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Speaker 1: minutes of its April meeting market. It takes it as

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Speaker 1: a sign given the wording, participants judging that of incoming

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Speaker 1: market conditions continuing to get better and inflation even just

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Speaker 1: making progress to the Fed's target could be time to

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Speaker 1: raise rates. Well, let's find out how. A man who's

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Speaker 1: been writing a lot about the FED this week. In fact,

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Speaker 1: you talked about angry birds at the FED recently. Stephen Stanley,

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Speaker 1: chief economists at Amherst Pierpont Security, joins us. Now, So,

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Speaker 1: first of all, Stephen, what is your immediate response to

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Speaker 1: the minutes? Well, Hi, Kathleen, I think the most important

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Speaker 1: thing for me is that it it um corroborates what

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Speaker 1: April meeting, what the FED wanted is they wanted the

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Speaker 1: markets to move closer to a fifty fifty assessment of

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Speaker 1: the odds of a June move, so that a June

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Speaker 1: move would be open to them. And at the time,

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Speaker 1: the odds of a June move were probably as low

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Speaker 1: as and I think the Fed was probably quite surprised

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Speaker 1: down almost all the way to zero by the end

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Speaker 1: of last week, and that's why you've seen maybe some

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Speaker 1: of the more strident rhetoric over the last week or two.

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Speaker 1: A three legged stool. Stephen Stanley, Economic growth, labor market condition,

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Speaker 1: and inflation tell us your thoughts on each three well,

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Speaker 1: I think the minutes reiterate that the Fed did not

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Speaker 1: put a lot of stock in the low Q one

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Speaker 1: GDP number. Um we know from the statement that they

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Speaker 1: were weighing the strength and labor market conditions as more

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Speaker 1: that's and that's certainly fleshed out quite well in the minutes.

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Speaker 1: I think on inflation. There's still a bit of a

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Speaker 1: division of opinion. They're they're a number of folks on

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Speaker 1: the committee who are starting to become concerned that the

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Speaker 1: tightness of labor markets and the fact that we've already

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Speaker 1: begun to see a little bit of of gradual uptick

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Speaker 1: to get moving in there. Others who were still in

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Speaker 1: addition to Esther, George of the Kansas City Fed, well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think she's certainly one that wants to move.

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Speaker 1: In the minutes said that there were a few people

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Speaker 1: if they had a chance to vote on it. So Steven,

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Speaker 1: just to follow up on the expectations. Now, probability of

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Speaker 1: but still it was down around four percent earlier this week.

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Speaker 1: Your piece just from a couple of days ago, angry

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Speaker 1: Hawks are gearing up to challenge the ruler of the ruse. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Cheer Yelling. I think you're making a very interesting, important argument.

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Speaker 1: Maybe a lot of the comments that have been made

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Speaker 1: a direction and start laying down the gauntlet before the

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Speaker 1: next meeting. Yeah. I think that's right, And I think

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Speaker 1: for me, the most important thing is the fact that

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Speaker 1: Cherry Ellen did schedule a speech for June six, because

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Speaker 1: Because there have been a number of times over the

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Speaker 1: of the other problem that does in the committee kind

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Speaker 1: of you know, pushed back hard. Uh. Most recently at

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Speaker 1: the end of March, when Yelling gave her last public speech.

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Speaker 1: There had been some pretty intense hawk Is rhetoric coming

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Speaker 1: and she kind of slapped that down. I think, so, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, this June six speech I think is going

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Speaker 1: which comes a little over week after that. Stephen Stanley,

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Speaker 1: are we going to see more bonds sell offs right now?

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Speaker 1: Looking at the thirty year were down more than more

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Speaker 1: the tenure were down more than seven tents. The two

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Speaker 1: that there's having a huge move, a big sell off

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Speaker 1: at the short end as well. Yeah. Well, I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, the markets really weren't pricing in very much

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Speaker 1: hike for all of two thousand and sixteen, and less

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Speaker 1: than a full hike for all two thousand and seventeen

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Speaker 1: up until a couple of days ago. So if if

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Speaker 1: the markets are convinced the Fed's going to get serious

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Speaker 1: about raising rights here, then yeah, obviously um interest rates

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Speaker 1: are going to have to adjust up and down the curve.

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Speaker 1: So what are you what odds would you put on

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Speaker 1: them June inter strate increase the meeting again just to

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Speaker 1: they wait till then? Stephen? Well, I think they could

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Speaker 1: wait if if Brexit proves to be a disruptive force

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Speaker 1: in the lead up to the June meeting. But but

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Speaker 1: I actually still think that June is the most likely scenario.

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Speaker 1: I put the odds of a of a June move

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Speaker 1: at something like two out of three. UM. I think

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Speaker 1: that you know, where there's smoke, there's fire. And there's

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Speaker 1: been a lot of talk amongst people to fed and

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Speaker 1: the Doves. UM. And the fact that Cherry Yellen scheduled

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Speaker 1: the speech for June six, to me is that maybe

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Speaker 1: I'm reading a little too much here, but I think

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Speaker 1: that that's a pretty strong influence that she wants to

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Speaker 1: uh to say something. And and obviously she wouldn't really

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Speaker 1: have had to schedule that speech if all she wanted

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Speaker 1: to say was that we're not ready to move, because

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Speaker 1: it wasn't priced in at all a couple of days ago.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much for spending time with us. Stephen

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Speaker 1: Stanley is the chief economist for Amherst pure Pont Securities.

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Speaker 1: They're based in Stanford, Connecticut, giving his thoughts about the

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Speaker 1: Federal Open Market Committee policy meeting in April. The minutes

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Speaker 1: just released most Federal Reserve policymakers said an interest rate

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Speaker 1: increase would be appropriate in June and the economy continued

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Speaker 1: to improve. That they're divided over whether those conditions will

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Speaker 1: be net June interest rate increase. That odd odds of

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Speaker 1: that move seems to be somewhat higher. After LESA mint

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Speaker 1: Is today, our next guest is going to explain to

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Speaker 1: us why maybe the Fed should not be on the

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