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Fed, in shift, may move to faster pace of rate hikes

EghtesadOnline: The Federal Reserve , which has struggled to stoke inflation since the financial crisis and up until now raised rates less frequently than it and markets expected, may be about to hit the accelerator on rate hikes.
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Publish Date:14/March/2017 | 06:24

Trump economic adviser: Fed doing 'good job,' respects independence

EghtesadOnline: White House economic adviser Gary Cohn said on Sunday that the Federal Reserve "has been doing a good job" and the Trump administration respects its independence, even if the U.S. central bank raises interest rates this week.
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Publish Date:12/March/2017 | 15:20

Fed to make sequential hikes until 'something breaks': Gundlach

EghtesadOnline: Jeffrey Gundlach, chief executive officer at DoubleLine Capital, said on Tuesday he expects the Federal Reserve to begin a campaign this month of "old school" sequential interest rate hikes until "something breaks," such as a U.S. recession.
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Publish Date:08/March/2017 | 06:08

Fed's Powell warns of digital currency's risks

EghtesadOnline: A top U.S. Federal Reserve official on Friday raised caution about central banks issuing digital currencies as they are vulnerable to cyber attacks and criminal activities along with privacy issues that still need to be addressed.
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Publish Date:04/March/2017 | 05:34

Dollar rises, underpinned by higher Treasury yields

EghtesadOnline: The dollar gained on Tuesday, taking its cue from higher U.S. Treasury yields as investors awaited minutes from the Federal Reserve 's latest meeting for signals to the pace of interest rate hikes.
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Publish Date:21/February/2017 | 05:36

Scoring the Fed's Decision: Will It Be Wise to Tighten in March?

EghtesadOnline: Now that the outcome of the Federal Reserve ’s next meeting has become far less certain, Bloomberg has provided a rundown of what would have to happen for Janet Yellen and company to raise rates on March 15:
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Publish Date:16/February/2017 | 20:16

Apple, banks push Wall Street to all-time high

EghtesadOnline: Major U.S. stock indexes established record highs on Tuesday, led by bank stocks after Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said it would be unwise to wait too long to raise interest rates.
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Publish Date:15/February/2017 | 05:26

Fed has limited view on Trump economic policies as Yellen heads to Congress

EghtesadOnline: Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen goes to Congress on Tuesday for the first time since Republicans took control of the White House and both houses of the legislature with less clarity on the direction of U.S. economic policy than at any time of her three-year tenure.
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Publish Date:14/February/2017 | 08:40

Forget ‘Fake News.’ For Markets, It’s Never Been More Real

EghtesadOnline: Buy the news and sell the soft data. That’s the conclusion drawn from a paper by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, which suggests that financial news holds predictive power when it comes to a slew of economic data.
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Publish Date:13/February/2017 | 05:42

Wall Street stands with two Fed-hike outlook for 2017: Reuters poll

EghtesadOnline: Wall Street's top banks expect just two rate hikes from the Federal Reserve this year and see only modest risk to the U.S. central bank being pressed into a more aggressive pace of monetary policy tightening, a Reuters poll showed on Friday.
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Publish Date:04/February/2017 | 13:44

Fed to stop mortgage reinvestments in 2018: Morgan Stanley

EghtesadOnline: The U.S. Federal Reserve will stop reinvestments of its mortgage-backed securities holdings in April 2018 in an attempt to shrink its $4.2 trillion balance sheet that had ballooned from bond purchases to combat the last recession, Morgan Stanley analysts said on Friday.
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Publish Date:28/January/2017 | 04:51

New policies coming to America could take weight off Fed: Powell

EghtesadOnline: A push by Washington for more business-friendly regulation and fiscal support for the economy could improve America's mix of policies which in recent years have relied too much on the Federal Reserve , Fed Governor Jerome Powell said.
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Publish Date:08/January/2017 | 04:47

In sign of more hawkish Fed, Evans nods to three rate hikes

EghtesadOnline: Chicago Federal Reserve President Charles Evans said on Friday the central bank could raise interest rates three times this year, faster than he had expected just a few months ago and in line with the majority of his colleagues.
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Publish Date:07/January/2017 | 15:21

U.S. job growth slows, but wages rebound strongly

EghtesadOnline: U.S. employment increased less than expected in December but a rebound in wages pointed to sustained labor market momentum that sets up the economy for stronger growth and further interest rate increases from the Federal Reserve this year.
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Publish Date:07/January/2017 | 05:37