Since the Federal Open Market Committee is not going to be raising rates at its April 27-28 meeting next week, the only real question is whether the Committee will use

China’s Finance Minister Lou Jiwei and People’s Bank of China Governor Zhou Xiaochuan met their US counterparts, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew and Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, in Washington DC

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen was unmistakably more upbeat on the US economic outlook in her remarks last Thursday than she was in her very dovish speech at the Economic

When Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen was asked in the Q&A session after her speech last Wednesday at the Economic Club of New York whether there was a change in

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen’s luncheon speech before the Economic Club of New York earlier today was by most accounts as dovish as they come, and if anything else, it

In recent years Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen has tended to give a major, one wants to say seminal, policy speech each spring and fall, methodically laying out the key

For all the debate over the merits of the blue dot rate plots, all the policy messaging to be taken from today’s Federal Open Market Committee meeting was loaded into

With the Federal Open Market Committee members about to settle in around the table to begin their two day March meeting, a few points about the likely outcome tomorrow afternoon.

There is little for the Federal Reserve not to like in this morning’s stellar Non-Farm Payrolls numbers: a continuing surge in job creation, with 242,000 jobs added — even the

Federal Reserve Bank of New York President Bill Dudley’s speech in Beijing the other day all but put the kibosh on a Federal Open Market Committee rate increase at its

A number of Federal Reserve officials are speaking through this week beginning with Vice Chair Stan Fischer later tonight in Houston. Bracketed as they are between last Friday’s surprisingly strong

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen endured today what was easily the most brutal bi-annual Humphrey Hawkins testimony yet on Capitol Hill. The three hours before the House Financial Services Committee

A quick note on what we believe would be the Federal Reserve’s most likely takeaways from this morning’s surprisingly strong Non-Farm Payroll numbers, despite a downside miss on expectations for

It should have been no surprise to anyone looking at a Bloomberg screen this week that various Federal Reserve officials were adopting a more dovish tone in their remarks these

This afternoon’s Federal Open Market Committee statement read to us to be about as neutral and as carefully crafted as it could possibly be. The FOMC wordsmiths seem to have

With no rate hike looming in the Federal Open Market Committee’s statement this Wednesday, attention is largely focused on whether the FOMC will offer any confirmation of the market anxieties

This morning’s Non-Farm Payroll was almost too good in bolstering the case for the base case rate path being mapped out by Federal Reserve officials since their December meeting decision

This afternoon’s release of the Minutes to the Federal Open Market Committee’s December meeting will no doubt be closely scrutinized mostly for what they may indicate on the likely pace

First things first, the Federal Open Market Committee’s policy statement was well crafted in its balance, even polished, with something for everyone and impressive in being a unanimous decision. And

This has to be the most talked about, written about, and telegraphed rate hike in the history of central banks, and so already feeling a bit exhausted by the anticipation,