Fed funds

Conflicted Fed creates opportunity

By Greg Adamsick | December 24, 2014

There were three dissents among the voters in this FOMC meeting which in itself is a bit unusual but the fact that two came from the “Hawkish” side and one from the “Dovish” side shows the wide range of opinions on the economy.

Fed pledges patience on rates

By Christopher Condon, Bloomberg | December 17, 2014

“The committee judges that it can be patient in beginning to normalize the stance of monetary policy,” the Federal Open Market Committee said today in a statement in Washington, removing a calendar-based phrase with language that gives it more flexibility

Fed drops "considerable time"

December 17, 2014

In determining how long to maintain this target range, the Committee will assess progress--both realized and expected--toward its objectives of maximum employment and 2 percent inflation.

Fed ignores October downturn

By Andrew Wilkinson | October 29, 2014

What the Fed manages to avoid is any reference to the global financial market turmoil witnessed earlier in October. Instead, they noted that, on balance, there had been “a substantial improvement in the outlook for the labor market

QE3 ends

By Press Release | October 29, 2014

The Fed's FOMC votes to end QE3, keeps "considerable time" language

Bad news is good news again

By RCM Asset Management | September 8, 2014

The credibility of the Federal Reserve appears to be waning as the market refuses to take their threats of pulling away the liquidity punchbowl seriously. On what was, by any objective measure, a spectacularly bad non-farms payroll number on Friday, the S&P 500 futures rallied

Fed may be closer to policy shift

By Matt Weller | August 20, 2014

Though the vote in favor of last month’s policy statement was a relatively tame 9-1 decision, with hardcore hawk Charles Plosser as the only dissenter, the recently released minutes showed more discord within the committee than the statement let on.

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