Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve
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The Federal Reserve released its large bank requirements for 2023 based on the results from this year's stress test. Most of the banks tested will need to maintain or increase their tier one capital holdings.
August 5 -
Markets expect the surge in consumer prices will soon peak and central banks will become less hawkish, but there’s a high risk that global cost pressures will remain elevated.
August 2 -
Fed Chairman Jerome Powell brushed off concerns that rapidly tightening monetary policy could disrupt the financial system. Some economists and policy experts beg to differ, raising concerns about loan defaults or even the collapse of a key institution or counterparty.
July 29 -
The yield on the two-year Treasury moved to be as much as 32 basis points higher than the 10-year yield, which slid in the wake of the Fed’s announcement that it was raising its overnight benchmark by 75 basis points.
July 27 -
Following their largest drop in over a decade one week ago, averages rapidly swung upward as recession talk receded.
July 14 -
The evidence of the Fed’s loss of control has multiplied uncomfortably in recent weeks. For its sake and that of both the domestic and global economy, the central bank desperately needs to regain control of the inflation narrative.
June 15 -
Corrigan thrived on crisis situations, a colleague said. He received plenty of practice in 25 years at the Fed and another two decades at Goldman Sachs.
May 19 -
The Senate voted 80-19 Thursday to confirm Powell to the top spot on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. He joins Philip Jefferson, who was confirmed by the Senate to serve on the board Wednesday night, and Lisa Cook, who was confirmed Tuesday night.
May 12 -
Anticipation of the Federal Reserve’s balance-sheet reduction is weighing on bonds backed by mortgages, but the actual event may make them an attractive alternative to corporate debt.
April 21 -
U.S. central bankers should move expeditiously and raise interest rates to neutral — the level which neither speeds up or slows down the economy — by the end of the year, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President Mary Daly said.
April 20 -
The Federal Reserve’s most hawkish official cracked open the door to discussing the first 75-basis-point interest rate hike since 1994, a move economists say would be a last resort in case inflation further spirals out of control.
April 19 -
U.S. consumers expect mortgage rates to increase substantially over the next several years, with households on average projecting rates of 6.7% a year from now and 8.2% in three years, according to a survey released by the New York Federal Reserve.
April 18 -
The White House says the president will nominate Michael Barr, a Treasury Department veteran and one of the architects of the Dodd-Frank Act, as the central bank's vice chair for supervision.
April 15 -
An overly aggressive path of hikes to combat the spiraling cost of living may backfire. Bringing inflation down to 2% could push unemployment to nearly 10%.
April 14 -
The Federal Reserve may need to raise interest rates “significantly” higher than it currently expects to cool an overheated U.S. economy, Goldman Sachs Chief Economist Jan Hatzius said.
April 8 -
Esther George, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, says changes in the office sector and monetary policy pose potential risks to property owners and their lenders.
March 30 -
Home prices have increased at their fastest rate since the mid-2000s housing boom and driven skyrocketing inflation. Fed Gov. Christopher Waller says lenders are better prepared for a shock than in 2007 but still need to be monitored — especially nonbank lenders.
March 25 -
During his March Federal Open Market Committee meeting press conference, acting Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the Fed's supervision and regulatory panel was no longer active and key decisions about stress tests and bank mergers were being handled by the full board.
March 16 -
The West Virginia Democrat released a statement Monday saying that Sarah Bloom Raskin, President Biden's nominee to serve as the Federal Reserve's top regulator, "failed to satisfactorily address my concerns" and that he would not support her. Manchin's "no" vote puts her confirmation very much in doubt.
March 14 -
Senate Democrats insist the GOP's boycott of President Biden's picks for the Federal Reserve is interfering with the central bank's handling of an economic crisis. But GOP lawmakers say the Fed is functioning fine and their concerns about nominee Sarah Bloom Raskin are material.
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