{"id":242167,"date":"2010-01-28T11:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T16:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/gartman-the-fed-is-finally-becoming-more-confident-about-the-economy-2010-1"},"modified":"2010-01-28T11:22:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T16:22:00","slug":"gartman-the-fed-is-finally-becoming-more-confident-about-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/242167","title":{"rendered":"Gartman: The Fed Is Finally Becoming More Confident About The Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4adc61260000000000c6263b\/dennisgartmancnbcpng.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"dennisgartmancnbc.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Usually, analyst <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/dennis-gartman\">Dennis Gartman<\/a> takes on a negative tone about our government in his daily newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>Today, however, Mr. Gartman has shifted tones and notes that the Fed&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/well-if-the-fomc-wont-budge-maybe-the-market-will-for-them-2009-12\">FOMC message<\/a> yesterday is a sign of better things to come.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">As for the FOMC meeting everyone knows that the Fed has held policy steady and that it retained the all important &ldquo;&rdquo;exceptionally low levels of the London Sales: Donald Berman, Alberdon International funds rate for federal is the most important phrase in this month&rsquo;s report, as it was in December&rsquo;s report, and as it was in late October. The language of the first paragraph has changed ever so slightly from what was written previously, noting only that &ldquo;business spending on equipment and software appears to be picking up&rdquo; compared to &ldquo;businesses are still cutting back on fixed investment, though at a slower pace&hellip;..&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In December and again this month the Committee went out of its way noting that employers &ldquo;remain reluctant to add to payrolls.&rdquo; We take that as a signal that the Fed will absolutely not begin tightening monetary policy until such time as it is clear that unemployment is falling, and probably has been falling for several months.<\/p>\n<p>The Fed did change is view on the economy from being &ldquo;weak&rdquo; to being &ldquo;moderate&rdquo; and that is perhaps a change worthy of note. Too, it appears that the Fed is a bit more confident that household spending is turning for the better, although only at the same &ldquo;moderate rate&rdquo; if forecast back in December.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/gartman-the-fed-is-finally-becoming-more-confident-about-the-economy-2010-1#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/gartman-my-first-prediction-for-2010-2010-1\">Dennis Gartman&#8217;s First Prediction For 2010: The US Will Grow Like Gangbusters And Surprise Everyone<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/gartman-blame-democratic-mayors-for-nationwide-poverty-2009-12\">Gartman: Blame Democratic Mayors For Nationwide Poverty<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/gartman-heres-how-to-go-long-gold-without-the-dollar-2009-12\">Gartman: Here&#8217;s How To Go Long Gold In Another Currency<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/-7UI7FYpMmg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usually, analyst Dennis Gartman takes on a negative tone about our government in his daily newsletter. Today, however, Mr. Gartman has shifted tones and notes that the Fed&#8217;s FOMC message yesterday is a sign of better things to come. As for the FOMC meeting everyone knows that the Fed has held policy steady and that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}