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Janet Yellen made a bit of a surprise on Wednesday in her FOMC statement and then again in her press conference. The 6.5% unemployment rate threshold has been lightly removed, in part due to the...
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courtesy of the Federal ReserveThe Federal Reserve under Janet Yellen may not be that much different than the Fed under Ben Bernanke – not yet at any rate. In her first formal two-day FOMC meeting...
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ThinkstockThe Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee has another meeting this week regarding U.S. interest rate policy. While no new rate announcement is expected to come, what is expected...
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ThinkstockThe Federal Reserve is under a new chairman, and the new policy is still one that will come with ongoing bond purchase tapering. Still, the Fed’s balance sheet keeps growing and is moving...
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Jon OggThe latest minutes from the FOMC’s January meeting are showing a broader support to cut the bond buying, or to continue on the tapering as we have been growing more accustomed to each month....
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courtesy of the Federal ReserveTuesday will mark the first ever testimony to Congress by new Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen. One of the first things Yellen will address is the important...
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ThinkstockGoldman Sachs and other investment firms warned that the market was getting more and more at risk of a 10% stock market correction, with the caveat that stocks would resume the bull market...
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courtesy of the Federal ReserveThe January 29 FOMC meeting was the last meeting to be under Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke. Janet Yellen will be the new Federal Reserve Chairman going forward. The markets...
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ThinkstockThe Federal Reserve is out with its minutes from the December FOMC meeting. We generally warn readers that minutes are often the third look at a Fed meeting, but this pertains to the FOMC...
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The ADP Payrolls report is not always an exact indication of the Labor Situation report on payrolls from the U.S. Labor Department each month, but investors, traders and speculators do generally use...
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