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By Craig Torres, Bloomberg |
May 10, 2013
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said risks persist in wholesale funding markets used frequently by Wall Street brokers to finance securities trading.
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By Joshua Zumbrun and Jeff Kearns, Bloomberg |
May 2, 2013
The Federal Reserve said it will keep buying bonds at a monthly pace of $85 billion while standing ready to raise or lower purchases as economic conditions evolve.
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By Steve Matthews and Jeff Kearns |
April 25, 2013
Debate among Federal Reserve policy makers is shifting away from the timing of a reduction in bond buying to the need to extend record stimulus as inflation cools and 11.7 million Americans remain jobless.
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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 Joshua Zumbrun and Aki Ito, Bloomberg |
October 9, 2012
An unexpected drop in the jobless rate last month illustrates the hurdles faced by Federal Reserve officials seeking to link monetary policy to specific economic indicators.
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By Aki Ito and Joe Carroll, Bloomberg |
September 26, 2012
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans said policy makers must not be passive in the face of high U.S. unemployment, firing back at critics of the Fed’s decision this month to step up record stimulus.
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By Allison Bennett, Bloomberg |
September 21, 2012
The euro gained against the dollar and yen after Italian and Spanish leaders agreed to keep working to stabilize regional financial markets.
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By Brian Dolan |
May 12, 2012
The market anticipates interest rate direction in England, while some see the beginning of the end for the Eurozone.
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By Joshua Zumbrun and Jeff Kearns, Bloomberg |
April 24, 2012
The Federal Reserve tried to bring more clarity to policy making in January by releasing Fed officials’ forecasts for interest rates. Instead, it may be creating confusion.
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By Jon Nadler |
April 13, 2012
Yesterday’s “Fedspectations” turned down a notch as market participants had somewhat bigger news this morning; specifically, the story out of China that there has been a sharper-than-expected slow-down in that country’s economy.
