Jeanette Garretty on Bloomberg Daybreak Asia
March 19, 2024 – Chief Economist and Managing Director, Jeanette Garretty appeared on Bloomberg Daybreak Asia to discuss her market perspective and how The Fed in the US will act later this week. Jeanette touched upon commercial real estate, CPI and jobs numbers in her discussion. Listen here.
FOMC Commentary – January 31, 2024
By Chief Economist, Jeanette Garretty The FOMC statement released today is, in its language, quite benign. Notably, any language indicating a bias towards hiking interest rates (should inflation pressures return and/or inflation fail to continue to decelerate) has been removed from the statement. Overall, the message of the statement is that the Fed does not […]
Q4 2023 Economic Commentary
By Jeanette Garretty, Chief Economist The fourth and final quarter of 2023 saw a resolution of a number of important questions: Would inflation decelerate as hoped? Would the US economy falter? Would the Federal Reserve ever stop raising interest rates? These three questions dominated investor sentiment for much of 2023 and, in keeping with economics being […]
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 […]
Jeanette Garretty on Bloomberg Daybreak: Asia
September 28, 2023 – Chief Economist and Managing Director, Jeanette Garretty appeared on Bloomberg Daybreak: Asia to discuss the prospect of a federal government shutdown and the economic implications. “I’m quite concerned about what the impact might be on interest rates, especially if there’s a change in credit ratings or of a change in credit ratings,” says Garretty. “Right now, the […]