15 Quotes by Mark Cliffe

I don't think anybody expects them to move on rates given their recent rhetoric.

For most people in financial markets, this is typically put in a box labeled 'too difficult'. There's just no sensible way of producing a systematic probability of the outcomes and it's very hard to put numbers or values on it.

His reputation as an arch-dove on inflation is rather misleading.

It certainly looks rather more realistic than it did before the release of these figures.

I think the market is in a dangerous position,

Markets want to hear some kind of hint that they'll back up these words with action, specifically intervention in foreign exchanges to drive the euro higher.

I think most of the staffing implications have already been taken on board. It has been happening gradually over a period of time.

I think he's going to lean towards indicating that the Fed isn't in a hurry to raise rates,

I think he's still concerned to keep the stock market afloat and to hold down bond yields. He's going to be more inclined to talk the markets up rather than down.