Tag: Interest Rates

As it lowers a key rate by a quarter point, doubts crop up that the Fed lacks the oomph of old.

Alan Greenspan and others say it’s for insurance, just in case things go wrong.

Look out below if the Fed doesn’t ease much, earnings dip, or the trade war heats up.

So says UBS’s chief, as the Fed, the ECB, and other central banks eye easing.

Mortgage rates are on the way down, which should boost affordability and home building starts.

Opt for stocks and gold, and not the US dollar, hedge fund operator says.

Expanded tariffs by both Washington and Beijing will affect ‘prices paid in stores,’ he says.

Billionaire investor says dollar’s status could be weakened.

Despite political pressure to reduce them, the central bank seems tilted toward eventual hikes.

Commonwealth’s McMillan notes that the central bank believes the economy is strong, so more tightening is coming.

Since he took over the Federal Reserve, stocks had dropped on days when its policymaking body wrapped up work—until yesterday.

Management Board switches focus from row crops to permanent crops to target outsized performance.