FOMC

Societe Generale’s Albert Edwards believes that the United States could soon set negative interest rates for the first time. Edwards argued that the United States is currently in a worse economic position than Japan was prior to its lost decade. He presented data that China’s slumping...

This week, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY) has added 1.75 percent in advance of the Fed's Thursday decision. UBS strategist Themos Fiotakis forecasted that "a decision to raise rates would be a surprise," but that the tightening path ahead is more important than the...

Fed. Fed. Fed. Fed. Did you hear? The Federal Reserve has a meeting this week. And wouldn’t you know it, plenty of stock uncertainty is in the mix. Already, choppy global stock trade colors the week that puts the U.S. Fed—and its hand-wringing interest rate decision—smack in the...

• Morgan Stanley believes there is a 90 percent chance that the Fed will choose not to raise interest rates in September. • The firm sees a pair of indicators that upcoming U.S. economic data could fall short of consensus expectations. • The firm believes the most likely outcome...

• U.S. monetary policy is currently much looser than it should be based on the Taylor Rule. • There are several key abnormalities in the current economic cycle. • Deutsche Bank’s chief economist believes that the U.S. economy is strong enough to digest a 0.25 percent ...

Back in June, Miller Tabak + Co., LLC predicted that REITs would see valuation multiple contraction as the market anticipated the first Federal Reserve rate hike. Now, three months later, analyst Thomas Mitchell believes that the multiple contraction is now complete and that REITs are once again...

In a new report, Bank of America analyst Ethan Harris discussed the recent market action in response to China and looked at the probability that the S&P 500’s decline is indicative of a recession on the horizon in the United States. Despite a relatively high score on the firm’s...

Only a few weeks ago, a growing majority seemed to think that a September rate hike by the FOMC was inevitability. My, how things have changed. In a new note out this week, Citi Research analyst William Lee took a look at how the past week of market instability has affected the potential for a...

As the dog days of summer are nearing an end, intense focus on whether Janet Yellen and the Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) will raise interest rates anytime soon has reached a fever pitch. If there is any other area of the U.S. economy subject to more speculation right...

The minutes of the top-secret Fed meeting were released 10 minutes early on Wednesday due to some sort of leak. No, it didn't have to do with the Ashley Madison leakage, however it succeeded in creating a somewhat similar chaos among forex couples, especially the ones paired up with Ms. USA...

The U.S. FOMC minutes had the market's attention on Wednesday after talk of "approaching" rate hike conditions boosted gold and Treasuries. The key points of the minutes were: The system is taking steps to prepare for the "normalization" of monetary policy. Most Fed...

A growing number of traders and analysts have begun to anticipate that the first FOMC rate hike of a new tightening cycle could happen as soon as next month. Conventional wisdom says that rising interest rates are good for banks’ net interest margins, but do rising interest rates produce...

Now that the dust has settled and the much awaited Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) statement has secured its spot in the federal reserve's press release section, lets dig in and see how it affected the market, and more importantly,what we could expect to happen to Ms. USA on the forex dance...

The Federal Reserve Board said in a statement on Friday that notes prepared as a background for last month's FOMC meeting were accidentally published on its website on June 29. Since the information was made public, the Fed decided not to take down the notes and instead make them more easily...