{"id":27841,"date":"2026-05-07T13:29:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T13:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/feds-collins-pushes-back-on-cut-talk-wants-either-way-guidance\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T13:29:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T13:29:42","slug":"feds-collins-pushes-back-on-cut-talk-wants-either-way-guidance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/feds-collins-pushes-back-on-cut-talk-wants-either-way-guidance\/","title":{"rendered":"Fed\u2019s Collins pushes back on cut talk, wants \u201ceither way\u201d guidance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-detail__content blocks\">\n<p class=\"is-style-lead\">Boston Fed President Susan Collins backed holding rates steady and urged the Fed to strip out language that implicitly points to cuts as the next move, reinforcing a higher\u2011for\u2011longer stance that has repeatedly whipsawed crypto when markets price in dovish pivots too early.<\/p>\n<div id=\"cn-block-summary-block_ead1ce9adce8e18445d603c9d4655ee0\" class=\"cn-block-summary\">\n<div class=\"cn-block-summary__nav tabs\">\n        <span class=\"tabs__item is-selected\">Summary<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"cn-block-summary__content\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Boston Fed President Susan Collins said she supports holding interest rates steady and wants the Fed\u2019s statement language changed so it does not implicitly point to a rate cut as the next move.<\/li>\n<li>Collins argued that policy may need to stay unchanged for a \u201clonger period\u201d and said more officials want to signal that the next step could be \u201ceither a rate cut or a rate hike\u201d as inflation proves persistent.<\/li>\n<li>The stance reinforces a higher\u2011for\u2011longer rates narrative that has repeatedly whipsawed crypto, with past Fed surprises hitting Bitcoin and Ethereum when markets leaned too far into dovish expectations.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .cn-block-summary --><\/p>\n<p>Collins told reporters she backed the latest decision to keep rates on hold but \u201chopes to adjust the wording of the statement to avoid implying a rate cut,\u201d according to a summary of her remarks carried by Jinshi and echoed in recent coverage of her speeches. She added that \u201can increasing number of officials\u201d want the Federal Open Market Committee to signal that the next policy move \u201ccould be either a rate cut or a rate hike,\u201d rather than embedding a dovish bias into forward guidance.<\/p>\n<p>That message is consistent with Collins\u2019s recent comments. In late February, she said it was \u201cquite likely\u201d the central bank would keep rates unchanged \u201cfor some time,\u201d arguing that after cumulative easing, policy was already \u201cmildly restrictive, perhaps quite close to neutral,\u201d and that a \u201cpatient and deliberate approach is appropriate at this stage.\u201d In March, she told another audience she saw \u201cno urgency\u201d to change rates and would need \u201cclear evidence\u201d that inflation is moving sustainably toward 2% before supporting cuts.<\/p>\n<p>Collins has for months been part of the Fed\u2019s higher\u2011for\u2011longer camp. In prior cycles, she repeatedly set a \u201chigh bar\u201d for additional easing, saying she would be \u201creluctant to support further interest rate cuts anytime soon with inflation still high,\u201d and warning that premature easing could \u201cdelay \u2013 or potentially halt \u2013 the return of inflation to the target level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her latest push to strip out language that hints at cuts matters for markets that have spent much of 2026 front\u2011running dovish pivots. The crypto market has already seen how sensitive it is to Fed surprises: when the central bank delivered a widely expected 25 basis point cut earlier this year, Bitcoin and Ethereum failed to extend their pre\u2011meeting rally because \u201cthe move was fully priced in,\u201d as one post\u2011mortem explained, leaving BTC stuck around $92,000 and ETH near $3,400.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p>\n<p>If Collins and other hawks succeed in shifting the statement to a more symmetric \u201ceither way\u201d framing, it will likely reinforce the idea that policy can stay tight even as growth cools, a backdrop that tends to cap speculative excess in crypto. A recent\u00a0crypto.news\u00a0analysis showed how hints of more cuts from other Fed officials briefly lifted sentiment before fading as traders realized the timing was uncertain. Another\u00a0crypto.news\u00a0report contrasted Bitcoin\u2019s choppy reaction to the last Fed decision with gold\u2019s cleaner safe\u2011haven bid, while a broader\u00a0crypto.news\u00a0macro piece argued that as long as rate cuts remain a moving target, \u201cmacro chop\u201d will continue to dominate price action across BTC, ETH, and altcoins.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Fed President Susan Collins backed holding rates steady and urged the Fed to strip out language that implicitly points to cuts as the next move, reinforcing a higher\u2011for\u2011longer stance&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27842,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27841\/revisions\/27842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}