美聯儲主席耶倫：近月很可能會加息

美聯儲主席珍妮特·耶倫週五表示，美聯儲很可能在接下來的幾個月加息，因為她十分看好經濟和就業市場的前景。

耶倫表示：“美聯儲的加息是慎之又慎，接下來的幾個月是加息的好時機。”

耶倫表示：“在經歷了艱難的第一季度之後，美國的經濟逐漸開始複蘇。”商務部週五早間公佈的數據顯示，美國第一季度的國内生產總值增加了0.8%。

聯邦公開市場委員會將在六月中旬和七月下旬召開會議。鑒於耶倫的表現，六月加息的可能性有30%，七月加息的可能性則高達58%。

耶倫曾在今年三月就加息的問題發表過意見，但是Amherst Pierpont證券公司的首席分析家Stephen Stanley提醒客戶：“耶倫今天的講話表明她的想法也是會改變的，她可能很快就會考慮加息的事情了。”

耶倫在哈佛大學回答了一些問題，並做出了一些評論，其觀點同他的同事傑羅姆·鮑威爾在上週四發表的觀點一致。

同鮑威爾一樣，耶倫也認為疲軟的生成力增長是很痛苦的。

她說：“這是個嚴肅而負面的問題。”

Fed’s Yellen says an interest-rate rise is probably coming in ‘months’

Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen on Friday said an interest-rate rise may coming in a matter of “months,” as she expected the economy, and importantly, the jobs market, to continue to get better.

 “It’s appropriate — and I have said this in the past—for the Fed to gradually and cautiously increase our overnight interest rate over time,” Yellen said, “and probably in the coming months such a move would be appropriate.”

She said indicators point to the U.S. economy rebounding after a difficult first quarter. “Growth looks to be picking up,” she said. The Commerce Department earlier on Friday reported a 0.8% gain in first-quarter gross domestic product.

Though the comments weren't unusual given what some other Federal Reserve officials have recently stated, many market observers thought she would wait until a speech in early June in Philadelphia before signaling where rates would be headed. U.S. stocks SPX, +0.11% lost some ground after Yellen’s comments.

The Federal Open Market Committee, which determines interest rates, is meeting for two days in the middle of June, and again in late July. Heading into Yellen’s appearance, markets priced in a 30% chance of a rate increase in June, and a 58% chance of a bump by July.

“Those who had been dubious about the hawkish rhetoric from other Fed officials have been relying on the extreme dovishness of Yellen’s late March remarks to argue that the more recent comments by officials who are not the chair do not matter,” saidStephen Stanley, chief economist at Amherst Pierpont Securities, in a note to clients. “I think what Yellen’s brief comments today tell us is that her views have evolved, perhaps more than anyone else’s, and that she is willing to contemplate a rate hike soon.”

Yellen, answering questions at a Harvard University event where she received an award, made comments that were similar to what her colleague, Fed Gov. Jerome Powell, made on Thursday.

Like Powell, Yellen also commented on weak productivity growth, which the Fed chief called “miserable.”

“That’s a serious and negative development,” she said.

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文章來源：http://www.marketwatch.com/story/feds-yellen-says-an-interest-rate-rise-is-probably-coming-in-months-2016-05-27