Home/Central Bank Watch/Commodities/Forex News Round Up/USD

Fed Williams Still Sees 2 or 3 Rate Hikes This Year

Share Print 0

Two or three Federal Reserve interest rate increases this year would be “reasonable,” but the central bank will continue to watch economic data, San Francisco Fed President John Williams said Thursday.

“We should stay on our basic strategy of gradually reducing accommodation,” he told CNBC from the sidelines of a conference on monetary policy at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.

Williams does not vote on the Fed’s policymaking committee this year. Last month, the Federal Open Market Committee voted to keep its target range for the federal funds rate at 0.25 to 0.5 percent as it monitored global economic developments and progress toward its 2 percent inflation target.

via CNBC

This article is for general information purposes only. It is not investment advice or a solution to buy or sell securities. Opinions are the authors; not necessarily that of OANDA Corporation or any of its affiliates, subsidiaries, officers or directors. Leveraged trading is high risk and not suitable for all. You could lose all of your deposited funds.

Alfonso Esparza

Alfonso Esparza

Senior Currency Analyst at Market Pulse
Alfonso Esparza specializes in macro forex strategies for North American and major currency pairs. Upon joining OANDA in 2007, Alfonso Esparza established the MarketPulseFX blog and he has since written extensively about central banks and global economic and political trends. Alfonso has also worked as a professional currency trader focused on North America and emerging markets. He has been published by The MarketWatch, Reuters, the Wall Street Journal and The Globe and Mail, and he also appears regularly as a guest commentator on networks including Bloomberg and BNN. He holds a finance degree from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM) and an MBA with a specialization on financial engineering and marketing from the University of Toronto.
Alfonso Esparza

@alfonso_forex

Back to Top