The jobs numbers are going to be meaningless for the next few months. You'll have Katrina as a big asterisk,.. So the Fed will be flying blind a little bit.
Brian Stine
Historically a flat or inverted yield curve is bad news for the market but I don't think that is the case this time. Buying of Treasuries won't go away when the Fed stops raising rates. The long-end going down just reflects demand for long-term bonds.
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The Fed is still looking at inflation. Katrina is certainly going to have some negative impact on the economy but longer-term Katrina will be a positive as we rebuild the Gulf area.
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The Fed is in a difficult position given the hurricane. The Fed is kind of flying blind.
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I think the Fed will change the wording and get rid of measured. Greenspan wants to get to neutral on his watch and the Fed will want to change the wording to suggest that it's almost done.
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They can leave out the sentence about accommodation and say that future actions will be based on incoming data.
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There are some indicators suggesting a bit of a slowdown. That could cause the Fed to pause,.. The key is about how the Fed talks about the economy, if they talk about weakness worldwide and rising oil prices.
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One of the main drivers right now for the market is this worry about interest rates.
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