{"id":293018,"date":"2019-08-01T05:17:57","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T19:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gomarketingteam.com\/articles\/dissecting-the-fomc-statement\/"},"modified":"2021-02-19T12:21:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T01:21:09","slug":"dissecting-the-fomc-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gomarkets.com\/en\/articles\/central-banks\/dissecting-the-fomc-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Dissecting the FOMC Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Deepta Bolaky<\/strong><br \/>\n<img style=\"float: left; width: 20px; padding-top: 4px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gomarkets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/twitter.png\" \/>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeeptaGOMarkets\">@DeeptaGOMarkets<\/a><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Dissecting the FOMC Statement<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The US Federal Reserve cut interest rates overnight by 25 basis points, taking the US Federal Funds rate to 2.25%. The rate cut was mostly seen as a hawkish one. In the press conference, Chair Powell said that the central bank\u2019s rate cut was a <em>\u201cmid-cycle adjustment to policy<\/em>\u201d rather than\u00a0<em>\u201cthe beginning of a long series of rate cuts.\u201d <\/em>We have dissected the July FOMC statement in comparison with the June statement to highlight the changes for ease of reference.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-101102\" title=\"Federal Open Market Committee statement\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gomarkets.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Capture.png\" alt=\"Federal Open Market Committee statement\" width=\"647\" height=\"862\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gomarkets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Capture.png 616w, https:\/\/www.gomarkets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Capture-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/www.gomarkets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Capture-600x800.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 647px) 100vw, 647px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><em>Disclaimer: Articles and videos from GO Markets analysts are based on their independent analysis. Views expressed are of their own and of a \u2018general\u2019 nature. Advice (if any) are not based on the reader\u2019s personal objectives, financial situation or needs. \u00a0Readers should, therefore, consider how appropriate the advice (if any) is to their objectives, financial situation and needs, before acting on the advice.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gomarkets.com\/forex-education-courses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.gomarkets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Next-Steps-Blog-Bottom-Banner.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Deepta Bolaky \u00a0@DeeptaGOMarkets Dissecting the FOMC Statement The US Federal Reserve cut interest rates overnight by 25 basis points, taking the US Federal Funds rate to 2.25%. The rate cut was mostly seen as a hawkish one. In the press conference, Chair Powell said that the central bank\u2019s rate cut was a \u201cmid-cycle adjustment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2805],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dissecting the FOMC Statement - GO Markets<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gomarkets.com\/en\/articles\/central-banks\/dissecting-the-fomc-statement\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dissecting the FOMC Statement - GO Markets\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Deepta Bolaky \u00a0@DeeptaGOMarkets Dissecting the FOMC Statement The US Federal Reserve cut interest rates overnight by 25 basis points, taking the US Federal Funds rate to 2.25%. 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