23 Quotes by Ian Gunner

The fact that he is saying 'moderately augment' would appear to suggest that this will be a 25bp rather than a 50bp hike and that future rate hikes may also be limited.

There was a big knee-jerk reaction to the Moody's upgrade, but longer term, I don't think much has changed.

There's a general upside bias for the dollar right across the board, but that inclination is tempered a little when you come up against big events like the trade data.

The U.S. rate argument is unequivocal. Rates are going to keep on going up for the time being.

It's a bit dangerous to be aggressively selling the dollar at the moment. If we're still getting strong economic data it's not clear that U.S. rate increases are going to stop as soon as people think.

It's the first key Fed speech since the scale of the devastation became apparent so that could be quite important if he is used as a vehicle to express Fed policy.

If people are looking for excuses as to why the European Central Bank may feel their hands are a little tied in the short-term (on rates) they could use this, but I think there's a whole wealth of information suggesting that things are on the mend.

I don't think it changes anything too much, in terms of what he might do at the next meeting -- it's unclear but he's very much in the minority.

I don't think the Fed are going to signal any kind of pause in rate increases next week. There's no reason the dollar can't continue to benefit from the rate advantage.