Jeanette Garretty on Bloomberg Daybreak Australia
January 7, 2024 – Chief Economist and Managing Director, Jeanette Garretty appeared on Bloomberg Daybreak Australia to discuss her key takeaways from the US jobs data and outlook for the US economy. “The jobs report was a good jobs report,” says Garretty. “The wage growth was a little bit hotter than expected, but the Fed has said all along […]
Jeanette Garretty on Yahoo! Finance
December 27, 2024 – Chief Economist and Managing Director, Jeanette Garretty appeared on Yahoo! Finance to discuss holiday retail sales. “The Trends seen in recent consumer spending patterns and the data that may serve as a ‘check engine light’ in 2024,” says Garretty. “There is very little… economic evidence that consumer sentiment directly feeds into those near-term spending patterns […]
Jeanette Garretty on Bloomberg Radio
December 21, 2024 – Chief Economist and Managing Director, Jeanette Garretty appeared on Bloomberg Daybreak Asia to discuss the US economic outlook. “I think it’s a point that we have long wanted to be at a point of actually greater certainty about what the outlook is for basic economic conditions,” says Garretty. “But there is a third inflection point going […]
FOMC Commentary – December 13, 2023
By Chief Economist, Jeanette Garretty The FOMC statement released today confirmed the intention to keep interest rates unchanged—and, somewhat surprisingly—provided subtle, important support for the current discussion in financial markets about interest rate cuts in 2024. “Cuts” in the plural; the Summary of Economic Projections (“SEP”) released in conjunction with the FOMC statement indicated at […]
Jeanette Garretty on Bloomberg Radio
November 27, 2023 – Chief Economist and Managing Director, Jeanette Garretty appeared on Bloomberg Daybreak Asia to discuss U.S. eco data/preview Fed. “I just want to highlight, I think it’s going to be an interesting meeting and I think there’s going to be a lot of dissent behind closed doors. Not when they make the […]
FOMC Commentary – November 1, 2023
By Chief Economist, Jeanette Garretty The FOMC interest rate announcement today came in almost completely as expected, holding the Fed Funds policy target at 5.25%-5.5% and no change in the Quantitative Tightening (QT) program which has served to reduce the securities on the Federal Reserve balance sheet by more than $1 trillion. Very little in […]
Jeanette Garretty on Bloomberg Daybreak: Australia
November 1, 2023 – Chief Economist and Managing Director, Jeanette Garretty appeared on BloombergDaybreak: Australia to discuss her outlook for the US economy as investors await the November Fed Rate decision. “I think that what they’re going to do is they’re going to come out and say, ‘we continue to watch the data and they will allude in […]
Understanding the yield curve: why economists use it to predict recessions
October 24, 2023 – Chief Investment Officer, Stuart Katz and Chief Economist & Managing Director, Jeanette Garretty were featured in Fortune to discuss ‘Understanding the yield curve: why economists use it to predict recessions.’ “Every recession that we’ve seen has been preceded by an inverted yield curve,” says Garretty. “That’s not to say that every inverted yield curve has pointed to […]
FOMC Commentary – September 20, 2023
By Chief Economist, Jeanette Garretty FOMC Statement The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) decision to keep the Fed Funds rate target at the 5.25%-5.5% was not unexpected, although in the last few days there had been speculation that recent increases in oil and gasoline prices might prompt the Fed to take pre-emptive action against a potential […]
Advisors roll with the Fed’s well-telegraphed monetary policy move
July 26, 2023 – Chief Economist and Managing Director, Jeanette Garretty was featured in InvestmentNews discussing ‘Advisors roll with the Fed’s well-telegraphed monetary policy move.’ “The June pause throws a wrench into the works of forecasting the Fed’s next moves,” said Garretty. “Now that they’ve set the precedent of skipping a meeting and going back […]
2023 Mid Year Outlook Webinar
July 25, 2023 – Chief Economist, Jeanette Garretty, hosts Chief Investment Officer, Stuart Katz, and Head of Wealth Planning, Mallon FitzPatrick, to discuss the 1st half of 2023 and their expectations for the remainder of the year. Disclosures Investment advisory services offered through Robertson Stephens Wealth Management, LLC (“Robertson Stephens”), an SEC-registered investment advisor. Registration […]
Jeanette Garretty on Bloomberg Daybreak: Australia
July 12, 2023 – Chief Economist and Managing Director, Jeanette Garretty appeared on Bloomberg Daybreak: Australia discussing the outlook for the US economy as the inflation rate slid to a more than two-year low. “I think most of those trends, one of the things that makes this a good report is that when you look […]