dovish
- adjective
- /ˈdʌvɪʃ/
- Specialized
- If anything, Mankiw's early career and his support for New Keynesian economics contrast with Bernanke's fascination with Milton Friedman and suggest that Mankiw might even be more dovish than Chairman Bernanke.
- dovish Fed
- dovish stance
- dovish policy
So Jerome Powell's talk today was very dovish.
- So Jerome Powell's talk today was very dovish.
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Bottom line: Yellen delivers a dovish speech, siding with Evans and Kocherlakota, who had previously advocated explicit inflation and unemployment guidelines for policy change.
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It was significantly more dovish than June's minutes, which suggests that the third round of quantitative easing may come much sooner than what most market participants had initially expected.
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Why does he need to be dovish when financial conditions are being dovish for him?
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On average, then, this is relatively dovish.
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As might be expected from Yellen, there was a dovish tone to the speech.
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So bottom line, if Powell goes dovish, I think we get massive rallies.
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When you when you have dovish policy that weakens the dollar stock market, stocks go up.
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Yellen delivers a dovish speech, siding with Evans and Kocherlakota, who had previously advocated explicit inflation and unemployment guidelines for policy change.
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The Fed's dovish stance indicates a preference for lower interest rates to support economic growth.
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Analysts expect a dovish approach in the upcoming monetary policy review, focusing on stimulating the economy.
Antonyms
Compounds
A policy that prefers talks and peaceful solutions instead of force in foreign or economic affairs
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Morphology
Etymology
Dovish comes from the bird dove, which stands for 'gentle' action, so in finance a dovish central banker prefers 'lower interest rates' and other easy steps to help the economy grow rather than strict rules to fight inflation.