Only one, Neel Kashkari, the president of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve, voted against it. Kashkari has argued that economic conditions are not strong enough to justify raising the benchmark rate.
Yellen spoke to reporters after the central bank raised interest rates on Wednesday, and indicated she is not incredibly concerned about inflation weakness. USA equity futures fell after a report that investigators are probing whether President Donald Trump attempted to obstruct justice.
The Federal Reserve raised interest rates on Wednesday for the second time in three months, citing continued United States economic growth and job market strength, and announced it would begin cutting its holdings of bonds and other securities this year.
All of this negative data is causing growing speculation that the Fed. may have got it wrong and the economic slowdown is not "transitory" as they have claimed on numerous occasions recently.
She also laid down plans to reduce the central bank's balance sheet in the second half of the year.
"The committee now expects to begin implementing a balance sheet normalization program this year, provided that the economy evolves broadly as anticipated".
"The meeting was definitely tilted towards the hawkish side". HEADING LOWER Remember too, that one key difference since last the Fed hiked in March is that there is now much less confidence in the Trump administration's ability to carry out either meaningful stimulative spending or midwifing a tax cut package which would do more than pump up equity prices.
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MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan dropped 0.7 per cent, led by resource shares. "Expect US treasury (UST) yields and the dollar to fall on the news, although US equities are likely to be buoyed by the more dovish outlook". The blue-chip CSI300 index fell 0.2 per cent while the Shanghai Composite Index added 0.1 per cent. The 10-year - 2-year USA yield spread also dipped lower, which suggests that the market believes the Fed will have to delay future rate hikes because of bleak economic outlook.
Regarding inflation, the Fed sees it stabilizing but remaining below 2 percent (y/y) in the next 12 months. "That is the main reason why the dollar is remaining supported for now", said Manuel Oliveri, currency strategist at Credit Agricole in London.
The central bank last month added a counter-cycle adjuster to the yuan's daily fixing formula, a move that boosted the currency's exchange rate by about 1 per cent against the U.S. dollar.
The Dow Jones industrial average gained 0.2% on Wednesday, while the S&P 500 lost 0.1% and the Nasdaq shed 0.4%.
The euro was also unchanged at $1.1217, below a seven-month peak of $1.1296 scaled overnight.
The US treasury curve (the difference between two and ten-year treasuries) has flattened five basis points (bp) and at 79bp is eyeing the levels we saw in July 2016. Markets understood that the Fed's decision to hike the fed funds rate by 25 basis points (bps) to 1.25% and the reverse repo rate by 25 bps to 1.0% would not be based exclusively on the flow of economic data since the March and May Fed meetings. Brent crude, used to price worldwide oils, shed 27 cents to $48.45 a barrel in London.
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