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GLOBAL MARKET/OPINION
GLOBAL MARKET/OPINION: ###Boesen-Zeitung is running an editorial on the old
topic of increasing the 2% inflation target, bringing up the topic ahead of the
Jackson Hole Summit starting tomorrow evening.
- POV. At the June FOMC press conference, Fed Chair Yellen appeared to allow a
crack in the door to this debate by remarking "We very much look forward to
seeing research by economists that will help inform our future decisions on
this"
- At 6pm MT tomorrow, a list of the research papers to be presented at Jackson
Hole is due to be released. Remember that he title of the Symposium is
"Fostering a Dynamic Global Economy" and a paper on higher inflation targets
would certainly come within the scope of the topic. 
- Look out for a paper that adopts a positive view of higher inflation targets.
If it's there, a natural yield curve reaction would be to steepen. 

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