TradingFloor.com Releases Video on Meeting of Global Central Bankers
Released on: August 25, 2011, 12:38 pm
Author: Saxo Bank
Industry:
Financial
TradingFloor.com, the home of Saxo Bank's trading commentary,
financial research and analysis, has released a video discussing the
important meeting of a number of global central bankers at Jackson Hole
in the U.S.
The state of the economy and the more active role of central banks to help rectify
this means that investors are keenly interested in the fact that a number of global
central bankers are meeting in Jackson Hole. There is also a lot of interest in what
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will or won't say when he addresses the
meeting in a press conference.
Steen Jakobsen, chief economist, Saxo Bank, discusses his views on the market
expectations and what the likely outcome of this meeting will be in
TradingFloor.com's latest video 'Constructive Jackson Hole solution or more of the
same?'
Last year, during the same meeting in a mountainside retreat, Ben Bernanke surprised
everyone by announcing a second round of Quantitative Easing. With concerns about a
double dip recession rising, people are expecting a big announcement this time
around too. Steen Jakobsen believes that the main objective of Bernanke's press
conference will be to avoid "Japanisation", which is a deflationary environment
with low growth and low interest rates through more of the same monetary policy.
Recent data also suggests that the U.S. economy is going to need some sort of help
in the form on intervention in the fourth quarter. Steen believes that even though
quarter two was a failure, Bernanke will continue to defend the easing concept,
despite his reputation is on the line. Bernanke is expected to claim that without
the easing concept, the situation would have probably ended up being much worse.
A press conference by Jean-Claude Trichet the European Central Bank President, will
follow that of Bernanke. He is also expected to defend the bank's previous actions
in raising rates, despite receiving heavy criticism that this was out of sync with
the rest of Europe.
Steen states that the hope is that Trichet will now come up with some real solutions
for the Eurozone's economic problems. This should hopefully mean the Eurozone will
lean more towards solidarity and consolidation, thus getting rid of the pointless
political battles which have been making the problems worse.
About TradingFloor.com:
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TradingFloor.com's diverse contributors who range from macroeconomists to trading
advisors, all strive to deliver insightful, enlightened commentary on trading in the
financial markets - particularly on forex and forex trading,
equities, stocks and commodities. Tradingfloor.com also publishes periodical
model-based research and analysis to help longer-term traders allocate funds between
and within asset classes.
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