ice Index report]]>Tim Paradis
The intuition behind this point really is pretty simple. When the economy is struggling along—when consumer spending is muted and businesses’ taste for acquiring investment goods is restrained—the demand for loans sags. All else equal, interest rates fall. In the current environment, of course,...
the minutes said “various participants” were willing to raise rates if inflation worsens. That complicated the rekindled hopes on Wall Street that the Fed will be able to cut its main interest rate at least once this year.
Incoming data continue to support expectations that the Federal Reserve will hold rates at rock bottom levels for the foreseeable future - likely into 2011. But interest rates should not be the focus of policy analysts. The Fed will manipulate policy via
WSJ Prime Rate888.5 What it means:The initials stand for The Wall Street Journal, which surveys large banks and publishes the consensus prime rate. The Journal surveys the 30 largest banks, and when three-quarters of them (23) change, the Journal changes its rate, effective on the day the...
U.S. stocks finished mixed after the head of the Federal Reserve said the cuts to interest rates that Wall Street craves so much are still likely, even if they’re delayed because of stubbornly high inflation
NEW YORK, New York - U.S. investors fretted Tuesday while the U.S. central bank deliberated on whether to hike interest rates another time. The decision will not be known until the Federal Reserve's regular two-day monthly meeting wraps up on Wednesday. ...
1月22日，WallStreetBets（华尔街赌场）股票社区集结了大量散户，他们要发起一场针对做空机构的报复行动。
stronger economy. I would argue that the the Fed’s earlier moves in this recession (QE1, QE2 and Operation Twist) make this point for me. Interest rates have stayed low, with mortgage rates and corporate bond rates at historical lows, but they have done so, because the economy has ...