Federal Funds Rate

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Name: Federal Funds Rate

First reported 17 hours ago - Updated 16 mins ago - 9 reports

Gold plummets towards 1,300 threshold

Gold prices took a beating on Thursday, following Fed Chief comments on the future of QE, plummeting 4% to over a 2-year low.WBP OnlineLondon - Gold prices saw losses stretch for a fourth straight session on Thursday after Federal Reserve (Fed) Chairman ... [Published WBP Online - 4 hours ago]

Entities: Gold Price Lower, Exchange Traded Funds, Federal Funds Rate

First reported 18 hours ago - Updated 46 mins ago - 15 reports

Fed Could Start Tapering QE3 By End Of Year

MADISON, Wis., and WASHINGTON (6/20/13)--The Federal Reserve could begin tapering off its bond-purchasing program later this year, said Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke Wednesday after the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting. That set off a flurry of ... [Published CUNA News Now - 46 mins ago]

Entities: Inflation, Mortgage-Backed Securities, Unemployment Rate, Mortgages, Federal Funds Rate

First reported 15 hours ago - Updated 50 mins ago - 2 reports

Wall Street slumps over 1 pct on Fed possible tapering later this year

US stocks plunged on Wednesday, as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke hinted a possible tapering of its quantitative easing later this year after a two- day policy meeting, though the central bank decided to sustain its pace of bond purchases.The Dow ... [Published Big News Network - 8 hours ago]

Entities: Wall Street, Federal Funds Rate, Ben Bernanke, Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500

First reported 4 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 1 reports

Where The Market Is Headed: An Austrian Perspective

There is no question that since the 2008 housing crisis the has received widespread recognition for its ability to identify asset bubbles based on empirical data within a unique theoretical framework. It is true that this recognition brought with it criticism; ... [Published Seeking Alpha - 4 hours ago]

Entities: Federal Funds Rate, Federal Reserve System, Velocity, Market, Capital Markets

First reported 22 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 4 reports

Federal Reserve System

ANALYST: The Bond Market Has Already Priced Tapering, Now The Question Is: How Much More Damage Will There Be?

Yields on U.S. Treasuries have soared since May 3 as bonds have sold off and investors have yanked money out of bond funds, driven by fears that the Federal Reserve would begin to signal tapering back of the bond purchases it makes under its quantitative ... [Published Business Insider Australia - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Federal Reserve System, Ben Bernanke, Maury Harris, Market, yield

First reported 7 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 1 reports

Federal Open Market Committee

Fed leaves Rate Unchanged, Continue Asset Buying

The Federal Open Market Committee decided to keep the federal funds rate unchanged at 0 to 1/4 percent and continue the asset purchase program at $85 billion per month, till the labor market condition improves and inflation rates below 2%. The committee ... [Published India Infoline - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Inflation, Federal Funds Rate, Federal Open Market Committee

First reported 17 hours ago - Updated 16 hours ago - 2 reports

Ben Bernanke

Fed to Keep Rate Near Zero; Bernanke Forecasts Bond-Buying Slowing

Filed under: InvestingIn a statement released today, the Federal Reserve said it will maintain its current securities-buying program, as well as its 0% to 0.25% target range for the federal funds rate, but signaled it's closer to slowing the $85 billion-a-month ... [Published Daily Finance - 16 hours ago]

Entities: Ben Bernanke, Federal Funds Rate, Federal Reserve System, Target Range, Motley Fool

First reported 16 hours ago - Updated 16 hours ago - 1 reports

FOMC members signal possible rate hike

Members of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting in Washington signaled a greater willingness to consider raising the federal funds rate, based on their assessment of appropriate rate targets released Wednesday at the end of a two-day meeting. ... [Published Pensions and Investments Online - 16 hours ago]

Entities: Rate Hike, Federal Funds Rate, Federal Open Market Committee

First reported 17 hours ago - Updated 17 hours ago - 1 reports

Federal Reserve Board And Federal Open Market Committee Release Economic Projections From The June 18-19 FOMC Meeting

Date 19/06/2013The attached table and charts released on Wednesday summarize the economic projections and the target federal funds rate projections made by Federal Reserve Board members and Federal Reserve Bank presidents for the June 18-19 meeting of ... [Published Mondo Visione - 17 hours ago]

Entities: Federal Open Market Committee, Federal Reserve System, Federal Funds Rate

First reported Jun 19 2013 - Updated Jun 19 2013 - 1 reports

Flash: North America outlook - BoTM

FXstreet.com (London) - Derek Halpenny at The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd said the decline in the implied yield of the federal funds rate in March 2015 is unlikely to continue much further. He expect today’s communication from Chairman Bernanke ... [Published FXstreet.com - Jun 19 2013]

Entities: Federal Funds Rate, Derek Halpenny, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd, RMS Queen Elizabeth 2

First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated Jun 19 2013 - 3 reports

Bernanke may have one more Fed revolution left up his sleeve

President Obama all but made it official this week, saying that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has stayed at the Federal Reserve $ Many had already assumed that Bernanke would step down when his term ends in January 2014. But the president’s comments ... [Published Yahoo! Finance - Jun 19 2013]

Entities: Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve System, Federal Funds Rate, Recession, Paul Volker

First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated Jun 18 2013 - 1 reports

VIX and SPX During the 1994 Interest Rate Hike Cycle

41 PM ET, by Bill Luby With yesterday's post in the books, it occurred to me that my reference to the series of interest rate hikes in 1994 probably stretches back before the memory banks of the current generation of investors. So with all the anxiety ... [Published Self Directed Investor - Jun 18 2013]

Entities: Rate Hike, Federal Funds Rate, Federal Reserve System, Discount rate

Quotes

"The decision the Fed has to make on tapering is still a question of timing -- you can't keep buying $85 billion of bonds indefinitely" said Mark Vitner, senior economist for Wells Fargo...

Fed signals that rate hikes remain in distant future [Published Yahoo! Finance - 10 mins ago]

..."Chase offers a number of cards with different rates and benefits," wrote Tacey in an email. "Which is why we encourage customers to choose the card that is best for them."

Rate survey: Credit card interest rates rise to 14.96 percent [Published Yahoo! Finance - 10 mins ago]

...When it decides to begin to remove policy accommodation, it will take "a balanced approach consistent with its longer-run goals of maximum employment and inflation of 2%."

Fed Could Start Tapering QE3 By End Of Year [Published CUNA News Now - 46 mins ago]

"Bernanke was a lot more explicit about the Fed's plans to start tapering QE," Socit Gnrale analyst Robin Bhar told FastMarkets. "It was pretty clear that he thought the economy is looking a lot better."

BULLION MORNING - Bullion falls heavily as Bernanke hints at end of QE, gold under $1,300/oz [Published FXstreet.com - 2 hours ago]

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