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ThinkstockWith this week’s FOMC meeting being highly watched, it seems that investors have almost no fears of a rate hike — nor any reason to be elated about a rate hike — perhaps until early...
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This week we have the Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting and a gross domestic product (GDP) report due.
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The financial markets will get another look at the Federal Reserve's minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) on Thursday.
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Yellen's take is that inflation is now much more stable than it used to be, and that inflation is currently running at a very low level.
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Jon OggIt turns out that by the Federal Reserve leaving interest rates alone at the zero interest rate policy created just that much more uncertainty. Janet Yellen even issued a third mandate, even...
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ThinkstockAfter news broke that Janet Yellen and the Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee (FOMC) decided to maintain their zero interest rate policy with the fed funds rate remaining at a target...
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ThinkstockThe markets are getting a new look at “just one more” view from the Federal Reserve on the timing of the interest rate hike cycle. Stanley Fischer, Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve,...
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The real fireworks in the Fed chair's semiannual testimony to Congress come from questions and answers rather than from the prepared statements.
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If you think that Greece and China are going to keep the Federal Reserve from starting to raise interest rates later in 2015, you might want to see what Chair Janet Yellen's latest commentary on the...
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ThinkstockJanet Yellen and the Federal Reserve has announced the results of the June 2015 FOMC meeting. Without surprise is that no interest rate hike was announced. Now, the rest of the details is...
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It can be very dangerous for a Federal Reserve president to speak on the last business day ahead of a holiday, when traders and investors already have their foot out the door.
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Jon OggThe market is just going to have to get used to the notion that the interest rate hike cycle is coming. The good news is that the rate hikes are not coming in June, at least that is what the...
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24/7 Wall St. has laid out 10 different reasons why the Federal Reserve is unlikely to hike interest rates too far or too fast.
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Usually when people hear the word storm used, it means that catastrophe has struck. That just isn't always the case when it comes to the financial markets.
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ThinkstockWell, like it or not, the Federal Reserve and Janet Yellen have now formally moved the needle to being closer to rate hikes. As many had expected, the Federal Reserve dropped the terms...
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