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MetLife US proactive lobbying lesson for Aust

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2014
... that under the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) set up as part of the Frank-Dodd Act that the Federal Reserve Board has designated MetLife alongside leading banks as a Strategically Important Financial Institution (SIFI) requiring extra prudential ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2013
... in the precious metal's price and a rise in the US dollar. The positive mood in US equities came after US Federal Reserve board member James Bullard on Friday suggested the central bank should keep pumping money into the world's largest economy until ...

Fed speaks Fedspeak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
... term Fedspeak (also known as Greenspeak) is what Alan Blinder called "a turgid dialect of English" used by Federal Reserve Board chairmen in making intentionally wordy, vague, and ambiguous statements". Damn, I don't even know what 'turgid' means. Here's ...

Fears Volcker Rule will hit sovereign bond trading

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2012
... several US regulators including the US Department of Treasury's Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Reserve Board and the Securities and Exchange Commission. The legislation is now up for public consultation with the consultation window ...

USA no longer AAA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
... government-sponsored entities under other federal banking agency regulations, including, for example, the Federal Reserve Board's Regulation W, will also be unaffected." Think they forgot to mention in the press release that its central bank can - and ...

AIG Australia insulated from US woes

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2008
... International Group," reported the New York Times this morning. The US Fed has just confirmed the arrangement. "The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday, with the full support of the Treasury Department, authorized the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to ...

Market Jitters Redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2008
... address the current situation as we move to a stronger regulatory structure..." In a separate action, the US Federal Reserve Board of Governors voted unanimously to authorise the New York Fed to lend directly through the discount window to Fannie Mae ...

A tale of two currencies

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2007
... the latest Federal Reserve rate cut can be expected to have a substantial knock on effect at home. Not all Federal Reserve board members wanted yesterday's cut in interest rates or the discount rate, which were both cut by 25 basis points. However data ...

Knee jerk over little Beige Book

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2007
Unlike your average little black book the US Federal Reserve board's Beige Book gets special attention from the markets and can wreak havoc, as was evident in the US overnight. One of eight economic surveys prepared each year for the Federal Open Market ...

Debt climbs, home values fall

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2007
... debt exceeds home equity. Rising house prices have sent consumer debt soaring. However, a report by the Federal Reserve Board's Divisions of Research & Statistics and Monetary Affairs notes, many US families have been saving less and borrowing more against ...