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Fed Says Economic Conditions Are Approaching the Point of Being Ready for Rate Hike
...conditions likely would make it appropriate at some point this year to raise the federal funds rate target, thereby beginning to normalize the stance of monetary policy," said Janet Yellen,...
Read More »Ohio Senator Urges Regulators to Act Against ‘Zombie Debts’
...Chair Janet Yellen, Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chairman Martin Gruenberg, and National Credit Union Administration Chairman Debbie Matz. Brown's letter urges the regulators to...
Read More »Fed Determines More Labor Market Growth Is Needed In Order to Raise Rates
...this policy should help maintain accommodative financial condition by keeping the Committee's holdings of longer-term securities at sizable levels. Janet Yellen, FOMC chair revealed at a mid-July House Financial Services...
Read More »Fed Rules Eight Banks to be Held to Minimum Capital Holdings or Surcharges
...each firm's total risk-weighted assets. The GSIB surcharge will be phased in from January 1, 2016, until January 1, 2019, when it becomes fully effective. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen...
Read More »DS News Webcast: Monday 7/20/2015
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen addressed the subject of the much-anticipated federal funds range increase in two separate Congressional hearings this week. Yellen said that more economic improvement, particularly in...
Read More »Fed Likely to Raise Rates By Year’s End If ‘Economy Evolves’ As Expected
Janet Yellen Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen had a busy week, making semi-annual appearances before the House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday and the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday. In...
Read More »House Subcommittee Examines Fed’s Transparency and Accountability
...for circumventing any Congressional accountability. Markets are left in the dark almost as much as Congress." Fed Chair Janet Yellen responded to allegations of a lack of transparency of the...
Read More »Congressional Hearings to Cover Economy, Monetary Policy, and Agencies’ Activities
...will receive the testimony of Fed Chair Janet Yellen in a full Committee hearing titled "Monetary Policy and the State of the Economy." Chair Yellen will update the Committee on...
Read More »Democratic Senators Call For Investigation of Possible Discrimination in REO Maintenance
...to HUD Secretary Julián Castro, Fed Chair Janet Yellen, Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry, FDIC Chair Martin Gruenberg, CFPB Director Richard Cordray, NCUA Chair Debbie Matz, and FHFA Director...
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