Fed’s Jefferson says happy to keep Fed Funds on hold at current rate

Federal Reserve Vice Chair Philip Jefferson:

  • need to look at the totality of the net effect of the Trump administration’s influence on policy goals
  • happy to keep policy at the current level of restrictiveness until there is a better sense of the totality of impacts
  • even if the rate was 100bp lower it’d still be restrictive
  • this allows us to be patient and wait to see the net effect of policy changes

This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at www.forexlive.com. Source