Tag: central bank

June 18, 2018

Stock-market investors navigated, virtually unscathed, a gauntlet of central-bank gatherings, a historic summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean Kim Jong Un, and flaring trade tensions. The S&P 500 index SPX, -0.10% ended the week essentially flat, managing the […]

June 13, 2018

Investors would have to be stupid to ignore the Federal Reserve’s history of causing pain. But that is exactly what momentum investors are doing now. History repeats itself, but human nature being what it is, many investors do not learn. […]

June 12, 2018

U.S. stock futures saw muted action on Tuesday as investors shifted from a historic summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump in Singapore to the start of a series of important central-bank meetings kicking off […]

May 24, 2018

The Federal Reserve needs to raise interest rates about four more times before it reaches an equilibrium level, Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan said Thursday. Speaking a day after the central bank released minutes from its May meeting, Kaplan said […]

April 12, 2018

U.S. stocks rose on Thursday, in the latest example of both heavy day-to-day volatility and market movements being directed by the latest headlines and tweets coming from the White House. Geopolitical issues remained at the forefront for Wall Street, although […]

March 6, 2018

Raising interest rates now gives the U.S. the best chance to keep pushing the economy forward, Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan said Tuesday. In that light, Kaplan said he favors three rate hikes this year, a sentiment reflected in markets […]

October 2, 2017

Kevin Warsh, the favorite to be the next chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, apparently believes the central bank has become a servant to the stock market after years of loose monetary policy. Uber-bear Albert Edwards, an economist at Societe […]

September 6, 2017

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January 21, 2016

China’s central bank wants to launch its own digital currencies to cut the costs of circulating traditional paper money and boost policymakers’ control of money supply, the People’s Bank of China said on Wednesday. A PBOC research team set up […]