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Please define and explain hawkish / dovish

  • #1
  • First Post: Jan 10, 2008 4:38am Jan 10, 2008 4:38am
Can someone please explain me little about Hawkish / Dovish.
I am confused.. What do you mean by it.. And how can we know, what points to look for to state its Hawkish / Dovish.

And what does Hawkish / Dovish Statement does.

I am sure others who have confusion on this, will understand.. Please someone explain

thank you
  • #2
  • Jan 10, 2008 5:00am Jan 10, 2008 5:00am
looks like no one knows about it
  • #3
  • Jan 10, 2008 5:02am Jan 10, 2008 5:02am
OK I FOUND SOME INFORMATION


What does Hawkish mean? We've heard it a lot lately in the financial news. "RBA maintaining a hawkish stance", "Yen gains as BOJ keeps up hawkish rhetoric", "Paris shares close higher, supported by less hawkish ECB comments", " Euro gains brief boost from hawkish Trichet comments" and "RNBZ Gets Hawkish, And Does Nothing". We all know that a hawk (noun) is a, "relatively small diurnal bird of prey with short rounded wings and very good eyesight which hunts by pouncing on small birds and mammals." To go hawking (verb) is to hunt with a hawk. To be hawkish – the adjective form of the word is simply described as "like a hawk". So in financial terms, what is the definition for hawkish?

The definition of hawkish is this: it is an aggressive stance. Just as a hawk is aggressive in hunting its prey, being hawkish relates to the aggressive stance taken with regard to the topic. For example, if there is a threat of high inflation, to describe the reserve bank of a country being hawkish in any official statement may mean they are leaning towards a stronger action such as favouring an increase in interest rates to dampen high inflation. The antonym (opposite) to hawkish is dovish.
  • #4
  • Jan 10, 2008 5:41am Jan 10, 2008 5:41am
So with the dovish.. it just the opposite of hawkish.Sometimes I cannot explain world etimology but i do understand the meaning when i read the news or the statement

Quoting jacobtrader
OK I FOUND SOME INFORMATION


What does Hawkish mean? We've heard it a lot lately in the financial news. "RBA maintaining a hawkish stance", "Yen gains as BOJ keeps up hawkish rhetoric", "Paris shares close higher, supported by less hawkish ECB comments", " Euro gains brief boost from hawkish Trichet comments" and "RNBZ Gets Hawkish, And Does Nothing". We all know that a hawk (noun) is a, "relatively small diurnal bird of prey with short rounded wings and very good eyesight which hunts by pouncing on small birds and mammals." To go hawking (verb) is to hunt with a hawk. To be hawkish – the adjective form of the word is simply described as "like a hawk". So in financial terms, what is the definition for hawkish?

The definition of hawkish is this: it is an aggressive stance. Just as a hawk is aggressive in hunting its prey, being hawkish relates to the aggressive stance taken with regard to the topic. For example, if there is a threat of high inflation, to describe the reserve bank of a country being hawkish in any official statement may mean they are leaning towards a stronger action such as favouring an increase in interest rates to dampen high inflation. The antonym (opposite) to hawkish is dovish.
  • #5
  • Last Post: Aug 14, 2014 2:59am Aug 14, 2014 2:59am
Thanks. Very useful
Anton Clark
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