Jerome Powell
The Federal Reserve Just Pledged Asset Purchases With No Limit To Support Markets
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The Federal Reserve launched a barrage of programs aimed at helping markets function more efficiently amid the coronavir... Read more
Trump Says GDP Would Be Near 4% And The Dow Could Be 10,000 Points Higher If It Weren't For The Fed
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The president has repeatedly taken the Fed and Chair Jerome Powell to task for aggressively raising rates. Read more
Fed Could Use Negative Rates If US Recession Strikes, Goldman Sachs Chief Economist Predicts
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The Federal Reserve could announce negative rates in the future, despite its current doubts about this unconventional me... Read more
US Productivity Was Weak In The Third Quarter, While Labor Costs Were Revised Lower
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U.S. productivity for the third quarter was expected to slip by 0.1%, after dropping 0.3% in the previous quarter. Read more
US Productivity Was Weak In The Third Quarter, While Labor Costs Were Revised Lower
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U.S. productivity for the third quarter was expected to slip by 0.1%, after dropping 0.3% in the previous quarter. Read more
Biden Says Trump's Pressure On The Federal Reserve Is An Abuse Of Power
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"It's his way of abusing power across the board. It's a big mistake," Biden says of Trump's attacks on the Fed. Read more
Larry Summers: US Economy Is Just One Bad Recession Away From Zero Rates Or Worse
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"I fear that's what we're headed into" here in America, warns the former Treasury secretary. Read more
Markets Have Been Betting That Trump's Twitter Attacks On The Fed Will Move Rates
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Trump has called Chairman Jerome Powell "clueless" and Fed officials "boneheads." Read more
Powell Says It's Possible The Fed Will Have To Resume Balance Sheet Growth
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Powell said on Wednesday that the Fed may have to resume regular balance sheet growth to help ease money markets. Read more
Powell Says A 'sequence' Of Rate Cuts Could Be Needed If Economy Turns, But Doesn't See That Now
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Jerome Powell pledged that the central bank would engage in a "sequence" of interest rate cuts if conditions warrant, bu... Read more
Trump Says Powell And The Fed 'Fail Again' — 'No Guts, No Sense, No Vision!'
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The decision to cut rates followed a monthslong pressure campaign by Trump, who often criticized Chairman Jerome Powell ... Read more
Fed Rate Cut Is Coming, But Some Market Insiders Doubt It's Really Necessary
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A Federal Reserve rate cut at the end of this week's two-day FOMC meeting is considered a "lock" by the market, but chie... Read more
The Fed Is Likely To Lower Rates Again This Week, But Also Signal It's In No Hurry To Keep Cutting
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Traders in the fed funds futures market are pricing in a 34% chance that the Fed will stay put on rates. Read more
Cramer To Fed's Powell: Just Admit You Were Wrong To Hike Rates So Aggressively And Move On
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"The Fed chair should be bullied by the bond market. And the bond market is saying, 'Whoa, are you wrong,'" says CNBC's ... Read more
White House Trade Advisor Navarro: 'Technically We Did Not Have A Yield Curve Inversion'
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The yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell below the 2-year rate Wednesday, which typically taken as a sign a recession... Read more
Fed's Bullard Says Only A 'sustained' Bond Inversion Would Be A Bearish Signal
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The inversion of portions of the Treasury bond yield curve this week "would have to be sustained over a period of time" ... Read more
Are Central Banks At A Crossroads Or A Dead-end?
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Central banks are at a crossroads, and if they carry on, maybe a dead end. The good news, though, is twofold. Read more
Trump, Navarro Are The Only Officials In The White House Blaming The Fed For Volatility, Sources Say
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The president has criticized his central bank chief sharply, but stepped it up in recent days when he labeled the Fed le... Read more
Fed's Rate Cutting Helps Provide Cover For Trump To Wage The Trade War
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The president's move to intensify the trade dispute with China comes with an important backstop. Read more
Kamala Harris Argues Trump's 'trade Tax' Pushed The Fed To Cut Interest Rates
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In the second Democratic presidential debate in Detroit, Kamala Harris argues that Trump failed to follow through on pro... Read more