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Fed’s Bostic: Still at three total interest rate increases for the year

Atlanta Federal Reserve bank president Raphael Bostic is delivering additional comments, via Reuters, with key quotes found below.

  • Still at three total interest rate increases for the year.
  • Putting a lot of work into researching metrics to show when economy approaching neutral rate.
  • Cannot be cavalier about possible yield curve inversion given market attention to it.
  • Not a stretch that the economy needs no monetary stimulus at this point.
  • Fed press conferences every FOMC meeting “a good thing” to ensure markets view every meeting with equal weight.
  • Fed’s expected overshoot of 2.1 percent inflation in coming years is not materially different from the target of 2 pct.

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