The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) and the Federal Reserve Board of Governors Board of Governors are set to convene on Tuesday at 9 a.m. EST, kicking off the latest two-day FOMC meeting. The Board of Governors meet eight times a year ...
Read More »Fed’s Beige Book Builds Case for Further Rate Hikes
On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve released its latest edition of the Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions, more commonly known as the Beige Book. The Book is published in advance of each meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee, ...
Read More »Fed Minutes: More Interest Rate Hikes Incoming
The minutes from the January meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee were released on Wednesday, showing Federal Reserve officials forecasting increased economic growth and inflation. Both factors led the Fed officials to stand firm on their plans to gradually ...
Read More »How Many Interest Rate Hikes Inbound in 2018?
With the Federal Reserve now under the leadership of recently sworn-in new Fed Chair Jerome Powell, many are watching to see how he deals with the challenges of the current market, and how his responses and philosophy will differ from ...
Read More »When It Comes to Interest Rates, Mind the Curve
The Fed is expected to continue gradually raising interest rates in 2018, but the president of the St. Louis Fed urges caution along that path to avoid a “yield curve inversion.”
Read More »Fed Nixes Rate Hike in May Meeting
The Federal Open Market Committee opted to keep the federal funds rate as-is during its May meeting. The FOMC raised the rate in March from 0.75 to 1 percent. It was largely expected that the FOMC would raise rates at least two more times over the course of 2017.
Read More »Fed Says April Rate Hike is All But Off the Table
The Fed noted in the minutes that “raising the target range as soon as April would signal a sense of urgency (FOMC participants) did not think appropriate.”
Read More »Yellen is Dovish on Future Rate Hikes
So far this year, two Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meetings have come and gone with no further rate increase.
Read More »Study Shows Fed is Unlikely to Reverse Course
Economic slowdowns have caused many to believe that the Fed will cut rates instead of raising them in the next few months But one analysis says that is not likely to happen.
Read More »Will the FOMC Make the Fed’s 2016 Forecast for Rate Hikes Come True?
Recently there have been mixed reports coming from policymakers on the state of the economy.
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