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Fed to ban policymakers stock, bond trading

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2021
The Federal Reserve is restricting the investing activities of policymakers and senior staff, including banning them from holding or trading individual stocks and bonds. Following a review and recent scandal, the Federal Reserve has moved to prohibit ...

Desperately seeking workers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2017
... rate hikes this year (after the first rate hike for 2017 announced last month). The latest report also gives meat to Boston Fed president Eric Rosengren's comment that "the process [of shrinking the balance sheet] could begin relatively soon" and not ...

The twenty-first night of September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2016
... of course, is lifting the US fed funds rate (sending the US dollar higher), should the FOMC adopt dove-turned-hawk Boston Fed president Eric Rosengren's advice that "A failure to continue on the path of gradual removal of accommodation could shorten ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2012
... Europe's stock markets advanced for the third day running on upbeat corporate results and a call by the head of the Boston Fed for the US Federal Reserve to launch an open-ended bond-buying program. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index of top companies ...

Same time last year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2011
... Lockhart that even with "unacceptable levels of unemployment," the Fed may need to raise interest rates and that of Boston Fed's Eric Rosengren's that it wouldn't be "appropriate" to have rates close to zero. I, me and Irene know what happened after ...

QE2 or bust

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
... bona fide liquidity trap" so "in my opinion, much more policy accommodation is appropriate today." Then there's also Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren, "Insuring against the risk of deflation may be much cheaper than waiting until it has occurred and ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2006
... data', the latest Fed's Beige Book of economic conditions - a regional survey of the 12 district banks conducted by the Boston Fed - indicated a tightening job market. The survey showed moderate economic growth with some slowing emerging in the residential ...
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