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By Craig Torres, Bloomberg |
April 9, 2013
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond President Jeffrey Lacker said plans to limit the size or change the structure of the largest financial institutions must be made with the intent of allowing a failure without government aid.
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By Steve Matthews, Bloomberg |
April 3, 2013
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard said the Fed is in no hurry to reduce its record bond buying with inflation running below its 2 percent target.
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By Steven K. Beckner |
April 1, 2013
Concern has been growing among Federal Reserve officials that the Fed’s low interest rate policies are causing excessive risk-taking in search of higher yields, but that doesn’t mean the Fed is about to abandon its employment goals.
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By Jeanna Smialek and Jeff Kearns, Bloomberg |
March 8, 2013
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard said the central bank probably will press on with its asset purchases as contained inflation expectations give it time to continue the quantitative easing.
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By Steve Matthews and Joshua Zumbrun, Bloomberg |
February 21, 2013
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard said U.S. unemployment may drop to 6.5% by the middle of next year and prompt the central bank to raise its benchmark interest rate from near zero.
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By Steve Matthews, Bloomberg |
February 14, 2013
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard said central bank stimulus has been ramped up this year with the decision to increase outright bond purchases to $85 billion a month and that a growing balance sheet could be complicated to unwind.
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By Steve Matthews, Bloomberg |
February 13, 2013
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard said signs of more stability in U.S. fiscal policy, the housing market and the global economy will probably help fuel economic growth in 2013.
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By Simon Kennedy and Scott Rose, Bloomberg |
January 16, 2013
The world is on the brink of a fresh “currency war,” Russia warned, as European policy makers joined Japan in bemoaning the economic cost of rising exchange rates.
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By Steve Matthews and Caroline Salas Gage, Bloomberg |
November 20, 2012
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond President Jeffrey Lacker said he opposes a proposal to tie central bank stimulus to the U.S. unemployment rate because such a move may spur inflation.
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By Phil Flynn |
November 16, 2012
Oil prices seemed to shake off worries surrounding the increasing tensions in the Gaza strip and instead decided to focus on the weak jobless claims and the looming fiscal cliff.
