
Unfortunately for the new Fed Chairman she will have some pressure on her first hearing because of Friday's poor jobs numbers. This should be a very big risk event as market participants will pay attention to any new changes in the Fed's forward guidance policy and for sure it will set the tone for this week price action.
If you're asking me there are 2 major things the market will focus on:
- Fed forward guidance policy as the unemployment rate is already 0.1% from Fed's target of 6.5%, which if we take them by their word they should start raising rates when that mark is hit, but this is not the case at least for the time being.
- Secondly, Yellen is known as a QE support so the market participants for sure will want to know what is her view on the pace of tapering in regard with the recent poor jobs figures. And here my view is that she will stick to the current tapering plan, which is 10B/meeting.
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Daytrader21