Friday, November 20th, 2009

Posts Tagged ‘ Federal Funds Rate ’

Unorthodox Exit Plan – what the Fed has up its sleeves

Nov 19th, 2009 | By Don Miller | Category: Featured, Financial News

“In the old days … the Fed controlled the federal funds rate with open market operations,” Antulio Bomfim, a former Fed economist now with Macroeconomic Advisors LLC in Washington told Reuters. “Now, at least in this period when reserves are over-abundant, the way the Fed hopes to raise the federal funds rate will be primarily by raising the interest rate it pays on reserves.”



Investment News Briefs Thursday, June 25, 2009

Jun 25th, 2009 | By Money Morning Staff | Category: Financial News

Fed Holds Funds Rate; Buffett: U.S. May Need More Stimulus; Jobs’ Liver Transplant Confirmed; Fewer Americans Traveling on 4th Despite Lower Gas Prices; Monsanto Profits Drop 14%; SEC Proposes New Rules for Money Market Funds; Recession Yields Fewer Millionaires



Crustaceans, Currencies, and Conversation in Delray Beach

Jun 19th, 2009 | By Jon Herring | Category: Stock Market Investing


Obama’s Stimulus Plan: When is There ‘Too Much’ Stimulus?

Jan 9th, 2009 | By Martin Hutchinson | Category: Financial News, Politics & Economics

The Congressional Budget Office’s announcement Wednesday that 2009’s budget deficit was going to be $1.19 trillion – before a nickel of President-elect Barack Obama’s stimulus plan has been included – raises a crucial question for the U.S. economy: Is there too much stimulus, and what effect would too much stimulus have?



We Are All Japanese Now

Dec 18th, 2008 | By Bill Bonner | Category: Financial News

The Fed goes for broke – and the rest of the country follows…there are really only two ways out of this mess… Instead of inflation, we’re getting deflation…Gideon Gono can show the Fed how to use these ‘new tools’… Some sage advice for Obama…the SEC does not fight fraud, it aids and abets it…and more!



Fed Policymakers to Cut Rates Today … But Does Anyone Really Care?

Dec 16th, 2008 | By Don Miller | Category: Financial News

With the economy in a tailspin, the U.S. Federal Reserve policymakers will today (Tuesday) almost certainly cut the benchmark Federal Funds rate from its current 1.0% to 0.5%.

So the question no longer seems to be whether the Fed will ease, but whether the move will make any difference.

The Fed has been hamstrung by a credit-market double-whammy: borrowers who are in limbo due to fears of soaring unemployment, and banks that have turned off the lending spigot. Even so, a U.S. economy facing its worst financial crisis since the Great Depression demands the central bank take decisive action.

That has led to a strong undercurrent of opinion among analysts that the Fed will pursue other measures to spark a moribund U.S. economy.

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Fed May Cut Rates Again as Policymakers Meet

Dec 15th, 2008 | By William Patalon III | Category: Financial News

After U.S. Federal Reserve policymakers meet today (Monday) and tomorrow (Tuesday), most experts expect a half a percentage point cut in the benchmark Federal Funds Rate – which is already 1.0%.



Fed Looking at Another Rate Cut, While Treasury Has New Plan for Housing

Dec 8th, 2008 | By William Patalon III | Category: Financial News

With the benchmark Federal Funds rate already down to 1.0%, U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben. S. Bernanke has only so much room for another cut (although many economists are predicting an additional half-percentage-point cut at the Dec.15-16 meeting).



Federal Reserve, Bank of China Cut Interest Rates as Financial Crisis Deepens

Oct 30th, 2008 | By Jason Simpkins | Category: Financial News

Federal Reserve policymakers yesterday (Wednesday) reduced the benchmark Federal Funds rate to 1.0%, an aggressive half-percentage-point cut that central bank Chairman Ben S. Bernanke’s latest attempt to keep the widening financial crisis from tipping the world into a global recession.



Fed to Cut Rates, U.S. Recession Appears Likely

Oct 28th, 2008 | By Jason Simpkins | Category: Financial News

The U.S. Federal Reserve is likely to cut rates tomorrow (Wednesday), possibly in conjunction with central bank counterparts in Europe, as fears of a global recession have intensified. However, the Fed has little room to maneuver as its benchmark Federal Funds rate is already at 2% and analysts remain skeptical that reducing it any further keep the United States from sliding into a prolonged recession.