Tag: Federal Reserve

May 13, 2022

Stocks are off to a rough start in 2022. Investors are primarily concerned about inflationary pressures and how they might affect the economy. The most recent Consumer Price Index (CPI) for April put inflation at 8.3%. While this is below […]

May 12, 2022

With Wednesday’s confirmation, Jefferson begins a term at the central bank that runs until 2036 and becomes the fourth Black man to serve on the Fed board. “Dr. Jefferson is one of the country’s leading thinkers on the economics of […]

May 9, 2022

In January of this year, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System issued a research and analysis paper titled Money and Payments: The US Dollar in the Age of Digital Transformation, in which the Fed explores potential benefits […]

April 27, 2022

The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Federal Reserve Gov. Lael Brainard, by a 52-43 vote, to serve as the central bank’s vice chair. Then the drama unfolded. Democrats had initially planned to push ahead with a vote on fellow Fed nominee […]

April 25, 2022

Republican senators raised the issue of transparency and ethics with regard to master account approval at the Fed during the nomination process for Sarah Bloom Raskin, a former candidate to serve as the central bank’s vice chair for supervision. Sen. […]

April 8, 2022

Indexes extended their losses on Thursday as markets digested the latest Fed minutes, where Federal Reserve officials “generally agreed” to cut up to $95 billion a month from the central bank’s balance sheet to combat surging prices. In light of […]

April 8, 2022

The US dollar continues to appreciate across the board with the greenback’s strength sending many US dollar pairs to near multi-month and multi-year highs. USD/JPY is within a point of levels last seen in August 2015, GBP/USD continues to test […]

February 11, 2022

New rules the Federal Reserve issued in October to clamp down on stock trading by board governors, regional presidents and senior staff seemed like a neat little bow to resolve a then-burgeoning scandal that, less than a month earlier, played […]

January 25, 2022

In this edition of Central Bank Watch, we’ll review comments and speeches made by various Federal Reserve policymakers in the week ahead the communications blackout window around the January Fed meeting ended. The blackout started on Saturday, January 15, leaving […]

December 10, 2021

In the past five trading days, major banks were in focus on the expectations of the Federal Reserve turning more hawkish. In company-specific developments, Citigroup C was in the limelight for pausing its share repurchases in the current quarter. Also, […]