Fed mulls policy exit, eyes end of asset purchases
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve has begun detailing how it plans to ease the U.S. economy out of an era of loose monetary policy, indicating it will end its...
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Central banks ending era of clear promises, return to ‘artful’ policy
NEW YORK/TOKYO (Reuters) - The world's major central banks are returning to a more opaque and artful approach to policymaking, ending a crisis-era experiment with explicit promises that they found...
U.S. Fed seen sticking to range when hiking interest rates
By Jonathan Spicer and Richard Leong NEW YORK (Reuters) - Don't count on the U.S. Federal Reserve to go back to a numerical bulls-eye to aim at when it finally...
Fed’s Kocherlakota floats overshooting U.S. inflation in future
MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - U.S. inflation may not climb back to 2 percent until 2018, so the Federal Reserve should consider overshooting that target for a few years afterward to make...
At big-ticket dinners, a blunt Bernanke sounds theme of low rates
NEW YORK/BOSTON (Reuters) - In a series of quarter-million-dollar dinners with wealthy private investors, Ben Bernanke has been clearer than he ever was as chairman of the Federal Reserve on...
Fed could ditch flawed ‘dots’ rates forecasts: Fisher
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - There are flaws in the published forecasts of individual Federal Reserve policymakers and the U.S. central bank should consider ditching them altogether, a top Fed policymaker...
Could take 5-8 years to shrink Fed portfolio: Yellen
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve is in no rush to decide the appropriate size of its balance sheet, but if it ultimately shrinks it to a pre-crisis...
Stein sees ‘bumps’ in markets as Fed gets less precise on policy plan
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve should expect more "bumps in the road" as financial markets react to increasingly less precise communications from the U.S. central bank, a top...
Progress on TPP deal with U.S. but a gap remains: Japan official
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Japan and the United States have made progress on a two-way trade deal but a gap remains and effort is needed to come to a final...
Exclusive: White House considers former banking lawyer for Fed board – sources
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A former lawyer with the American Bankers Association is being considered by the White House as a possible nominee to the board of the Federal Reserve,...