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Three major banks are reporting their fourth-quarter financial results before the markets open on Friday. In general, financial stocks have made solid gains through the end of 2016, with a tremendous...
The Federal Reserve has released its minutes of the December 13 – 14 (2016) FOMC meeting. It turns out that Janet Yellen and her team of Federal Reserve presidents may be looking just a tad more...
The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia has shown that the pace of growth for regional non-manufacturing activity rose in December.
While the latest Consumer Price Index may not look extremely hot on inflationary pressures, its supports why the Federal Reserve raised the federal funds rate on Wednesday.
To virtually no one’s surprise, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) of the Federal Reserve raised the policy interest rate from a range of 0.25% to 0.5% to a new range of 0.5% to 0.75%. In its...
Be warned that a rate hike by the Federal Reserve looks imminent for Wednesday, and one or two more rate hikes might be in the bag toward the middle of 2017.
If you have been anxiously awaiting that long-expected interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve, this week is when you are likely to see it take place. Janet Yellen and the Federal Open Market...
The time has come for the Federal Reserve to start raising rates again. Certain sectors tend to either benefit from rising rates or are not affected much.
Over the weekend, 24/7 Wall St. released its Federal Reserve rate hike watch with an overwhelming chance for a rate hike in December, only to find another call for a rise in rates looking more likely...
New York Federal Reserve President William Dudley is the latest Federal Reserve member to talk up interest rates.
There is going to be some serious food for thought in the coming weeks. As 2016 comes to an end, there has been a substantial post-election rally around the notion that Donald Trump as President is...
The Federal Reserve’s Beige Book is often reported as though it is an economic report or as though it is an official Federal Reserve report. It turns out that the Beige Book summarizes comments...
Federal Reserve Governor Jerome Powell was speaking at the Economic Club of Indiana in Indianapolis on Tuesday, and he talked up the chances of a rate hike for December.
Sometimes headlines just do not tell a full story. That was the case with the Dallas Federal Reserve's Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey.
It may be a holiday weekend, but 24/7 Wall St. wanted to give investors, business owners, and consumers insight into what to expect as 2016 ends and 2017 gets closer. The first order of business...