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Fed should not raise rates to fight financial risk: Evans

August 24, 2021 at 4:36 p.m.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve should be "extraordinarily careful" about hiking interest rates to head off potential risks to financial stability when more effective tools, like supervision, are available,...

Fed won’t ‘slam on brakes’ when time comes to end QE3: Williams

August 24, 2021 at 4:14 p.m.

BOISE, Idaho (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve will reduce its massive bond-buying program gradually as the economy continues to improve, following no fixed schedule but responding to progress on...

Fed’s Williams says ‘personally’ wasn’t far from willing to taper in September

August 24, 2021 at 4:12 p.m.

BOISE, Idaho (Reuters) - The head of the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank said on Thursday that the decision not to reduce the Federal Reserve's massive bond-buying program in September...

Yellen brings dovish bent, communications skill to Fed table

August 24, 2021 at 4:16 p.m.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Janet Yellen, President Barack Obama's pick to lead the Federal Reserve, combines a solid reputation as an economist with a keen interest in communication - fitting...

Odd couple: U.S. Fed’s Yellen gets respect, kisses from policy foe

August 24, 2021 at 4:08 p.m.

BERKELEY, California (Reuters) - They are a bit of an odd couple: the former money manager who has fought for years against the U.S. Federal Reserve's ultra-easy monetary policies, and...

Fed’s Rosengren: trimming bond-buying would be ‘premature’

August 24, 2021 at 3:56 p.m.

(Reuters) - Slow growth and a weak jobs market mean the U.S. economy will continue to need support from accommodative monetary policy for years to come, a top U.S. central...

Fed’s Kocherlakota urges more stimulus, not necessarily more QE

August 24, 2021 at 3:43 p.m.

HOUGHTON, Michigan (Reuters) - Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank President Narayana Kocherlakota, one of the most dovish policymakers at the U.S. central bank, on Thursday made his most impassioned plea for...

Yellen’s star rises in gambling public’s Fed chair bets

August 24, 2021 at 3:21 p.m.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Vice Chair Janet Yellen surged to the top of the betting boards as the most likely pick to succeed Ben Bernanke as chairman of...

Analysis: In choice of next Fed chair, a focus on regulatory views

August 24, 2021 at 2:19 p.m.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - As President Barack Obama weighs whom to nominate to succeed Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, he will look well beyond their stance on monetary policy, the...

Summers the odds-on favorite in bets for Fed chair; Yellen lags

August 24, 2021 at 2:11 p.m.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers has the inside track in the race to succeed Ben Bernanke as chairman of the Federal Reserve, betting at a...

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