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Forward guidance. My questions are first, what are you hoping to learn, how might that change your response and third, how close is the committee to reaching a decision on a more concrete Forward Guidance and whether yield caps might reinforce that guidance . First i would say we think Monetary Policy today is wellpositioned to support the economy in this challenging time. If we didnt think that of course we would change her policy now. As you know we lowered her policy rate very quickly, quickly than others and we said we will keep it there until the economy has weathered the effects of the virus and on track to achieve our goals. You can see in the dog plot as i think you pointed out the overwhelmingly the participants expect as a baseline expectation no rate increase at least through 2022 and if you look at surveys and forecasters are market produce reports, Financial Market prices et cetera, those reflect rates at the effective lower bound. The first thing is Monetary Policy is in
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Jerome powell announced that Interest Rates will remain near zero for the foreseeable future in order to support Economic Growth following the coronavirus pandemic. This is conference runs one hour. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us. Hour. Our country continues to face a difficult and challenging time as a pandemic is causing tremendous hardship in the United States and around the world. People have lost loved ones and many millions have lost their jobs and there is great uncertainty about the future. At the Federal Reserve, we are strongly committed to using our tools to do whatever we can and for as long as it takes to provide some relief instability to ensure the recovery will be a strong as possible and to limit lasting damage to the economy. T lasting damage to the economy. The most important response to the crisis has come from a healthcare workers and on behalf of the Federal Reserve look me express our dedicated individuals who put themselves at risk day after
Were going to go back to steve as soon as we sort out the audio. The main information, 100 was the vote in favor of this decision as steve was just beginning to say, theysh no plans to raise Interest Rates through 2022, and said theyre committed to providing more support following shutdowns to contain the coronavirus. The dow is still down about 150 points we still have the tenyear treasury yield kind of drifting toward the lows of the session before the decision hit. Steve, let me bring you back in here im sorry. Well go back to steve in a moment were running through the tenyear troishry yield. Now just a mare john, is there more you would like to hear sorting through the statement . It looks like they have made a statement about continuing bond purchases at current levels i think thats a pretty big deal they had been tapering bond purchases, and i think what theyre signaling today is theyre not going to continue to taper that i think importantly theyre looking for bond purchases to h