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Fed’s Evans: Market volatility can create restrictiveness

2022.09.28 20:01



© Reuters. Chicago Federal Reserve Bank President Charles Evans looks on during the Global Interdependence Center Members Delegation Event in Mexico City, Mexico, February 27, 2020. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido/Files

By Dhara Ranasinghe and Jorgelina do Rosario

LONDON (Reuters) – Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans said on Wednesday that volatility in markets can create additional restrictiveness in financial conditions.    

Global markets have been whipsawed this week by turmoil in UK markets, already on edge over aggressive rate hikes from the U.S. Federal Reserve and other major central banks.    

“The U.S. economy and inflation are going to be largely dictated by the stance of monetary policy and everything else that is going on supply shocks, the labour issues we’re dealing with,” Evans said in London. “It is a case that financial market volatility can add to additional financial restrictiveness. So anything around the world in terms of policy or developments like Russia’s invasion of Ukraine can add to additional restrictiveness.”

Still, speaking with reporters after an event at the London School of Economics, Evans gave no indication that any of that would blow the Fed off its course.

    “We just really need to get inflation in check,” Evans said. It would be good, he said, to get the Fed policy rate – now at 3%-3.25% – to a range of 4.5%-4.75% by the end of the year or March, and then keep it there for a while.

Real rates currently are “not nearly restrictive enough,” given high inflation, but by March should be around 2%, he said, enough to put downward pressure on prices.

Relief on inflation could also come from improvements in supply, he said, and giving him some comfort is the fact that inflation expectations are “relatively consistent” with the Fed’s 2% inflation goal.



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