The annual symposium
organised by the Kansas City Federal Reserve takes place from today, Thursday
27th August to Saturday of this week. The event, which provides a
forum and informal meeting occasion for central bankers, finance academics and
commentators from all over the world, has been used in the past as the launch
pad for some of the more recent significant events that have taken place in
global Forex. For example, in 2012, the then chairman of the US Federal
Reserve, Ben Bernanke, used it as the occasion to effectively launce a new
round of Quantitative Easing in the US .
Last year, 2014, Mario Draghi
used his Jackson Hole speech to call for
greater fiscal union within the EU. He also emulated Bernanke in 2012 by giving
the broadest hints made up to that time that the EU would also consider QE.
This has since come to pass.
The Kansas City Fed is very
proud of the fact that it only facilitates the Jackson
Hole symposium – it does not host it. All participants must pay a
fee to attend and must cover their own costs of transportation and
accommodation. This applies even to those journalists that wish to put in an
appearance.
Yellen will not attend this year
It has proven difficult to
obtain a list of this year’s attendees in order to try to anticipate what, if
any, signals might be given that would impact Foreign Exchange. The only
announcement that has been made is that Janet Yellen, Chair of the US Fed, will
not be in attendance on this occasion. Her place will be filled by Stanley
Fischer, who is Vice-Chair.
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