long-lasting.\nSome economists, most prominently former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, have warned that Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus plan could lead to an overheating of the economy and much faster inflation -- a concern that administration officials have pushed back on as exaggerated.\nWhile Powell studiously refrained from commenting on the Biden package, he did say that there hasn’t been a strong connection between bigger budget deficits and inflation recently.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":363223159,"gmtCreate":1614143992071,"gmtModify":1634550995276,"author":{"id":"3570061630390519","authorId":"3570061630390519","name":"LUKIE","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/bb1465384faaf9002099d929922af8e1","vip":1,"crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"authorIdStr":"3570061630390519","idStr":"3570061630390519"},"htmlText":"On d Dot Bro Powell. 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This strict following of near Zero interest n confidence on d control growth of employment n inflation will definitely helps to calm d market. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/363223159","repostId":1123329535,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1123329535","pubTimestamp":1614109924,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1123329535?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-02-24 03:52","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Powell Signals Fed to Keep Buying Bonds Even as Outlook Improves","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1123329535","media":"Bloomberg","summary":"Fed chief plays down concerns about inflation, rising yields\nPowell says U.S. economy could expand b","content":"<ul>\n <li>Fed chief plays down concerns about inflation, rising yields</li>\n <li>Powell says U.S. economy could expand by 6% this year</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell signaled that the central bank was nowhere close to pulling back on its support for the pandemic-damaged U.S. economy even as he voiced expectations for a return to more normal, improved activity later this year.</p>\n<p>“The economy is a long way from our employment and inflation goals, and it is likely to take some time for substantial further progress to be achieved,” he told the Senate Banking Committee Tuesday.</p>\n<p>He also played down concerns of an inflationary outbreak from another big fiscal stimulus package or from an unleashing of pent-up demand as a growing number of Americans are vaccinated against the virus. And he called the recent run-up in bond yields that has unsettled the stock market “a statement of confidence” in a robust economic outlook.</p>\n<p>The Fed is currently buying $120 billion of assets per month -- $80 billion of Treasury securities and $40 billion of mortgage-backed debt -- and has pledged to keep up that pace “until substantial further progress” has been made toward its goals of maximum employment and 2% inflation.</p>\n<p>The chairman “gave absolutely no indication that the Fed is thinking about changing its very dovish policy stance,” Cornerstone Macro analysts Roberto Perli and Benson Durham wrote in a note to clients.</p>\n<p>Powell’s testimony occurred against the backdrop of growing optimism about the economy as vaccines against the coronavirus are more widely disseminated and expectations of further fiscal stimulus from President Joe Biden and Congress mount.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0ebf0c22dfcb8ea4a998998b28e8c4cd\" tg-width=\"1200\" tg-height=\"675\"></p>\n<p>Bond yields have risen on the economy’s better prospects and in anticipation of faster inflation. Some traders have also brought forward their expectations for the Fed’s first interest-rate increase since it slashed rates effectively to zero last year.</p>\n<p>Powell said it was important to determine what was behind the higher bond yields, namely expectations of a return to a more normal economy.</p>\n<p>“In a way, it’s a statement on confidence on the part of markets that we will have a robust and ultimately complete recovery,” he said.</p>\n<p>Market price action was volatile in the aftermath of Powell’s opening statement text release, with 10-year yields initially rising a couple of basis points to 1.3875% session highs, before the move quickly faded and yields dropped back lower by about the same amount.</p>\n<p>Interest-rate swap markets are pricing the first 25 basis point of Fed hikes around mid-2023, versus the early-2024 time frame priced in at the beginning of this month.</p>\n<p>Technology company shares led a decline in U.S. stock prices on Tuesday on concern that valuations had gotten out of hand amid higher bond yields and bets on faster inflation. Even with recent weakness, though, the S&amp;P 500 index is still up more than 70% from lows struck last March.</p>\n<p>Powell said he didn’t have an opinion on whether that constituted an equity market bubble, noting that there were opinions expressed on both sides of that proposition. “No one can really identify” a bubble, he said.</p>\n<p>Powell allowed that loose monetary policy has played a role in pushing up asset prices. But he said that other forces were also at play, including expectations of faster economic growth.</p>\n<p>“While we should not underestimate the challenges we currently face, developments point to an improved outlook for later this year,” Powell said. “In particular, ongoing progress in vaccinations should help speed the return to normal activities.”</p>\n<p>In response to a question, the Fed chair said growth could come in this year at 6%. The economy contracted by 2.5% last year.</p>\n<p>The economy started 2021 on a strong&nbsp;note, as retail sales and factory output accelerated. In the wake of the firmer data, Bloomberg Economics last week&nbsp;boosted&nbsp;its 2021 growth forecast to 4.6% from 3.5% and said that could rise toward 6%-7% if Biden’s $1.9 trillion aid package is enacted.</p>\n<blockquote>\n What Bloomberg Economics Says...\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s prepared remarks before the Senate Banking Committee showed little if any deviation from the tone of recent public statements. But “no news” is news in and of itself because it shows the Fed to be unwavering in its policy stance, despite rising Treasury yields and an improving tone in much of the economic data.\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n --Carl Riccadonna and Yelena Shulyatyeva, economists\n</blockquote>\n<p>The jobs market though has softened, with claims filed for unemployment benefits jumping to a four-week&nbsp;high&nbsp;in the most recent reporting period. Payrolls last month barely rose, by 49,000, after a 227,000 decline in December, and while&nbsp;unemployment&nbsp;dropped to 6.3%, that partly reflected more people leaving the workforce.</p>\n<p>“The high level of joblessness has been especially severe for lower-wage workers and for African Americans, Hispanics, and other minority groups,” Powell said. “The economic dislocation has upended many lives and created great uncertainty about the future.”</p>\n<p>He reiterated the Fed’s pledge to keep short-term interest rates pinned near zero until the labor market has reached maximum employment and inflation has accelerated to 2% -- and is on track to moderately exceed that level for some time.</p>\n<p>The personal consumption expenditures price index rose 1.3% in December 2020 from a year earlier, well below the Fed’s 2% inflation target. After stripping out volatile food and energy costs, core inflation clocked in at 1.5%.</p>\n<p>“I really do not expect that we’ll be in a situation where inflation rises to troubling levels,” Powell said.</p>\n<p><b>Temporary Inflation</b></p>\n<p>He said inflation will pick up in coming months as current price levels are compared to depressed readings a year ago, when the economy was virtually shut down, but that effect will be temporary.</p>\n<p>Prices may also be pushed up later in the year by pent-up demand released as a growing number of Americans get vaccinated against the virus. But he said that the increase in inflation was unlikely to be large or long-lasting.</p>\n<p>Some economists, most prominently former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, have warned that Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus plan could lead to an overheating of the economy and much faster inflation -- a concern that administration officials have pushed back on as exaggerated.</p>\n<p>While Powell studiously refrained from commenting on the Biden package, he did say that there hasn’t been a strong connection between bigger budget deficits and inflation recently.</p>","source":"lsy1584095487587","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Powell Signals Fed to Keep Buying Bonds Even as Outlook Improves</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; 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And he called the recent run-up in bond yields that has unsettled the stock market “a statement of confidence” in a robust economic outlook.\nThe Fed is currently buying $120 billion of assets per month -- $80 billion of Treasury securities and $40 billion of mortgage-backed debt -- and has pledged to keep up that pace “until substantial further progress” has been made toward its goals of maximum employment and 2% inflation.\nThe chairman “gave absolutely no indication that the Fed is thinking about changing its very dovish policy stance,” Cornerstone Macro analysts Roberto Perli and Benson Durham wrote in a note to clients.\nPowell’s testimony occurred against the backdrop of growing optimism about the economy as vaccines against the coronavirus are more widely disseminated and expectations of further fiscal stimulus from President Joe Biden and Congress mount.\n\nBond yields have risen on the economy’s better prospects and in anticipation of faster inflation. Some traders have also brought forward their expectations for the Fed’s first interest-rate increase since it slashed rates effectively to zero last year.\nPowell said it was important to determine what was behind the higher bond yields, namely expectations of a return to a more normal economy.\n“In a way, it’s a statement on confidence on the part of markets that we will have a robust and ultimately complete recovery,” he said.\nMarket price action was volatile in the aftermath of Powell’s opening statement text release, with 10-year yields initially rising a couple of basis points to 1.3875% session highs, before the move quickly faded and yields dropped back lower by about the same amount.\nInterest-rate swap markets are pricing the first 25 basis point of Fed hikes around mid-2023, versus the early-2024 time frame priced in at the beginning of this month.\nTechnology company shares led a decline in U.S. stock prices on Tuesday on concern that valuations had gotten out of hand amid higher bond yields and bets on faster inflation. Even with recent weakness, though, the S&P 500 index is still up more than 70% from lows struck last March.\nPowell said he didn’t have an opinion on whether that constituted an equity market bubble, noting that there were opinions expressed on both sides of that proposition. “No one can really identify” a bubble, he said.\nPowell allowed that loose monetary policy has played a role in pushing up asset prices. But he said that other forces were also at play, including expectations of faster economic growth.\n“While we should not underestimate the challenges we currently face, developments point to an improved outlook for later this year,” Powell said. “In particular, ongoing progress in vaccinations should help speed the return to normal activities.”\nIn response to a question, the Fed chair said growth could come in this year at 6%. The economy contracted by 2.5% last year.\nThe economy started 2021 on a strong note, as retail sales and factory output accelerated. In the wake of the firmer data, Bloomberg Economics last week boosted its 2021 growth forecast to 4.6% from 3.5% and said that could rise toward 6%-7% if Biden’s $1.9 trillion aid package is enacted.\n\n What Bloomberg Economics Says...\n\n\n Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s prepared remarks before the Senate Banking Committee showed little if any deviation from the tone of recent public statements. But “no news” is news in and of itself because it shows the Fed to be unwavering in its policy stance, despite rising Treasury yields and an improving tone in much of the economic data.\n\n\n --Carl Riccadonna and Yelena Shulyatyeva, economists\n\nThe jobs market though has softened, with claims filed for unemployment benefits jumping to a four-week high in the most recent reporting period. Payrolls last month barely rose, by 49,000, after a 227,000 decline in December, and while unemployment dropped to 6.3%, that partly reflected more people leaving the workforce.\n“The high level of joblessness has been especially severe for lower-wage workers and for African Americans, Hispanics, and other minority groups,” Powell said. “The economic dislocation has upended many lives and created great uncertainty about the future.”\nHe reiterated the Fed’s pledge to keep short-term interest rates pinned near zero until the labor market has reached maximum employment and inflation has accelerated to 2% -- and is on track to moderately exceed that level for some time.\nThe personal consumption expenditures price index rose 1.3% in December 2020 from a year earlier, well below the Fed’s 2% inflation target. After stripping out volatile food and energy costs, core inflation clocked in at 1.5%.\n“I really do not expect that we’ll be in a situation where inflation rises to troubling levels,” Powell said.\nTemporary Inflation\nHe said inflation will pick up in coming months as current price levels are compared to depressed readings a year ago, when the economy was virtually shut down, but that effect will be temporary.\nPrices may also be pushed up later in the year by pent-up demand released as a growing number of Americans get vaccinated against the virus. But he said that the increase in inflation was unlikely to be large or long-lasting.\nSome economists, most prominently former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, have warned that Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus plan could lead to an overheating of the economy and much faster inflation -- a concern that administration officials have pushed back on as exaggerated.\nWhile Powell studiously refrained from commenting on the Biden package, he did say that there hasn’t been a strong connection between bigger budget deficits and inflation recently.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":363219368,"gmtCreate":1614141292654,"gmtModify":1634551010418,"author":{"id":"3555199737903833","authorId":"3555199737903833","name":"Rocketupup","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/feac8c57fda8c223f1c0a55775d10484","vip":1,"crmLevel":6,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"authorIdStr":"3555199737903833","idStr":"3555199737903833"},"htmlText":"Bo-well","listText":"Bo-well","text":"Bo-well","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/363219368","repostId":1123329535,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1123329535","pubTimestamp":1614109924,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1123329535?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-02-24 03:52","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Powell Signals Fed to Keep Buying Bonds Even as Outlook Improves","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1123329535","media":"Bloomberg","summary":"Fed chief plays down concerns about inflation, rising yields\nPowell says U.S. economy could expand b","content":"<ul>\n <li>Fed chief plays down concerns about inflation, rising yields</li>\n <li>Powell says U.S. economy could expand by 6% this year</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell signaled that the central bank was nowhere close to pulling back on its support for the pandemic-damaged U.S. economy even as he voiced expectations for a return to more normal, improved activity later this year.</p>\n<p>“The economy is a long way from our employment and inflation goals, and it is likely to take some time for substantial further progress to be achieved,” he told the Senate Banking Committee Tuesday.</p>\n<p>He also played down concerns of an inflationary outbreak from another big fiscal stimulus package or from an unleashing of pent-up demand as a growing number of Americans are vaccinated against the virus. And he called the recent run-up in bond yields that has unsettled the stock market “a statement of confidence” in a robust economic outlook.</p>\n<p>The Fed is currently buying $120 billion of assets per month -- $80 billion of Treasury securities and $40 billion of mortgage-backed debt -- and has pledged to keep up that pace “until substantial further progress” has been made toward its goals of maximum employment and 2% inflation.</p>\n<p>The chairman “gave absolutely no indication that the Fed is thinking about changing its very dovish policy stance,” Cornerstone Macro analysts Roberto Perli and Benson Durham wrote in a note to clients.</p>\n<p>Powell’s testimony occurred against the backdrop of growing optimism about the economy as vaccines against the coronavirus are more widely disseminated and expectations of further fiscal stimulus from President Joe Biden and Congress mount.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0ebf0c22dfcb8ea4a998998b28e8c4cd\" tg-width=\"1200\" tg-height=\"675\"></p>\n<p>Bond yields have risen on the economy’s better prospects and in anticipation of faster inflation. Some traders have also brought forward their expectations for the Fed’s first interest-rate increase since it slashed rates effectively to zero last year.</p>\n<p>Powell said it was important to determine what was behind the higher bond yields, namely expectations of a return to a more normal economy.</p>\n<p>“In a way, it’s a statement on confidence on the part of markets that we will have a robust and ultimately complete recovery,” he said.</p>\n<p>Market price action was volatile in the aftermath of Powell’s opening statement text release, with 10-year yields initially rising a couple of basis points to 1.3875% session highs, before the move quickly faded and yields dropped back lower by about the same amount.</p>\n<p>Interest-rate swap markets are pricing the first 25 basis point of Fed hikes around mid-2023, versus the early-2024 time frame priced in at the beginning of this month.</p>\n<p>Technology company shares led a decline in U.S. stock prices on Tuesday on concern that valuations had gotten out of hand amid higher bond yields and bets on faster inflation. Even with recent weakness, though, the S&amp;P 500 index is still up more than 70% from lows struck last March.</p>\n<p>Powell said he didn’t have an opinion on whether that constituted an equity market bubble, noting that there were opinions expressed on both sides of that proposition. “No one can really identify” a bubble, he said.</p>\n<p>Powell allowed that loose monetary policy has played a role in pushing up asset prices. But he said that other forces were also at play, including expectations of faster economic growth.</p>\n<p>“While we should not underestimate the challenges we currently face, developments point to an improved outlook for later this year,” Powell said. “In particular, ongoing progress in vaccinations should help speed the return to normal activities.”</p>\n<p>In response to a question, the Fed chair said growth could come in this year at 6%. The economy contracted by 2.5% last year.</p>\n<p>The economy started 2021 on a strong&nbsp;note, as retail sales and factory output accelerated. In the wake of the firmer data, Bloomberg Economics last week&nbsp;boosted&nbsp;its 2021 growth forecast to 4.6% from 3.5% and said that could rise toward 6%-7% if Biden’s $1.9 trillion aid package is enacted.</p>\n<blockquote>\n What Bloomberg Economics Says...\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s prepared remarks before the Senate Banking Committee showed little if any deviation from the tone of recent public statements. But “no news” is news in and of itself because it shows the Fed to be unwavering in its policy stance, despite rising Treasury yields and an improving tone in much of the economic data.\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n --Carl Riccadonna and Yelena Shulyatyeva, economists\n</blockquote>\n<p>The jobs market though has softened, with claims filed for unemployment benefits jumping to a four-week&nbsp;high&nbsp;in the most recent reporting period. Payrolls last month barely rose, by 49,000, after a 227,000 decline in December, and while&nbsp;unemployment&nbsp;dropped to 6.3%, that partly reflected more people leaving the workforce.</p>\n<p>“The high level of joblessness has been especially severe for lower-wage workers and for African Americans, Hispanics, and other minority groups,” Powell said. “The economic dislocation has upended many lives and created great uncertainty about the future.”</p>\n<p>He reiterated the Fed’s pledge to keep short-term interest rates pinned near zero until the labor market has reached maximum employment and inflation has accelerated to 2% -- and is on track to moderately exceed that level for some time.</p>\n<p>The personal consumption expenditures price index rose 1.3% in December 2020 from a year earlier, well below the Fed’s 2% inflation target. After stripping out volatile food and energy costs, core inflation clocked in at 1.5%.</p>\n<p>“I really do not expect that we’ll be in a situation where inflation rises to troubling levels,” Powell said.</p>\n<p><b>Temporary Inflation</b></p>\n<p>He said inflation will pick up in coming months as current price levels are compared to depressed readings a year ago, when the economy was virtually shut down, but that effect will be temporary.</p>\n<p>Prices may also be pushed up later in the year by pent-up demand released as a growing number of Americans get vaccinated against the virus. But he said that the increase in inflation was unlikely to be large or long-lasting.</p>\n<p>Some economists, most prominently former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, have warned that Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus plan could lead to an overheating of the economy and much faster inflation -- a concern that administration officials have pushed back on as exaggerated.</p>\n<p>While Powell studiously refrained from commenting on the Biden package, he did say that there hasn’t been a strong connection between bigger budget deficits and inflation recently.</p>","source":"lsy1584095487587","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Powell Signals Fed to Keep Buying Bonds Even as Outlook Improves</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; 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And he called the recent run-up in bond yields that has unsettled the stock market “a statement of confidence” in a robust economic outlook.\nThe Fed is currently buying $120 billion of assets per month -- $80 billion of Treasury securities and $40 billion of mortgage-backed debt -- and has pledged to keep up that pace “until substantial further progress” has been made toward its goals of maximum employment and 2% inflation.\nThe chairman “gave absolutely no indication that the Fed is thinking about changing its very dovish policy stance,” Cornerstone Macro analysts Roberto Perli and Benson Durham wrote in a note to clients.\nPowell’s testimony occurred against the backdrop of growing optimism about the economy as vaccines against the coronavirus are more widely disseminated and expectations of further fiscal stimulus from President Joe Biden and Congress mount.\n\nBond yields have risen on the economy’s better prospects and in anticipation of faster inflation. Some traders have also brought forward their expectations for the Fed’s first interest-rate increase since it slashed rates effectively to zero last year.\nPowell said it was important to determine what was behind the higher bond yields, namely expectations of a return to a more normal economy.\n“In a way, it’s a statement on confidence on the part of markets that we will have a robust and ultimately complete recovery,” he said.\nMarket price action was volatile in the aftermath of Powell’s opening statement text release, with 10-year yields initially rising a couple of basis points to 1.3875% session highs, before the move quickly faded and yields dropped back lower by about the same amount.\nInterest-rate swap markets are pricing the first 25 basis point of Fed hikes around mid-2023, versus the early-2024 time frame priced in at the beginning of this month.\nTechnology company shares led a decline in U.S. stock prices on Tuesday on concern that valuations had gotten out of hand amid higher bond yields and bets on faster inflation. Even with recent weakness, though, the S&P 500 index is still up more than 70% from lows struck last March.\nPowell said he didn’t have an opinion on whether that constituted an equity market bubble, noting that there were opinions expressed on both sides of that proposition. “No one can really identify” a bubble, he said.\nPowell allowed that loose monetary policy has played a role in pushing up asset prices. But he said that other forces were also at play, including expectations of faster economic growth.\n“While we should not underestimate the challenges we currently face, developments point to an improved outlook for later this year,” Powell said. “In particular, ongoing progress in vaccinations should help speed the return to normal activities.”\nIn response to a question, the Fed chair said growth could come in this year at 6%. The economy contracted by 2.5% last year.\nThe economy started 2021 on a strong note, as retail sales and factory output accelerated. In the wake of the firmer data, Bloomberg Economics last week boosted its 2021 growth forecast to 4.6% from 3.5% and said that could rise toward 6%-7% if Biden’s $1.9 trillion aid package is enacted.\n\n What Bloomberg Economics Says...\n\n\n Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s prepared remarks before the Senate Banking Committee showed little if any deviation from the tone of recent public statements. But “no news” is news in and of itself because it shows the Fed to be unwavering in its policy stance, despite rising Treasury yields and an improving tone in much of the economic data.\n\n\n --Carl Riccadonna and Yelena Shulyatyeva, economists\n\nThe jobs market though has softened, with claims filed for unemployment benefits jumping to a four-week high in the most recent reporting period. Payrolls last month barely rose, by 49,000, after a 227,000 decline in December, and while unemployment dropped to 6.3%, that partly reflected more people leaving the workforce.\n“The high level of joblessness has been especially severe for lower-wage workers and for African Americans, Hispanics, and other minority groups,” Powell said. “The economic dislocation has upended many lives and created great uncertainty about the future.”\nHe reiterated the Fed’s pledge to keep short-term interest rates pinned near zero until the labor market has reached maximum employment and inflation has accelerated to 2% -- and is on track to moderately exceed that level for some time.\nThe personal consumption expenditures price index rose 1.3% in December 2020 from a year earlier, well below the Fed’s 2% inflation target. After stripping out volatile food and energy costs, core inflation clocked in at 1.5%.\n“I really do not expect that we’ll be in a situation where inflation rises to troubling levels,” Powell said.\nTemporary Inflation\nHe said inflation will pick up in coming months as current price levels are compared to depressed readings a year ago, when the economy was virtually shut down, but that effect will be temporary.\nPrices may also be pushed up later in the year by pent-up demand released as a growing number of Americans get vaccinated against the virus. But he said that the increase in inflation was unlikely to be large or long-lasting.\nSome economists, most prominently former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, have warned that Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus plan could lead to an overheating of the economy and much faster inflation -- a concern that administration officials have pushed back on as exaggerated.\nWhile Powell studiously refrained from commenting on the Biden package, he did say that there hasn’t been a strong connection between bigger budget deficits and inflation recently.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":363210526,"gmtCreate":1614141213065,"gmtModify":1634551010538,"author":{"id":"3565780038435064","authorId":"3565780038435064","name":"JeromeRocket","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/31e2eb1fe4f0381d7ef29913fef5bfee","vip":1,"crmLevel":5,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"authorIdStr":"3565780038435064","idStr":"3565780038435064"},"htmlText":"Have faith&nbsp;","listText":"Have faith&nbsp;","text":"Have faith","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":3,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/363210526","repostId":1123329535,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1123329535","pubTimestamp":1614109924,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1123329535?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-02-24 03:52","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Powell Signals Fed to Keep Buying Bonds Even as Outlook Improves","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1123329535","media":"Bloomberg","summary":"Fed chief plays down concerns about inflation, rising yields\nPowell says U.S. economy could expand b","content":"<ul>\n <li>Fed chief plays down concerns about inflation, rising yields</li>\n <li>Powell says U.S. economy could expand by 6% this year</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell signaled that the central bank was nowhere close to pulling back on its support for the pandemic-damaged U.S. economy even as he voiced expectations for a return to more normal, improved activity later this year.</p>\n<p>“The economy is a long way from our employment and inflation goals, and it is likely to take some time for substantial further progress to be achieved,” he told the Senate Banking Committee Tuesday.</p>\n<p>He also played down concerns of an inflationary outbreak from another big fiscal stimulus package or from an unleashing of pent-up demand as a growing number of Americans are vaccinated against the virus. And he called the recent run-up in bond yields that has unsettled the stock market “a statement of confidence” in a robust economic outlook.</p>\n<p>The Fed is currently buying $120 billion of assets per month -- $80 billion of Treasury securities and $40 billion of mortgage-backed debt -- and has pledged to keep up that pace “until substantial further progress” has been made toward its goals of maximum employment and 2% inflation.</p>\n<p>The chairman “gave absolutely no indication that the Fed is thinking about changing its very dovish policy stance,” Cornerstone Macro analysts Roberto Perli and Benson Durham wrote in a note to clients.</p>\n<p>Powell’s testimony occurred against the backdrop of growing optimism about the economy as vaccines against the coronavirus are more widely disseminated and expectations of further fiscal stimulus from President Joe Biden and Congress mount.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0ebf0c22dfcb8ea4a998998b28e8c4cd\" tg-width=\"1200\" tg-height=\"675\"></p>\n<p>Bond yields have risen on the economy’s better prospects and in anticipation of faster inflation. Some traders have also brought forward their expectations for the Fed’s first interest-rate increase since it slashed rates effectively to zero last year.</p>\n<p>Powell said it was important to determine what was behind the higher bond yields, namely expectations of a return to a more normal economy.</p>\n<p>“In a way, it’s a statement on confidence on the part of markets that we will have a robust and ultimately complete recovery,” he said.</p>\n<p>Market price action was volatile in the aftermath of Powell’s opening statement text release, with 10-year yields initially rising a couple of basis points to 1.3875% session highs, before the move quickly faded and yields dropped back lower by about the same amount.</p>\n<p>Interest-rate swap markets are pricing the first 25 basis point of Fed hikes around mid-2023, versus the early-2024 time frame priced in at the beginning of this month.</p>\n<p>Technology company shares led a decline in U.S. stock prices on Tuesday on concern that valuations had gotten out of hand amid higher bond yields and bets on faster inflation. Even with recent weakness, though, the S&amp;P 500 index is still up more than 70% from lows struck last March.</p>\n<p>Powell said he didn’t have an opinion on whether that constituted an equity market bubble, noting that there were opinions expressed on both sides of that proposition. “No one can really identify” a bubble, he said.</p>\n<p>Powell allowed that loose monetary policy has played a role in pushing up asset prices. But he said that other forces were also at play, including expectations of faster economic growth.</p>\n<p>“While we should not underestimate the challenges we currently face, developments point to an improved outlook for later this year,” Powell said. “In particular, ongoing progress in vaccinations should help speed the return to normal activities.”</p>\n<p>In response to a question, the Fed chair said growth could come in this year at 6%. The economy contracted by 2.5% last year.</p>\n<p>The economy started 2021 on a strong&nbsp;note, as retail sales and factory output accelerated. In the wake of the firmer data, Bloomberg Economics last week&nbsp;boosted&nbsp;its 2021 growth forecast to 4.6% from 3.5% and said that could rise toward 6%-7% if Biden’s $1.9 trillion aid package is enacted.</p>\n<blockquote>\n What Bloomberg Economics Says...\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s prepared remarks before the Senate Banking Committee showed little if any deviation from the tone of recent public statements. But “no news” is news in and of itself because it shows the Fed to be unwavering in its policy stance, despite rising Treasury yields and an improving tone in much of the economic data.\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n --Carl Riccadonna and Yelena Shulyatyeva, economists\n</blockquote>\n<p>The jobs market though has softened, with claims filed for unemployment benefits jumping to a four-week&nbsp;high&nbsp;in the most recent reporting period. Payrolls last month barely rose, by 49,000, after a 227,000 decline in December, and while&nbsp;unemployment&nbsp;dropped to 6.3%, that partly reflected more people leaving the workforce.</p>\n<p>“The high level of joblessness has been especially severe for lower-wage workers and for African Americans, Hispanics, and other minority groups,” Powell said. “The economic dislocation has upended many lives and created great uncertainty about the future.”</p>\n<p>He reiterated the Fed’s pledge to keep short-term interest rates pinned near zero until the labor market has reached maximum employment and inflation has accelerated to 2% -- and is on track to moderately exceed that level for some time.</p>\n<p>The personal consumption expenditures price index rose 1.3% in December 2020 from a year earlier, well below the Fed’s 2% inflation target. After stripping out volatile food and energy costs, core inflation clocked in at 1.5%.</p>\n<p>“I really do not expect that we’ll be in a situation where inflation rises to troubling levels,” Powell said.</p>\n<p><b>Temporary Inflation</b></p>\n<p>He said inflation will pick up in coming months as current price levels are compared to depressed readings a year ago, when the economy was virtually shut down, but that effect will be temporary.</p>\n<p>Prices may also be pushed up later in the year by pent-up demand released as a growing number of Americans get vaccinated against the virus. But he said that the increase in inflation was unlikely to be large or long-lasting.</p>\n<p>Some economists, most prominently former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, have warned that Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus plan could lead to an overheating of the economy and much faster inflation -- a concern that administration officials have pushed back on as exaggerated.</p>\n<p>While Powell studiously refrained from commenting on the Biden package, he did say that there hasn’t been a strong connection between bigger budget deficits and inflation recently.</p>","source":"lsy1584095487587","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Powell Signals Fed to Keep Buying Bonds Even as Outlook Improves</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; 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And he called the recent run-up in bond yields that has unsettled the stock market “a statement of confidence” in a robust economic outlook.\nThe Fed is currently buying $120 billion of assets per month -- $80 billion of Treasury securities and $40 billion of mortgage-backed debt -- and has pledged to keep up that pace “until substantial further progress” has been made toward its goals of maximum employment and 2% inflation.\nThe chairman “gave absolutely no indication that the Fed is thinking about changing its very dovish policy stance,” Cornerstone Macro analysts Roberto Perli and Benson Durham wrote in a note to clients.\nPowell’s testimony occurred against the backdrop of growing optimism about the economy as vaccines against the coronavirus are more widely disseminated and expectations of further fiscal stimulus from President Joe Biden and Congress mount.\n\nBond yields have risen on the economy’s better prospects and in anticipation of faster inflation. Some traders have also brought forward their expectations for the Fed’s first interest-rate increase since it slashed rates effectively to zero last year.\nPowell said it was important to determine what was behind the higher bond yields, namely expectations of a return to a more normal economy.\n“In a way, it’s a statement on confidence on the part of markets that we will have a robust and ultimately complete recovery,” he said.\nMarket price action was volatile in the aftermath of Powell’s opening statement text release, with 10-year yields initially rising a couple of basis points to 1.3875% session highs, before the move quickly faded and yields dropped back lower by about the same amount.\nInterest-rate swap markets are pricing the first 25 basis point of Fed hikes around mid-2023, versus the early-2024 time frame priced in at the beginning of this month.\nTechnology company shares led a decline in U.S. stock prices on Tuesday on concern that valuations had gotten out of hand amid higher bond yields and bets on faster inflation. Even with recent weakness, though, the S&P 500 index is still up more than 70% from lows struck last March.\nPowell said he didn’t have an opinion on whether that constituted an equity market bubble, noting that there were opinions expressed on both sides of that proposition. “No one can really identify” a bubble, he said.\nPowell allowed that loose monetary policy has played a role in pushing up asset prices. But he said that other forces were also at play, including expectations of faster economic growth.\n“While we should not underestimate the challenges we currently face, developments point to an improved outlook for later this year,” Powell said. “In particular, ongoing progress in vaccinations should help speed the return to normal activities.”\nIn response to a question, the Fed chair said growth could come in this year at 6%. The economy contracted by 2.5% last year.\nThe economy started 2021 on a strong note, as retail sales and factory output accelerated. In the wake of the firmer data, Bloomberg Economics last week boosted its 2021 growth forecast to 4.6% from 3.5% and said that could rise toward 6%-7% if Biden’s $1.9 trillion aid package is enacted.\n\n What Bloomberg Economics Says...\n\n\n Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s prepared remarks before the Senate Banking Committee showed little if any deviation from the tone of recent public statements. But “no news” is news in and of itself because it shows the Fed to be unwavering in its policy stance, despite rising Treasury yields and an improving tone in much of the economic data.\n\n\n --Carl Riccadonna and Yelena Shulyatyeva, economists\n\nThe jobs market though has softened, with claims filed for unemployment benefits jumping to a four-week high in the most recent reporting period. Payrolls last month barely rose, by 49,000, after a 227,000 decline in December, and while unemployment dropped to 6.3%, that partly reflected more people leaving the workforce.\n“The high level of joblessness has been especially severe for lower-wage workers and for African Americans, Hispanics, and other minority groups,” Powell said. “The economic dislocation has upended many lives and created great uncertainty about the future.”\nHe reiterated the Fed’s pledge to keep short-term interest rates pinned near zero until the labor market has reached maximum employment and inflation has accelerated to 2% -- and is on track to moderately exceed that level for some time.\nThe personal consumption expenditures price index rose 1.3% in December 2020 from a year earlier, well below the Fed’s 2% inflation target. After stripping out volatile food and energy costs, core inflation clocked in at 1.5%.\n“I really do not expect that we’ll be in a situation where inflation rises to troubling levels,” Powell said.\nTemporary Inflation\nHe said inflation will pick up in coming months as current price levels are compared to depressed readings a year ago, when the economy was virtually shut down, but that effect will be temporary.\nPrices may also be pushed up later in the year by pent-up demand released as a growing number of Americans get vaccinated against the virus. But he said that the increase in inflation was unlikely to be large or long-lasting.\nSome economists, most prominently former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, have warned that Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus plan could lead to an overheating of the economy and much faster inflation -- a concern that administration officials have pushed back on as exaggerated.\nWhile Powell studiously refrained from commenting on the Biden package, he did say that there hasn’t been a strong connection between bigger budget deficits and inflation recently.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":363235999,"gmtCreate":1614140843311,"gmtModify":1634551012283,"author":{"id":"3574295750075516","authorId":"3574295750075516","name":"deeplearning","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d2aba15d86bd565c323909be00778983","vip":1,"crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"authorIdStr":"3574295750075516","idStr":"3574295750075516"},"htmlText":"Hope the market recovers and we start to see more green again","listText":"Hope the market recovers and we start to see more green again","text":"Hope the market recovers and we start to see more green again","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/363235999","repostId":1123329535,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1123329535","pubTimestamp":1614109924,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1123329535?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-02-24 03:52","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Powell Signals Fed to Keep Buying Bonds Even as Outlook Improves","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1123329535","media":"Bloomberg","summary":"Fed chief plays down concerns about inflation, rising yields\nPowell says U.S. economy could expand b","content":"<ul>\n <li>Fed chief plays down concerns about inflation, rising yields</li>\n <li>Powell says U.S. economy could expand by 6% this year</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell signaled that the central bank was nowhere close to pulling back on its support for the pandemic-damaged U.S. economy even as he voiced expectations for a return to more normal, improved activity later this year.</p>\n<p>“The economy is a long way from our employment and inflation goals, and it is likely to take some time for substantial further progress to be achieved,” he told the Senate Banking Committee Tuesday.</p>\n<p>He also played down concerns of an inflationary outbreak from another big fiscal stimulus package or from an unleashing of pent-up demand as a growing number of Americans are vaccinated against the virus. And he called the recent run-up in bond yields that has unsettled the stock market “a statement of confidence” in a robust economic outlook.</p>\n<p>The Fed is currently buying $120 billion of assets per month -- $80 billion of Treasury securities and $40 billion of mortgage-backed debt -- and has pledged to keep up that pace “until substantial further progress” has been made toward its goals of maximum employment and 2% inflation.</p>\n<p>The chairman “gave absolutely no indication that the Fed is thinking about changing its very dovish policy stance,” Cornerstone Macro analysts Roberto Perli and Benson Durham wrote in a note to clients.</p>\n<p>Powell’s testimony occurred against the backdrop of growing optimism about the economy as vaccines against the coronavirus are more widely disseminated and expectations of further fiscal stimulus from President Joe Biden and Congress mount.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0ebf0c22dfcb8ea4a998998b28e8c4cd\" tg-width=\"1200\" tg-height=\"675\"></p>\n<p>Bond yields have risen on the economy’s better prospects and in anticipation of faster inflation. Some traders have also brought forward their expectations for the Fed’s first interest-rate increase since it slashed rates effectively to zero last year.</p>\n<p>Powell said it was important to determine what was behind the higher bond yields, namely expectations of a return to a more normal economy.</p>\n<p>“In a way, it’s a statement on confidence on the part of markets that we will have a robust and ultimately complete recovery,” he said.</p>\n<p>Market price action was volatile in the aftermath of Powell’s opening statement text release, with 10-year yields initially rising a couple of basis points to 1.3875% session highs, before the move quickly faded and yields dropped back lower by about the same amount.</p>\n<p>Interest-rate swap markets are pricing the first 25 basis point of Fed hikes around mid-2023, versus the early-2024 time frame priced in at the beginning of this month.</p>\n<p>Technology company shares led a decline in U.S. stock prices on Tuesday on concern that valuations had gotten out of hand amid higher bond yields and bets on faster inflation. Even with recent weakness, though, the S&amp;P 500 index is still up more than 70% from lows struck last March.</p>\n<p>Powell said he didn’t have an opinion on whether that constituted an equity market bubble, noting that there were opinions expressed on both sides of that proposition. “No one can really identify” a bubble, he said.</p>\n<p>Powell allowed that loose monetary policy has played a role in pushing up asset prices. But he said that other forces were also at play, including expectations of faster economic growth.</p>\n<p>“While we should not underestimate the challenges we currently face, developments point to an improved outlook for later this year,” Powell said. “In particular, ongoing progress in vaccinations should help speed the return to normal activities.”</p>\n<p>In response to a question, the Fed chair said growth could come in this year at 6%. The economy contracted by 2.5% last year.</p>\n<p>The economy started 2021 on a strong&nbsp;note, as retail sales and factory output accelerated. In the wake of the firmer data, Bloomberg Economics last week&nbsp;boosted&nbsp;its 2021 growth forecast to 4.6% from 3.5% and said that could rise toward 6%-7% if Biden’s $1.9 trillion aid package is enacted.</p>\n<blockquote>\n What Bloomberg Economics Says...\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s prepared remarks before the Senate Banking Committee showed little if any deviation from the tone of recent public statements. But “no news” is news in and of itself because it shows the Fed to be unwavering in its policy stance, despite rising Treasury yields and an improving tone in much of the economic data.\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n --Carl Riccadonna and Yelena Shulyatyeva, economists\n</blockquote>\n<p>The jobs market though has softened, with claims filed for unemployment benefits jumping to a four-week&nbsp;high&nbsp;in the most recent reporting period. Payrolls last month barely rose, by 49,000, after a 227,000 decline in December, and while&nbsp;unemployment&nbsp;dropped to 6.3%, that partly reflected more people leaving the workforce.</p>\n<p>“The high level of joblessness has been especially severe for lower-wage workers and for African Americans, Hispanics, and other minority groups,” Powell said. “The economic dislocation has upended many lives and created great uncertainty about the future.”</p>\n<p>He reiterated the Fed’s pledge to keep short-term interest rates pinned near zero until the labor market has reached maximum employment and inflation has accelerated to 2% -- and is on track to moderately exceed that level for some time.</p>\n<p>The personal consumption expenditures price index rose 1.3% in December 2020 from a year earlier, well below the Fed’s 2% inflation target. After stripping out volatile food and energy costs, core inflation clocked in at 1.5%.</p>\n<p>“I really do not expect that we’ll be in a situation where inflation rises to troubling levels,” Powell said.</p>\n<p><b>Temporary Inflation</b></p>\n<p>He said inflation will pick up in coming months as current price levels are compared to depressed readings a year ago, when the economy was virtually shut down, but that effect will be temporary.</p>\n<p>Prices may also be pushed up later in the year by pent-up demand released as a growing number of Americans get vaccinated against the virus. But he said that the increase in inflation was unlikely to be large or long-lasting.</p>\n<p>Some economists, most prominently former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, have warned that Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus plan could lead to an overheating of the economy and much faster inflation -- a concern that administration officials have pushed back on as exaggerated.</p>\n<p>While Powell studiously refrained from commenting on the Biden package, he did say that there hasn’t been a strong connection between bigger budget deficits and inflation recently.</p>","source":"lsy1584095487587","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Powell Signals Fed to Keep Buying Bonds Even as Outlook Improves</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; 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And he called the recent run-up in bond yields that has unsettled the stock market “a statement of confidence” in a robust economic outlook.\nThe Fed is currently buying $120 billion of assets per month -- $80 billion of Treasury securities and $40 billion of mortgage-backed debt -- and has pledged to keep up that pace “until substantial further progress” has been made toward its goals of maximum employment and 2% inflation.\nThe chairman “gave absolutely no indication that the Fed is thinking about changing its very dovish policy stance,” Cornerstone Macro analysts Roberto Perli and Benson Durham wrote in a note to clients.\nPowell’s testimony occurred against the backdrop of growing optimism about the economy as vaccines against the coronavirus are more widely disseminated and expectations of further fiscal stimulus from President Joe Biden and Congress mount.\n\nBond yields have risen on the economy’s better prospects and in anticipation of faster inflation. Some traders have also brought forward their expectations for the Fed’s first interest-rate increase since it slashed rates effectively to zero last year.\nPowell said it was important to determine what was behind the higher bond yields, namely expectations of a return to a more normal economy.\n“In a way, it’s a statement on confidence on the part of markets that we will have a robust and ultimately complete recovery,” he said.\nMarket price action was volatile in the aftermath of Powell’s opening statement text release, with 10-year yields initially rising a couple of basis points to 1.3875% session highs, before the move quickly faded and yields dropped back lower by about the same amount.\nInterest-rate swap markets are pricing the first 25 basis point of Fed hikes around mid-2023, versus the early-2024 time frame priced in at the beginning of this month.\nTechnology company shares led a decline in U.S. stock prices on Tuesday on concern that valuations had gotten out of hand amid higher bond yields and bets on faster inflation. Even with recent weakness, though, the S&P 500 index is still up more than 70% from lows struck last March.\nPowell said he didn’t have an opinion on whether that constituted an equity market bubble, noting that there were opinions expressed on both sides of that proposition. “No one can really identify” a bubble, he said.\nPowell allowed that loose monetary policy has played a role in pushing up asset prices. But he said that other forces were also at play, including expectations of faster economic growth.\n“While we should not underestimate the challenges we currently face, developments point to an improved outlook for later this year,” Powell said. “In particular, ongoing progress in vaccinations should help speed the return to normal activities.”\nIn response to a question, the Fed chair said growth could come in this year at 6%. The economy contracted by 2.5% last year.\nThe economy started 2021 on a strong note, as retail sales and factory output accelerated. In the wake of the firmer data, Bloomberg Economics last week boosted its 2021 growth forecast to 4.6% from 3.5% and said that could rise toward 6%-7% if Biden’s $1.9 trillion aid package is enacted.\n\n What Bloomberg Economics Says...\n\n\n Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s prepared remarks before the Senate Banking Committee showed little if any deviation from the tone of recent public statements. But “no news” is news in and of itself because it shows the Fed to be unwavering in its policy stance, despite rising Treasury yields and an improving tone in much of the economic data.\n\n\n --Carl Riccadonna and Yelena Shulyatyeva, economists\n\nThe jobs market though has softened, with claims filed for unemployment benefits jumping to a four-week high in the most recent reporting period. Payrolls last month barely rose, by 49,000, after a 227,000 decline in December, and while unemployment dropped to 6.3%, that partly reflected more people leaving the workforce.\n“The high level of joblessness has been especially severe for lower-wage workers and for African Americans, Hispanics, and other minority groups,” Powell said. “The economic dislocation has upended many lives and created great uncertainty about the future.”\nHe reiterated the Fed’s pledge to keep short-term interest rates pinned near zero until the labor market has reached maximum employment and inflation has accelerated to 2% -- and is on track to moderately exceed that level for some time.\nThe personal consumption expenditures price index rose 1.3% in December 2020 from a year earlier, well below the Fed’s 2% inflation target. After stripping out volatile food and energy costs, core inflation clocked in at 1.5%.\n“I really do not expect that we’ll be in a situation where inflation rises to troubling levels,” Powell said.\nTemporary Inflation\nHe said inflation will pick up in coming months as current price levels are compared to depressed readings a year ago, when the economy was virtually shut down, but that effect will be temporary.\nPrices may also be pushed up later in the year by pent-up demand released as a growing number of Americans get vaccinated against the virus. But he said that the increase in inflation was unlikely to be large or long-lasting.\nSome economists, most prominently former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, have warned that Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus plan could lead to an overheating of the economy and much faster inflation -- a concern that administration officials have pushed back on as exaggerated.\nWhile Powell studiously refrained from commenting on the Biden package, he did say that there hasn’t been a strong connection between bigger budget deficits and inflation recently.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":3648219,"gmtCreate":1614144106112,"gmtModify":1635761652427,"authorId":3560139863772426,"author":{"id":3560139863772426,"idStr":"3560139863772426","authorId":3560139863772426,"name":"Jon777","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dfb83fe0ad88b21f2f1625bb19368212","vip":1,"crmLevel":5,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":363235999,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Yes","text":"Yes","html":"Yes"}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":363232953,"gmtCreate":1614140623972,"gmtModify":1634551012746,"author":{"id":"3570854633700902","authorId":"3570854633700902","name":"fionnylam","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/535b1951105233264718e9ccfa0e1ceb","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"authorIdStr":"3570854633700902","idStr":"3570854633700902"},"htmlText":"Keep faith never loss","listText":"Keep faith never loss","text":"Keep faith never loss","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/363232953","repostId":1123329535,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1123329535","pubTimestamp":1614109924,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1123329535?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-02-24 03:52","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Powell Signals Fed to Keep Buying Bonds Even as Outlook Improves","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1123329535","media":"Bloomberg","summary":"Fed chief plays down concerns about inflation, rising yields\nPowell says U.S. economy could expand b","content":"<ul>\n <li>Fed chief plays down concerns about inflation, rising yields</li>\n <li>Powell says U.S. economy could expand by 6% this year</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell signaled that the central bank was nowhere close to pulling back on its support for the pandemic-damaged U.S. economy even as he voiced expectations for a return to more normal, improved activity later this year.</p>\n<p>“The economy is a long way from our employment and inflation goals, and it is likely to take some time for substantial further progress to be achieved,” he told the Senate Banking Committee Tuesday.</p>\n<p>He also played down concerns of an inflationary outbreak from another big fiscal stimulus package or from an unleashing of pent-up demand as a growing number of Americans are vaccinated against the virus. And he called the recent run-up in bond yields that has unsettled the stock market “a statement of confidence” in a robust economic outlook.</p>\n<p>The Fed is currently buying $120 billion of assets per month -- $80 billion of Treasury securities and $40 billion of mortgage-backed debt -- and has pledged to keep up that pace “until substantial further progress” has been made toward its goals of maximum employment and 2% inflation.</p>\n<p>The chairman “gave absolutely no indication that the Fed is thinking about changing its very dovish policy stance,” Cornerstone Macro analysts Roberto Perli and Benson Durham wrote in a note to clients.</p>\n<p>Powell’s testimony occurred against the backdrop of growing optimism about the economy as vaccines against the coronavirus are more widely disseminated and expectations of further fiscal stimulus from President Joe Biden and Congress mount.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0ebf0c22dfcb8ea4a998998b28e8c4cd\" tg-width=\"1200\" tg-height=\"675\"></p>\n<p>Bond yields have risen on the economy’s better prospects and in anticipation of faster inflation. Some traders have also brought forward their expectations for the Fed’s first interest-rate increase since it slashed rates effectively to zero last year.</p>\n<p>Powell said it was important to determine what was behind the higher bond yields, namely expectations of a return to a more normal economy.</p>\n<p>“In a way, it’s a statement on confidence on the part of markets that we will have a robust and ultimately complete recovery,” he said.</p>\n<p>Market price action was volatile in the aftermath of Powell’s opening statement text release, with 10-year yields initially rising a couple of basis points to 1.3875% session highs, before the move quickly faded and yields dropped back lower by about the same amount.</p>\n<p>Interest-rate swap markets are pricing the first 25 basis point of Fed hikes around mid-2023, versus the early-2024 time frame priced in at the beginning of this month.</p>\n<p>Technology company shares led a decline in U.S. stock prices on Tuesday on concern that valuations had gotten out of hand amid higher bond yields and bets on faster inflation. Even with recent weakness, though, the S&amp;P 500 index is still up more than 70% from lows struck last March.</p>\n<p>Powell said he didn’t have an opinion on whether that constituted an equity market bubble, noting that there were opinions expressed on both sides of that proposition. “No one can really identify” a bubble, he said.</p>\n<p>Powell allowed that loose monetary policy has played a role in pushing up asset prices. But he said that other forces were also at play, including expectations of faster economic growth.</p>\n<p>“While we should not underestimate the challenges we currently face, developments point to an improved outlook for later this year,” Powell said. “In particular, ongoing progress in vaccinations should help speed the return to normal activities.”</p>\n<p>In response to a question, the Fed chair said growth could come in this year at 6%. The economy contracted by 2.5% last year.</p>\n<p>The economy started 2021 on a strong&nbsp;note, as retail sales and factory output accelerated. In the wake of the firmer data, Bloomberg Economics last week&nbsp;boosted&nbsp;its 2021 growth forecast to 4.6% from 3.5% and said that could rise toward 6%-7% if Biden’s $1.9 trillion aid package is enacted.</p>\n<blockquote>\n What Bloomberg Economics Says...\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s prepared remarks before the Senate Banking Committee showed little if any deviation from the tone of recent public statements. But “no news” is news in and of itself because it shows the Fed to be unwavering in its policy stance, despite rising Treasury yields and an improving tone in much of the economic data.\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n --Carl Riccadonna and Yelena Shulyatyeva, economists\n</blockquote>\n<p>The jobs market though has softened, with claims filed for unemployment benefits jumping to a four-week&nbsp;high&nbsp;in the most recent reporting period. Payrolls last month barely rose, by 49,000, after a 227,000 decline in December, and while&nbsp;unemployment&nbsp;dropped to 6.3%, that partly reflected more people leaving the workforce.</p>\n<p>“The high level of joblessness has been especially severe for lower-wage workers and for African Americans, Hispanics, and other minority groups,” Powell said. “The economic dislocation has upended many lives and created great uncertainty about the future.”</p>\n<p>He reiterated the Fed’s pledge to keep short-term interest rates pinned near zero until the labor market has reached maximum employment and inflation has accelerated to 2% -- and is on track to moderately exceed that level for some time.</p>\n<p>The personal consumption expenditures price index rose 1.3% in December 2020 from a year earlier, well below the Fed’s 2% inflation target. After stripping out volatile food and energy costs, core inflation clocked in at 1.5%.</p>\n<p>“I really do not expect that we’ll be in a situation where inflation rises to troubling levels,” Powell said.</p>\n<p><b>Temporary Inflation</b></p>\n<p>He said inflation will pick up in coming months as current price levels are compared to depressed readings a year ago, when the economy was virtually shut down, but that effect will be temporary.</p>\n<p>Prices may also be pushed up later in the year by pent-up demand released as a growing number of Americans get vaccinated against the virus. 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And he called the recent run-up in bond yields that has unsettled the stock market “a statement of confidence” in a robust economic outlook.\nThe Fed is currently buying $120 billion of assets per month -- $80 billion of Treasury securities and $40 billion of mortgage-backed debt -- and has pledged to keep up that pace “until substantial further progress” has been made toward its goals of maximum employment and 2% inflation.\nThe chairman “gave absolutely no indication that the Fed is thinking about changing its very dovish policy stance,” Cornerstone Macro analysts Roberto Perli and Benson Durham wrote in a note to clients.\nPowell’s testimony occurred against the backdrop of growing optimism about the economy as vaccines against the coronavirus are more widely disseminated and expectations of further fiscal stimulus from President Joe Biden and Congress mount.\n\nBond yields have risen on the economy’s better prospects and in anticipation of faster inflation. Some traders have also brought forward their expectations for the Fed’s first interest-rate increase since it slashed rates effectively to zero last year.\nPowell said it was important to determine what was behind the higher bond yields, namely expectations of a return to a more normal economy.\n“In a way, it’s a statement on confidence on the part of markets that we will have a robust and ultimately complete recovery,” he said.\nMarket price action was volatile in the aftermath of Powell’s opening statement text release, with 10-year yields initially rising a couple of basis points to 1.3875% session highs, before the move quickly faded and yields dropped back lower by about the same amount.\nInterest-rate swap markets are pricing the first 25 basis point of Fed hikes around mid-2023, versus the early-2024 time frame priced in at the beginning of this month.\nTechnology company shares led a decline in U.S. stock prices on Tuesday on concern that valuations had gotten out of hand amid higher bond yields and bets on faster inflation. Even with recent weakness, though, the S&P 500 index is still up more than 70% from lows struck last March.\nPowell said he didn’t have an opinion on whether that constituted an equity market bubble, noting that there were opinions expressed on both sides of that proposition. “No one can really identify” a bubble, he said.\nPowell allowed that loose monetary policy has played a role in pushing up asset prices. But he said that other forces were also at play, including expectations of faster economic growth.\n“While we should not underestimate the challenges we currently face, developments point to an improved outlook for later this year,” Powell said. “In particular, ongoing progress in vaccinations should help speed the return to normal activities.”\nIn response to a question, the Fed chair said growth could come in this year at 6%. The economy contracted by 2.5% last year.\nThe economy started 2021 on a strong note, as retail sales and factory output accelerated. In the wake of the firmer data, Bloomberg Economics last week boosted its 2021 growth forecast to 4.6% from 3.5% and said that could rise toward 6%-7% if Biden’s $1.9 trillion aid package is enacted.\n\n What Bloomberg Economics Says...\n\n\n Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s prepared remarks before the Senate Banking Committee showed little if any deviation from the tone of recent public statements. But “no news” is news in and of itself because it shows the Fed to be unwavering in its policy stance, despite rising Treasury yields and an improving tone in much of the economic data.\n\n\n --Carl Riccadonna and Yelena Shulyatyeva, economists\n\nThe jobs market though has softened, with claims filed for unemployment benefits jumping to a four-week high in the most recent reporting period. Payrolls last month barely rose, by 49,000, after a 227,000 decline in December, and while unemployment dropped to 6.3%, that partly reflected more people leaving the workforce.\n“The high level of joblessness has been especially severe for lower-wage workers and for African Americans, Hispanics, and other minority groups,” Powell said. “The economic dislocation has upended many lives and created great uncertainty about the future.”\nHe reiterated the Fed’s pledge to keep short-term interest rates pinned near zero until the labor market has reached maximum employment and inflation has accelerated to 2% -- and is on track to moderately exceed that level for some time.\nThe personal consumption expenditures price index rose 1.3% in December 2020 from a year earlier, well below the Fed’s 2% inflation target. After stripping out volatile food and energy costs, core inflation clocked in at 1.5%.\n“I really do not expect that we’ll be in a situation where inflation rises to troubling levels,” Powell said.\nTemporary Inflation\nHe said inflation will pick up in coming months as current price levels are compared to depressed readings a year ago, when the economy was virtually shut down, but that effect will be temporary.\nPrices may also be pushed up later in the year by pent-up demand released as a growing number of Americans get vaccinated against the virus. But he said that the increase in inflation was unlikely to be large or long-lasting.\nSome economists, most prominently former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, have warned that Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus plan could lead to an overheating of the economy and much faster inflation -- a concern that administration officials have pushed back on as exaggerated.\nWhile Powell studiously refrained from commenting on the Biden package, he did say that there hasn’t been a strong connection between bigger budget deficits and inflation recently.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":363230082,"gmtCreate":1614140201346,"gmtModify":1634551016634,"author":{"id":"3555108806658376","authorId":"3555108806658376","name":"braddoo","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/2c723063e2cdbd6804ad104bb19d1190","vip":1,"crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"authorIdStr":"3555108806658376","idStr":"3555108806658376"},"htmlText":"Wait and see for more inflation","listText":"Wait and see for more inflation","text":"Wait and see for more inflation","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/363230082","repostId":1123329535,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1123329535","pubTimestamp":1614109924,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1123329535?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-02-24 03:52","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Powell Signals Fed to Keep Buying Bonds Even as Outlook Improves","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1123329535","media":"Bloomberg","summary":"Fed chief plays down concerns about inflation, rising yields\nPowell says U.S. economy could expand b","content":"<ul>\n <li>Fed chief plays down concerns about inflation, rising yields</li>\n <li>Powell says U.S. economy could expand by 6% this year</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell signaled that the central bank was nowhere close to pulling back on its support for the pandemic-damaged U.S. economy even as he voiced expectations for a return to more normal, improved activity later this year.</p>\n<p>“The economy is a long way from our employment and inflation goals, and it is likely to take some time for substantial further progress to be achieved,” he told the Senate Banking Committee Tuesday.</p>\n<p>He also played down concerns of an inflationary outbreak from another big fiscal stimulus package or from an unleashing of pent-up demand as a growing number of Americans are vaccinated against the virus. And he called the recent run-up in bond yields that has unsettled the stock market “a statement of confidence” in a robust economic outlook.</p>\n<p>The Fed is currently buying $120 billion of assets per month -- $80 billion of Treasury securities and $40 billion of mortgage-backed debt -- and has pledged to keep up that pace “until substantial further progress” has been made toward its goals of maximum employment and 2% inflation.</p>\n<p>The chairman “gave absolutely no indication that the Fed is thinking about changing its very dovish policy stance,” Cornerstone Macro analysts Roberto Perli and Benson Durham wrote in a note to clients.</p>\n<p>Powell’s testimony occurred against the backdrop of growing optimism about the economy as vaccines against the coronavirus are more widely disseminated and expectations of further fiscal stimulus from President Joe Biden and Congress mount.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0ebf0c22dfcb8ea4a998998b28e8c4cd\" tg-width=\"1200\" tg-height=\"675\"></p>\n<p>Bond yields have risen on the economy’s better prospects and in anticipation of faster inflation. Some traders have also brought forward their expectations for the Fed’s first interest-rate increase since it slashed rates effectively to zero last year.</p>\n<p>Powell said it was important to determine what was behind the higher bond yields, namely expectations of a return to a more normal economy.</p>\n<p>“In a way, it’s a statement on confidence on the part of markets that we will have a robust and ultimately complete recovery,” he said.</p>\n<p>Market price action was volatile in the aftermath of Powell’s opening statement text release, with 10-year yields initially rising a couple of basis points to 1.3875% session highs, before the move quickly faded and yields dropped back lower by about the same amount.</p>\n<p>Interest-rate swap markets are pricing the first 25 basis point of Fed hikes around mid-2023, versus the early-2024 time frame priced in at the beginning of this month.</p>\n<p>Technology company shares led a decline in U.S. stock prices on Tuesday on concern that valuations had gotten out of hand amid higher bond yields and bets on faster inflation. Even with recent weakness, though, the S&amp;P 500 index is still up more than 70% from lows struck last March.</p>\n<p>Powell said he didn’t have an opinion on whether that constituted an equity market bubble, noting that there were opinions expressed on both sides of that proposition. “No one can really identify” a bubble, he said.</p>\n<p>Powell allowed that loose monetary policy has played a role in pushing up asset prices. But he said that other forces were also at play, including expectations of faster economic growth.</p>\n<p>“While we should not underestimate the challenges we currently face, developments point to an improved outlook for later this year,” Powell said. “In particular, ongoing progress in vaccinations should help speed the return to normal activities.”</p>\n<p>In response to a question, the Fed chair said growth could come in this year at 6%. The economy contracted by 2.5% last year.</p>\n<p>The economy started 2021 on a strong&nbsp;note, as retail sales and factory output accelerated. In the wake of the firmer data, Bloomberg Economics last week&nbsp;boosted&nbsp;its 2021 growth forecast to 4.6% from 3.5% and said that could rise toward 6%-7% if Biden’s $1.9 trillion aid package is enacted.</p>\n<blockquote>\n What Bloomberg Economics Says...\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s prepared remarks before the Senate Banking Committee showed little if any deviation from the tone of recent public statements. But “no news” is news in and of itself because it shows the Fed to be unwavering in its policy stance, despite rising Treasury yields and an improving tone in much of the economic data.\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n --Carl Riccadonna and Yelena Shulyatyeva, economists\n</blockquote>\n<p>The jobs market though has softened, with claims filed for unemployment benefits jumping to a four-week&nbsp;high&nbsp;in the most recent reporting period. Payrolls last month barely rose, by 49,000, after a 227,000 decline in December, and while&nbsp;unemployment&nbsp;dropped to 6.3%, that partly reflected more people leaving the workforce.</p>\n<p>“The high level of joblessness has been especially severe for lower-wage workers and for African Americans, Hispanics, and other minority groups,” Powell said. “The economic dislocation has upended many lives and created great uncertainty about the future.”</p>\n<p>He reiterated the Fed’s pledge to keep short-term interest rates pinned near zero until the labor market has reached maximum employment and inflation has accelerated to 2% -- and is on track to moderately exceed that level for some time.</p>\n<p>The personal consumption expenditures price index rose 1.3% in December 2020 from a year earlier, well below the Fed’s 2% inflation target. After stripping out volatile food and energy costs, core inflation clocked in at 1.5%.</p>\n<p>“I really do not expect that we’ll be in a situation where inflation rises to troubling levels,” Powell said.</p>\n<p><b>Temporary Inflation</b></p>\n<p>He said inflation will pick up in coming months as current price levels are compared to depressed readings a year ago, when the economy was virtually shut down, but that effect will be temporary.</p>\n<p>Prices may also be pushed up later in the year by pent-up demand released as a growing number of Americans get vaccinated against the virus. But he said that the increase in inflation was unlikely to be large or long-lasting.</p>\n<p>Some economists, most prominently former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, have warned that Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus plan could lead to an overheating of the economy and much faster inflation -- a concern that administration officials have pushed back on as exaggerated.</p>\n<p>While Powell studiously refrained from commenting on the Biden package, he did say that there hasn’t been a strong connection between bigger budget deficits and inflation recently.</p>","source":"lsy1584095487587","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Powell Signals Fed to Keep Buying Bonds Even as Outlook Improves</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; 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And he called the recent run-up in bond yields that has unsettled the stock market “a statement of confidence” in a robust economic outlook.\nThe Fed is currently buying $120 billion of assets per month -- $80 billion of Treasury securities and $40 billion of mortgage-backed debt -- and has pledged to keep up that pace “until substantial further progress” has been made toward its goals of maximum employment and 2% inflation.\nThe chairman “gave absolutely no indication that the Fed is thinking about changing its very dovish policy stance,” Cornerstone Macro analysts Roberto Perli and Benson Durham wrote in a note to clients.\nPowell’s testimony occurred against the backdrop of growing optimism about the economy as vaccines against the coronavirus are more widely disseminated and expectations of further fiscal stimulus from President Joe Biden and Congress mount.\n\nBond yields have risen on the economy’s better prospects and in anticipation of faster inflation. Some traders have also brought forward their expectations for the Fed’s first interest-rate increase since it slashed rates effectively to zero last year.\nPowell said it was important to determine what was behind the higher bond yields, namely expectations of a return to a more normal economy.\n“In a way, it’s a statement on confidence on the part of markets that we will have a robust and ultimately complete recovery,” he said.\nMarket price action was volatile in the aftermath of Powell’s opening statement text release, with 10-year yields initially rising a couple of basis points to 1.3875% session highs, before the move quickly faded and yields dropped back lower by about the same amount.\nInterest-rate swap markets are pricing the first 25 basis point of Fed hikes around mid-2023, versus the early-2024 time frame priced in at the beginning of this month.\nTechnology company shares led a decline in U.S. stock prices on Tuesday on concern that valuations had gotten out of hand amid higher bond yields and bets on faster inflation. Even with recent weakness, though, the S&P 500 index is still up more than 70% from lows struck last March.\nPowell said he didn’t have an opinion on whether that constituted an equity market bubble, noting that there were opinions expressed on both sides of that proposition. “No one can really identify” a bubble, he said.\nPowell allowed that loose monetary policy has played a role in pushing up asset prices. But he said that other forces were also at play, including expectations of faster economic growth.\n“While we should not underestimate the challenges we currently face, developments point to an improved outlook for later this year,” Powell said. “In particular, ongoing progress in vaccinations should help speed the return to normal activities.”\nIn response to a question, the Fed chair said growth could come in this year at 6%. The economy contracted by 2.5% last year.\nThe economy started 2021 on a strong note, as retail sales and factory output accelerated. In the wake of the firmer data, Bloomberg Economics last week boosted its 2021 growth forecast to 4.6% from 3.5% and said that could rise toward 6%-7% if Biden’s $1.9 trillion aid package is enacted.\n\n What Bloomberg Economics Says...\n\n\n Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s prepared remarks before the Senate Banking Committee showed little if any deviation from the tone of recent public statements. But “no news” is news in and of itself because it shows the Fed to be unwavering in its policy stance, despite rising Treasury yields and an improving tone in much of the economic data.\n\n\n --Carl Riccadonna and Yelena Shulyatyeva, economists\n\nThe jobs market though has softened, with claims filed for unemployment benefits jumping to a four-week high in the most recent reporting period. Payrolls last month barely rose, by 49,000, after a 227,000 decline in December, and while unemployment dropped to 6.3%, that partly reflected more people leaving the workforce.\n“The high level of joblessness has been especially severe for lower-wage workers and for African Americans, Hispanics, and other minority groups,” Powell said. “The economic dislocation has upended many lives and created great uncertainty about the future.”\nHe reiterated the Fed’s pledge to keep short-term interest rates pinned near zero until the labor market has reached maximum employment and inflation has accelerated to 2% -- and is on track to moderately exceed that level for some time.\nThe personal consumption expenditures price index rose 1.3% in December 2020 from a year earlier, well below the Fed’s 2% inflation target. After stripping out volatile food and energy costs, core inflation clocked in at 1.5%.\n“I really do not expect that we’ll be in a situation where inflation rises to troubling levels,” Powell said.\nTemporary Inflation\nHe said inflation will pick up in coming months as current price levels are compared to depressed readings a year ago, when the economy was virtually shut down, but that effect will be temporary.\nPrices may also be pushed up later in the year by pent-up demand released as a growing number of Americans get vaccinated against the virus. But he said that the increase in inflation was unlikely to be large or long-lasting.\nSome economists, most prominently former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, have warned that Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus plan could lead to an overheating of the economy and much faster inflation -- a concern that administration officials have pushed back on as exaggerated.\nWhile Powell studiously refrained from commenting on the Biden package, he did say that there hasn’t been a strong connection between bigger budget deficits and inflation recently.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":363297730,"gmtCreate":1614140195220,"gmtModify":1634551016753,"author":{"id":"3554789379855880","authorId":"3554789379855880","name":"Zepth","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/71bccc929ae6e97e961605eccc1a23df","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"authorIdStr":"3554789379855880","idStr":"3554789379855880"},"htmlText":"Inflation concern +&nbsp; market will grow 6% = us market crash 20%&nbsp;[思考]&nbsp;","listText":"Inflation concern +&nbsp; market will grow 6% = us market crash 20%&nbsp;[思考]&nbsp;","text":"Inflation concern + market will grow 6% = us market crash 20% [思考]","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":4,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/363297730","repostId":1123329535,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1123329535","pubTimestamp":1614109924,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1123329535?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-02-24 03:52","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Powell Signals Fed to Keep Buying Bonds Even as Outlook Improves","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1123329535","media":"Bloomberg","summary":"Fed chief plays down concerns about inflation, rising yields\nPowell says U.S. economy could expand b","content":"<ul>\n <li>Fed chief plays down concerns about inflation, rising yields</li>\n <li>Powell says U.S. economy could expand by 6% this year</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell signaled that the central bank was nowhere close to pulling back on its support for the pandemic-damaged U.S. economy even as he voiced expectations for a return to more normal, improved activity later this year.</p>\n<p>“The economy is a long way from our employment and inflation goals, and it is likely to take some time for substantial further progress to be achieved,” he told the Senate Banking Committee Tuesday.</p>\n<p>He also played down concerns of an inflationary outbreak from another big fiscal stimulus package or from an unleashing of pent-up demand as a growing number of Americans are vaccinated against the virus. And he called the recent run-up in bond yields that has unsettled the stock market “a statement of confidence” in a robust economic outlook.</p>\n<p>The Fed is currently buying $120 billion of assets per month -- $80 billion of Treasury securities and $40 billion of mortgage-backed debt -- and has pledged to keep up that pace “until substantial further progress” has been made toward its goals of maximum employment and 2% inflation.</p>\n<p>The chairman “gave absolutely no indication that the Fed is thinking about changing its very dovish policy stance,” Cornerstone Macro analysts Roberto Perli and Benson Durham wrote in a note to clients.</p>\n<p>Powell’s testimony occurred against the backdrop of growing optimism about the economy as vaccines against the coronavirus are more widely disseminated and expectations of further fiscal stimulus from President Joe Biden and Congress mount.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0ebf0c22dfcb8ea4a998998b28e8c4cd\" tg-width=\"1200\" tg-height=\"675\"></p>\n<p>Bond yields have risen on the economy’s better prospects and in anticipation of faster inflation. Some traders have also brought forward their expectations for the Fed’s first interest-rate increase since it slashed rates effectively to zero last year.</p>\n<p>Powell said it was important to determine what was behind the higher bond yields, namely expectations of a return to a more normal economy.</p>\n<p>“In a way, it’s a statement on confidence on the part of markets that we will have a robust and ultimately complete recovery,” he said.</p>\n<p>Market price action was volatile in the aftermath of Powell’s opening statement text release, with 10-year yields initially rising a couple of basis points to 1.3875% session highs, before the move quickly faded and yields dropped back lower by about the same amount.</p>\n<p>Interest-rate swap markets are pricing the first 25 basis point of Fed hikes around mid-2023, versus the early-2024 time frame priced in at the beginning of this month.</p>\n<p>Technology company shares led a decline in U.S. stock prices on Tuesday on concern that valuations had gotten out of hand amid higher bond yields and bets on faster inflation. Even with recent weakness, though, the S&amp;P 500 index is still up more than 70% from lows struck last March.</p>\n<p>Powell said he didn’t have an opinion on whether that constituted an equity market bubble, noting that there were opinions expressed on both sides of that proposition. “No one can really identify” a bubble, he said.</p>\n<p>Powell allowed that loose monetary policy has played a role in pushing up asset prices. But he said that other forces were also at play, including expectations of faster economic growth.</p>\n<p>“While we should not underestimate the challenges we currently face, developments point to an improved outlook for later this year,” Powell said. “In particular, ongoing progress in vaccinations should help speed the return to normal activities.”</p>\n<p>In response to a question, the Fed chair said growth could come in this year at 6%. The economy contracted by 2.5% last year.</p>\n<p>The economy started 2021 on a strong&nbsp;note, as retail sales and factory output accelerated. In the wake of the firmer data, Bloomberg Economics last week&nbsp;boosted&nbsp;its 2021 growth forecast to 4.6% from 3.5% and said that could rise toward 6%-7% if Biden’s $1.9 trillion aid package is enacted.</p>\n<blockquote>\n What Bloomberg Economics Says...\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s prepared remarks before the Senate Banking Committee showed little if any deviation from the tone of recent public statements. But “no news” is news in and of itself because it shows the Fed to be unwavering in its policy stance, despite rising Treasury yields and an improving tone in much of the economic data.\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n --Carl Riccadonna and Yelena Shulyatyeva, economists\n</blockquote>\n<p>The jobs market though has softened, with claims filed for unemployment benefits jumping to a four-week&nbsp;high&nbsp;in the most recent reporting period. Payrolls last month barely rose, by 49,000, after a 227,000 decline in December, and while&nbsp;unemployment&nbsp;dropped to 6.3%, that partly reflected more people leaving the workforce.</p>\n<p>“The high level of joblessness has been especially severe for lower-wage workers and for African Americans, Hispanics, and other minority groups,” Powell said. “The economic dislocation has upended many lives and created great uncertainty about the future.”</p>\n<p>He reiterated the Fed’s pledge to keep short-term interest rates pinned near zero until the labor market has reached maximum employment and inflation has accelerated to 2% -- and is on track to moderately exceed that level for some time.</p>\n<p>The personal consumption expenditures price index rose 1.3% in December 2020 from a year earlier, well below the Fed’s 2% inflation target. After stripping out volatile food and energy costs, core inflation clocked in at 1.5%.</p>\n<p>“I really do not expect that we’ll be in a situation where inflation rises to troubling levels,” Powell said.</p>\n<p><b>Temporary Inflation</b></p>\n<p>He said inflation will pick up in coming months as current price levels are compared to depressed readings a year ago, when the economy was virtually shut down, but that effect will be temporary.</p>\n<p>Prices may also be pushed up later in the year by pent-up demand released as a growing number of Americans get vaccinated against the virus. But he said that the increase in inflation was unlikely to be large or long-lasting.</p>\n<p>Some economists, most prominently former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, have warned that Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus plan could lead to an overheating of the economy and much faster inflation -- a concern that administration officials have pushed back on as exaggerated.</p>\n<p>While Powell studiously refrained from commenting on the Biden package, he did say that there hasn’t been a strong connection between bigger budget deficits and inflation recently.</p>","source":"lsy1584095487587","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Powell Signals Fed to Keep Buying Bonds Even as Outlook Improves</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; 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And he called the recent run-up in bond yields that has unsettled the stock market “a statement of confidence” in a robust economic outlook.\nThe Fed is currently buying $120 billion of assets per month -- $80 billion of Treasury securities and $40 billion of mortgage-backed debt -- and has pledged to keep up that pace “until substantial further progress” has been made toward its goals of maximum employment and 2% inflation.\nThe chairman “gave absolutely no indication that the Fed is thinking about changing its very dovish policy stance,” Cornerstone Macro analysts Roberto Perli and Benson Durham wrote in a note to clients.\nPowell’s testimony occurred against the backdrop of growing optimism about the economy as vaccines against the coronavirus are more widely disseminated and expectations of further fiscal stimulus from President Joe Biden and Congress mount.\n\nBond yields have risen on the economy’s better prospects and in anticipation of faster inflation. Some traders have also brought forward their expectations for the Fed’s first interest-rate increase since it slashed rates effectively to zero last year.\nPowell said it was important to determine what was behind the higher bond yields, namely expectations of a return to a more normal economy.\n“In a way, it’s a statement on confidence on the part of markets that we will have a robust and ultimately complete recovery,” he said.\nMarket price action was volatile in the aftermath of Powell’s opening statement text release, with 10-year yields initially rising a couple of basis points to 1.3875% session highs, before the move quickly faded and yields dropped back lower by about the same amount.\nInterest-rate swap markets are pricing the first 25 basis point of Fed hikes around mid-2023, versus the early-2024 time frame priced in at the beginning of this month.\nTechnology company shares led a decline in U.S. stock prices on Tuesday on concern that valuations had gotten out of hand amid higher bond yields and bets on faster inflation. Even with recent weakness, though, the S&P 500 index is still up more than 70% from lows struck last March.\nPowell said he didn’t have an opinion on whether that constituted an equity market bubble, noting that there were opinions expressed on both sides of that proposition. “No one can really identify” a bubble, he said.\nPowell allowed that loose monetary policy has played a role in pushing up asset prices. But he said that other forces were also at play, including expectations of faster economic growth.\n“While we should not underestimate the challenges we currently face, developments point to an improved outlook for later this year,” Powell said. “In particular, ongoing progress in vaccinations should help speed the return to normal activities.”\nIn response to a question, the Fed chair said growth could come in this year at 6%. The economy contracted by 2.5% last year.\nThe economy started 2021 on a strong note, as retail sales and factory output accelerated. In the wake of the firmer data, Bloomberg Economics last week boosted its 2021 growth forecast to 4.6% from 3.5% and said that could rise toward 6%-7% if Biden’s $1.9 trillion aid package is enacted.\n\n What Bloomberg Economics Says...\n\n\n Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s prepared remarks before the Senate Banking Committee showed little if any deviation from the tone of recent public statements. But “no news” is news in and of itself because it shows the Fed to be unwavering in its policy stance, despite rising Treasury yields and an improving tone in much of the economic data.\n\n\n --Carl Riccadonna and Yelena Shulyatyeva, economists\n\nThe jobs market though has softened, with claims filed for unemployment benefits jumping to a four-week high in the most recent reporting period. Payrolls last month barely rose, by 49,000, after a 227,000 decline in December, and while unemployment dropped to 6.3%, that partly reflected more people leaving the workforce.\n“The high level of joblessness has been especially severe for lower-wage workers and for African Americans, Hispanics, and other minority groups,” Powell said. “The economic dislocation has upended many lives and created great uncertainty about the future.”\nHe reiterated the Fed’s pledge to keep short-term interest rates pinned near zero until the labor market has reached maximum employment and inflation has accelerated to 2% -- and is on track to moderately exceed that level for some time.\nThe personal consumption expenditures price index rose 1.3% in December 2020 from a year earlier, well below the Fed’s 2% inflation target. After stripping out volatile food and energy costs, core inflation clocked in at 1.5%.\n“I really do not expect that we’ll be in a situation where inflation rises to troubling levels,” Powell said.\nTemporary Inflation\nHe said inflation will pick up in coming months as current price levels are compared to depressed readings a year ago, when the economy was virtually shut down, but that effect will be temporary.\nPrices may also be pushed up later in the year by pent-up demand released as a growing number of Americans get vaccinated against the virus. But he said that the increase in inflation was unlikely to be large or long-lasting.\nSome economists, most prominently former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, have warned that Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus plan could lead to an overheating of the economy and much faster inflation -- a concern that administration officials have pushed back on as exaggerated.\nWhile Powell studiously refrained from commenting on the Biden package, he did say that there hasn’t been a strong connection between bigger budget deficits and inflation recently.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"CN"}],"hasMoreComments":true,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":78,"commentSize":11,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":0,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false}}