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By Silla Brush and Jim Brunsden, Bloomberg |
May 7, 2013
U.S. regulators face renewed pressure from congressional lawmakers to ease Dodd-Frank Act derivatives requirements amid mounting criticism from Wall Street and overseas officials that the rules overreach.
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By Cheyenne Hopkins |
April 24, 2013
More legislation is needed to rein in biggest U.S. banks because the Dodd-Frank Act has failed to guard taxpayers, the bill’s sponsors said.
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By Simon Kennedy and Steve Matthews |
April 16, 2013
The slump in gold may hand activist central bankers more reasons to pursue continued easy monetary policy.
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By Lorraine Woellert, Craig Torres and Cheyenne Hopkins, Bloomberg |
April 10, 2013
Banks including Citigroup Inc. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc., along with congressional staff members and trade groups, received potentially market-moving Federal Reserve information 19 hours before the public.
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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 Caroline Salas Gage and Joshua Zumbrun, Bloomberg |
March 11, 2013
When Ben S. Bernanke asserted last month that the Federal Reserve doesn’t ever have to sell assets, he raised questions about how the central bank can withdraw its record monetary stimulus without stoking inflation.
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By Cheyenne Hopkins and Silla Brush |
March 6, 2013
Lawmakers introduced legislation that would allow more swaps trading to be conducted at banks that have federal insurance.
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By Caroline Salas Gage and Joshua Zumbrun, Bloomberg |
February 27, 2013
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said the central bank may decide to hold bonds on its $3.1 trillion balance sheet to maturity as part of a review of its strategy for an exit from record monetary easing.
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By Craig Torres, Josh Zumbrun and Caroline Salas Gage, Bloomberg |
February 26, 2013
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke’s efforts to rescue the economy could result in more than a half trillion dollars of paper losses on the central bank’s books if interest rates rise abruptly from recent levels.
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By Craig Torres and Cheyenne Hopkins, Bloomberg |
February 4, 2013
Top U.S. bank regulators and lawmakers are pushing for action to limit the risk that the government again winds up financing the rescue of one or more of the nation’s biggest financial institutions.
