{"id":662,"date":"2015-12-04T17:12:16","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T15:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/?p=662"},"modified":"2015-12-04T17:12:16","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T15:12:16","slug":"fed-whisperer-hilsenrath-confirms-all-clear-for-december-rate-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/archives\/662","title":{"rendered":"Fed Whisperer Hilsenrath Confirms &#8216;All-Clear&#8217; For December Rate-Hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-animation=\"no-animation\" data-icons-animation=\"no-animation\" data-overlay=\"\" data-change-size=\"\" data-button-size=\"0.7\" style=\"font-size:0.7em!important;display:none;\" class=\"supsystic-social-sharing supsystic-social-sharing-package-flat supsystic-social-sharing-content supsystic-social-sharing-content-align-left\" data-text=\"\"><a data-networks=\"[]\" class=\"social-sharing-button sharer-flat sharer-flat-1 counter-arrowed facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbestinsurance.gr%2Fa1%2Farchives%2F662\" data-main-href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u={url}\" data-nid=\"1\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"662\" data-url=\"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-mailto=\"\"><i class=\"fa-ssbs fa-ssbs-fw fa-ssbs-facebook\"><\/i><div class=\"counter-wrap arrowed\"><span class=\"counter\">0<\/span><\/div><\/a><a data-networks=\"[]\" class=\"social-sharing-button sharer-flat sharer-flat-1 counter-arrowed twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbestinsurance.gr%2Fa1%2Farchives%2F662&text=Fed+Whisperer+Hilsenrath+Confirms+%26%238216%3BAll-Clear%26%238217%3B+For+December+Rate-Hike\" data-main-href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url={url}&text={title}\" data-nid=\"2\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"662\" data-url=\"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-mailto=\"\"><i class=\"fa-ssbs fa-ssbs-fw fa-ssbs-twitter\"><\/i><div class=\"counter-wrap arrowed\"><span class=\"counter\">0<\/span><\/div><\/a><\/div><p>Fed Whisperer Hilsenrath Confirms &#8216;All-Clear&#8217; For December Rate-HikeAs if any confirmation was needed, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/hilsenrath-analysis-jobs-report-clears-the-way-for-fed-rate-increase-1449237755\">The Wall Street Journal&#8217;s Fed whisperer Jon Hilsenrath<\/a>&#8216;reports&#8217;:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"quote_end\"><\/div>\n<p>Friday\u2019s <strong>employment report clears the way for the Federal Reserve to raise short-term interest rates by a quarter-percentage point at its Dec. 15-16 policy meeting, <\/strong>ending seven years of near-zero interest rates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noting that anything over 200k would have done it..<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"quote_end\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen said in testimony to Congress on Thursday\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/yellen-reiterates-confidence-in-u-s-economy-in-congressional-testimony-1449154800\" target=\"_self\">the economy needs to add fewer than 200,000 jobs<\/a>a month to keep the unemployment rate moving down and to draw discouraged workers back into the labor force<\/strong>. Payrolls increases averaged 218,000 on a monthly basis in the September-through-November stretch, more than enough to meet the Fed\u2019s objectives. On this front, too, the labor market is on track as officials want and expect.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But,it&#8217;s not all unicorns and ponies&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"quote_end\"><\/div>\n<p>One slight stain in the report was a<strong> retreat in hourly average earnings from a 2.5% year-over-year increase in October to a 2.3% increase in November<\/strong>. Still, officials see signs that slack has diminished to the point in the labor market that wages will start rising more briskly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"quote_end\"><\/div>\n<p>With the first move widely expected in financial markets, Fed officials are likely to go into the meeting debating how they can<strong> emphasize to the public that the central bank will proceed cautiously and gradually with subsequent rate increases in 2016.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>In other words, The Fed is positioning this rate-hike as the most-dovish tightening of all-time&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Source:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-12-04\/fed-whisperer-hilsenrath-confirms-all-clear-december-rate-hike\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-animation=\"no-animation\" data-icons-animation=\"no-animation\" data-overlay=\"\" data-change-size=\"\" data-button-size=\"0.7\" style=\"font-size:0.7em!important;display:none;\" class=\"supsystic-social-sharing supsystic-social-sharing-package-flat supsystic-social-sharing-content supsystic-social-sharing-content-align-left\" data-text=\"\"><a data-networks=\"[]\" class=\"social-sharing-button sharer-flat sharer-flat-1 counter-arrowed facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbestinsurance.gr%2Fa1%2Farchives%2F662\" data-main-href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u={url}\" data-nid=\"1\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"662\" data-url=\"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-mailto=\"\"><i class=\"fa-ssbs fa-ssbs-fw fa-ssbs-facebook\"><\/i><div class=\"counter-wrap arrowed\"><span class=\"counter\">0<\/span><\/div><\/a><a data-networks=\"[]\" class=\"social-sharing-button sharer-flat sharer-flat-1 counter-arrowed twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbestinsurance.gr%2Fa1%2Farchives%2F662&text=Fed+Whisperer+Hilsenrath+Confirms+%26%238216%3BAll-Clear%26%238217%3B+For+December+Rate-Hike\" data-main-href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url={url}&text={title}\" data-nid=\"2\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"662\" data-url=\"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-mailto=\"\"><i class=\"fa-ssbs fa-ssbs-fw fa-ssbs-twitter\"><\/i><div class=\"counter-wrap arrowed\"><span class=\"counter\">0<\/span><\/div><\/a><\/div><p>Fed Whisperer Hilsenrath Confirms &#8216;All-Clear&#8217; For December Rate-HikeAs if any confirmation was needed, The Wall Street Journal&#8217;s Fed whisperer Jon Hilsenrath&#8216;reports&#8217;: Friday\u2019s employment report clears the way for the Federal Reserve to raise short-term interest rates by a quarter-percentage point at its Dec. 15-16 policy meeting, ending seven years of near-zero interest rates. Noting that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":664,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions\/664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}