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Fed Chair Powell reveals new inflation target
Powell reiterated the Fed's commitment to a 2% inflation target, calling anchored inflation expectations "critical to ...
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A Guide to the Fed: Whose Words Carry the Most Weight
For close watchers of the Federal Reserve, trying to make sense of the flood of speeches, interviews, and other remarks emerging from the central bank in any given week can feel akin to a game of ...
How St. Louis got to be a big player in nation’s economy. Fed marks 100 years at HQ
The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, which marks its centennial at its current headquarters, continues to play a large role ...
Wall Street Journal5d
It's Not Just the Fed. This Week Is a Central-Bank Bonanza
Like the European Central Bank and some others, it started easing ahead of the Fed, cutting in August for the first time in four years. The South African Reserve Bank became the first central bank ...
New York Post18d
Fed boss Jerome Powell plans to cut central bank staff by 10% in nod to Elon Musk’s DOGE
The Federal Reserve plans to shrink its workforce by about 10% over the coming years, bringing the central bank in line with President ... downsize and reshape the US government via billionaire ...
Investing20d
Fed’s Powell suggests central bank needs to review policy framework
The Fed adopted its current approach to monetary policy in 2020, when the U.S. was still in the midst of the pandemic. At the time, the central bank pledged to allow for lower unemployment rates ...
AOL20d
Fed's Powell says US may be entering period of more frequent and persistent 'supply shocks'
Federal Reserve ... that the US may be entering a period of more frequent supply shocks and volatile inflation, warranting more transparent communication practices from the central bank.
The Washington Post20d
U.S. preparing to relax big-bank capital rules
The new staff is also expected to bring expertise that some Fed watchers believe has been lacking inside the central bank. The new staffers are Francisco Covas of the Bank Policy Institute ...
Business Insider20d
Why a former Fed chief says the China trade deal creates more problems for Powell and the central bank
The Fed risks being behind the curve when ... Investors are celebrating easing trade tensions between the US and China this week, but one former central banker warns that it could derail monetary ...
Bloomberg L.P.21d
US Treasuries Gain as Traders Eye Inflation for Clues on Fed
With market-implied expectations for Federal Reserve interest-rate cuts receding and a multi-trillion-dollar tax package seen likely to worsen the US government budget deficit, focus is now on ...
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel21d
Wall Street wobbles ahead of new retail sales data and public appearances by Fed officials
Wall Street bounced between small gains and losses in meek trading early Wednesday ahead of the new retail sales numbers this week and any hints from Federal Reserve ... U.S. central bank's ...
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How federal spending cuts to SNAP could impact San Antonio Food Bank
“For every one meal (SA Food Bank) distributes, SNAP distributes nine,” CEO Eric Cooper said. “So this 10% cut to SNAP roughly will cause us to have to double if we were to fill that ga ...