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By Michelle Jamrisko, Bloomberg |
April 11, 2014
More favorable views of current conditions and the outlook show consumers are taking higher prices at grocery stores and gas stations in stride, indicating gains in household purchases will be sustained.
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By Joseph Ciolli and Callie Bost, Bloomberg |
March 20, 2014
“The market has digested and even discounted a bit what Yellen said, and put things into perspective,” Stephen Carl, said.
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By Press Release |
March 19, 2014
The Committee expects that, with appropriate policy accommodation, economic activity will expand at a moderate pace and labor market conditions will continue to improve gradually.
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By Martin McGuire |
March 19, 2014
There should be 12 FOMC meetings between December 2016 and June 2018. At 127 bps, the market is pricing roughly 10.6 bps of tightening per meeting over this period.
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By Martin McGuire |
February 21, 2014
I saw the Fed as having a greater confidence in the sustainability of moderate pace growth. They showed lesser concern for the risk of weaker inflation.
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By Andrew Wilkinson |
February 20, 2014
As much as the weather did impact output and crimp activity, the reality is that the economy is slowly normalizing and that monthly payroll creation above 200,000 is likely to happen this year.
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By John Detrixhe, Bloomberg |
February 10, 2014
A gauge of major currency volatility fell to the lowest level in more than two weeks before Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen gives her first monetary-policy report to Congress tomorrow.
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By Daniel P. Collins |
February 9, 2014
Since Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke first brought up the notion of tapering there has been hysteria over the inevitable tightening of interest rates. Some people confused tapering for tightening and some insist it is the same thing.
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By Paul Zimnisky |
February 3, 2014
Even after five years of the Fed’s most aggressive accommodative policy in history, there is still a lack of hoped for quality credit creation in the economy, which could be a sign that the greatest deleveraging of the U.S. economy since the Great Depression is still not complete. The Fed’s...
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By John Caiazzo |
February 3, 2014
The U.S. Federal Reserve decided to withdraw $10 billion from its monthly purchases in spite of the global concerns and the slowdown in emerging markets and that concerned investors are now left “wondering” what the next “shoe to drop” will be.
