Stay informed about the most recent actions of the Federal Reserve Board with the latest episode of Fed Watch with ITR Economics CEO Brian Beaulieu!
Stay informed about the most recent actions of the Federal Reserve Board with the latest episode of Fed Watch with ITR Economics CEO Brian Beaulieu!
My thought is that the factors that supported the trend – a steady march down in the saving rate to zero and a steady march up in household debt, coupled with monetary policy that had room to go from 15% short rates to zero over nearly three decades, are at an end. Even if you be...
watch now VIDEO01:28 Fed hikes rates by another 75 bps The Federal Reserve raised rates by 75 basis points, or 0.75 percentage point, as expected. The increase pushes the fed funds rate to its highest level since January 2008. — Jeff Cox Wed, Nov 2 20221:47 PM EDT Investors...
The increases that started in March — and from a point of near-zero — mark the most aggressive Fed tightening since it started using the overnight funds rate as its principal policy tool in 1990. The only comparison was in 1994, when the Fed hiked a total of 2.25 percentage points; it...
A pause also makes sense because of signs that the economy is cooling; because there are considerable strains in the financial system due to sharp rate hikes; and because the broad money supply is now contracting, Lachman said. The Fed has pushed interest rates to their highest level in 16...
the solid jobs report for June will only feed their idea that other data should be downplayed with regards to quantitative easing. The same, however, is not true for interest rate policy, hence why the Federal Reserve is more committed to a longer period of near zero interest rates than mi...
Since the March policy meeting, a flurry of comments from Fed officials indicated that the urgency for rate hikes is growing, and the central bank is prepared to take more aggressive actions going forward. Powell said in late March that the central bank will, if needed, move "more aggressive...
Economic Watch: U.S. inflation hits fresh four-decade high, cements Fed rate hikes by Xiong Maoling, Gao Pan, Matthew Rusling WASHINGTON, March 10 (Xinhua) -- Newly released data showed that U.S. consumer prices in February continued to rise at the fastest annual pace in four decades, ...
Stay informed about the most recent actions of the Federal Reserve Board with the latest episode of Fed Watch with ITR Economics CEO Brian Beaulieu!