Trend Results : "Monetary Policy"

Monetary policy is not interest rate policy - Japanese version

Suppose I announced I would be buying an asset, both now and in future. And suppose people believed my announcement. It would be paradoxical if my announcement caused the price of that asset to fall. It would be even more...

Dow Burdened by Uncertainty and Low-Powered Tech

Without much new economic news today, the uncertainty over the FOMC's plan for the continuation of its monetary policy is still wreaking havoc on the Dow Jones Industrial Average this morning. Down 55 points as of 11 a.m. EDT, the index...Show More Summary

Dow Burdened by Uncertainty and Low-Powered Tech

With monetary policy changes up in the air, the index is struggling to maintain forward momentum. And tech stocks aren't helping one bit.

Bizarro Time As Better Data Sends Stocks Lower

As the accelerating global currency wars, global money printing and abdication of fiscal policy on behalf of monetary policy becomes a worldwide pandemic, increasingly more markets are now trading like pennystocks, case in the pointShow More Summary

Fed’s Bullard wants inflation pickup before tapering QE

LONDON (Reuters) - A top Federal Reserve official said on Friday U.S. inflation would have to pick up before he voted to scale back monetary policy stimulus and that this was unlikely to happen in the coming month.

It Takes a Regime Shift: Japanese Monetary Policy Through the Lens of the Great Depression

Energy And Metals Move In Opposite Directions

By Dean Popplewell: Capital markets are currently facing the perfect storm for risky assets, with negative signals coming from both monetary policy and macro fundamentals. Disappointing overnight data from the world's second largest economy is again pressurizing West Texas Intermediate oil prices in New York trading. Show More Summary

Bernanke's Testimony Reinforces The Status Quo

By AlphaVN Research: The monetary policy debate continued on Capitol Hill Wednesday as Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke gave his bi-annual speech to Congress. Bernanke continues to wait for U.S. employment to return to trend, using many of the tools in his arsenal. Show More Summary

Bullard: Monetary Policy Options in a Low Policy Rate Environment

IMF notes progress in UK’s fiscal situation

Britain should stay focused on policies to foster economic growth and keep monetary policy loose, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in a report yesterday, as it acknowledged some improvement in the country’s economic and fiscal situation. Show More Summary

Bernanke: Fed Stimulus Still Needed

Federal Reserve chairman Ben S. Bernanke, said in prepared remarks to Congress that a premature tightening of monetary policy "would carry a substantial risk of slowing or ending the economic recovery." At its most recent meeting this...Show More Summary

Bernanke urges Congress to get smarter on economic policy

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke spoke to the Joint Economic Committee this morning, and as expected, much of the attention was on his expectations with regard to monetary policy. The Fed will, Bernanke explained, pull back from its quantitative easing, but not before the e …

Bernanke Signaling The Fed's Power To Control The Economy Is Waning

By Larry Trefz: This morning, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke sat before lawmakers giving testimony in regards to current and future monetary policy. The chairman's tone was reminiscent of a very polite host making an announcement to his frolicking and inebriated guests that the party would indeed be drawing to a close in due course. Show More Summary

Praet says ECB can expand its tools to fight crisis

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The European Central Bank could expand its monetary policy toolkit if needed to respond to threats to price stability, and must ensure the euro zone economy does not enter a downward spiral, ECB Executive Board member Peter Praet...

HERE COMES FOMC MINUTES ...

Heads up! The Federal Reserve will release the minutes from the FOMC's April 30-May 1 monetary policy meeting in just a few moments at 2 PM ET. The hot topic everyone wants to know about is when the Fed is considering tapering back the bond purchases it is making under its open-ended quantitative easing program. Show More Summary

Gold's Sell-Off A Bad Omen For Equity Markets

By CFA Institute Contributors: By Filip Mardjokic, CFA In January, I published my outlook for 2013, which argued for continued long positions in risk assets supported not by fundamentals but by lax monetary policy. As of the end of last week, we’ve ridden the ticker tape higher by +17.9% for the S&P 500 Index and high-yield trading below 5%. Show More Summary

Is Congress the ‘enabler’ of a loose Fed?

The fiscal drag from Congress is forcing the Fed to continue easing monetary policy to boost growth.

Pfizer Inc. (PFE), Microsoft Corporation (MSFT), DryShips Inc. (DRYS): Need a Triple-Digit Dow (.DJI) Pop? Just Let Big Ben Speak

Throughout this month, investors have focused largely on the possibility that the Federal Reserve would start to ease off the throttle in providing accommodative monetary policy to boost the economy. Yet even though some members of the Federal Open Market Committee have expressed their views about the desirability of getting the U.S. economy back on [...]

Need a Triple-Digit Dow Pop? Just Let Big Ben Speak

Throughout this month, investors have focused largely on the possibility that the Federal Reserve would start to ease off the throttle in providing accommodative monetary policy to boost the economy. Yet even though some members of the Federal Open Market Committee have expressed their views about the desirability of getting the U.S. Show More Summary

Fed's Bernanke: No rate hike soon

The U.S. economy is on stronger footing than a year ago, but Ben Bernanke wants to be careful not to squelch the recovery now. "A premature tightening of monetary policy could lead interest rates to rise temporarily, but would also carry a substantial risk of slowing or ending the economic recovery and causing inflation to […]