Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC)
Stanley Fischer confirmed as Fed vice chair, as Brainard joins the board
Lael Brainard passes Senate vote to become newest member on Fed board of governors; expected to be sworn in before FOMC meeting on Tuesday
FOMC's Esther George wants rate lift-off ‘shortly' after end to taper
Kansas City Fed chief says banks are responding to low rates ‘as we should expect' and notes an all-time high of $600 billion of leveraged US loans were issued last year
FOMC mulls further tweaks to forward guidance
Committee member floats the idea of replacing inflation target with a price level target to make up for years of undershooting 2% inflation
New York's Dudley advocates BoE approach to QE exit
New York Fed's William Dudley wants to get off zero lower bound before ending reinvestments in QE assets, the approach favoured by the Bank of England's Mark Carney
FOMC's Lockhart expects rate hike in second half of 2015
Atlanta Fed president believes QE will be 'completely phased out' by the end of 2014, but cautions it may take months to determine whether the US is on a 'sustained growth path'
FOMC should be more explicit about its reaction function, says Plosser
Federal Reserve Bank of Phladelphia president Charles Plosser says 'simple, robust rules' can provide useful guidance for FOMC policy
Fed slows asset purchases to $45 billion a month
Growth in economic activity has picked up recently, after having slowed sharply during the winter in part because of adverse weather conditions, the FOMC notes
Rosengren calls on FOMC to update forward guidance
Boston Fed president Eric Rosengren – who is not on the FOMC this year – calls for guidance to be increasingly linked to achieving the dual mandate
FOMC minutes reveal disagreement on forward guidance
Members emphasised ‘uncertainty associated with using thresholds, triggers, or floors' as part of forward guidance in March video conference
Jeremy Stein quits the Federal Reserve
Jeremy Stein, who joined the Federal Reserve board of governors in May 2012, will step down four years early
FOMC member says 3% growth would prompt fed funds rate 'lift-off'
Atlanta Fed president Dennis Lockhart advocates a 'dashboard' approach to forward guidance and says quantitative easing is tapering 'predictably'
Fed switches MBS purchases to proprietary platform
The New York Fed, which implements FOMC policies, will start using its FedTrade platform to buy mortgage-backed securities later this month
Cyclical character of US unemployment makes monetary policy a remedy, says Yellen
Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen argues cyclical character of US unemployment renders monetary policy an important tool in fighting it
FOMC members discuss international spillovers of Fed monetary policy
Charles Plosser and Richard Fisher sound off on accommodating policies' impact on other countries, but make no promises of international considerations on FOMC
Fed transcripts reveal forecasting travails
Crisis year transcripts reveal extent to which the Federal Reserve struggled to predict the depth of recession and deflation, raising questions about the usefulness of underlying models
Yellen hits back at critics over 'discriminatory' treatment of foreign banks
Following EU complaints, Fed chair tells Senate panel that new regulations are essentially the same as those faced by US banks abroad; Bitcoin is outside Fed's remit
Fed transcripts reveal origins of modern forward guidance
Transcripts from the FOMC’s meetings in 2008 reveal the considerations that informed forward guidance at the time and continue to influence central banks’ communication policy today
Fed publishes FOMC transcripts from 'crisis year' 2008
Transcripts of FOMC meetings from the year Lehman Brothers went bust reveal thinking behind exceptional monetary policy decisions
Fed's Bullard wants more research into what drives labour market participation
St Louis Fed president concludes the existing literature suggests demographics are behind most of the decline in participation, but calls for more detailed work on household participation decisions
New face for FOMC as Cleveland Fed pick Pianalto replacement
Mester, head of research at Philadelphia Fed, will take over on June 1; will contribute insights on financial stability effects of monetary policy to FOMC, says Don Kohn
Fed's Plosser wants to end asset purchases by summer
Philadelphia Fed president and FOMC member who voted for the Fed's ‘measured' $10bn taper in January reiterates earlier calls to scale back QE at ‘faster pace'
Unanimous Fed decision to taper 'sets precedent'
FOMC scales back monthly purchases by another $10 billion, makes no mention of EM turmoil; unanimous decision seen as making dissent less likely in coming meetings
Fed's Williams says ‘highly effective' forward guidance has a ‘number of limitations'
San Francisco Fed president defends the policy's record in a paper written for the Brookings Institution, but also says it is ‘prone to misinterpretation'
Fisher says Fed must stop QE ‘as soon as feasible'
Exit from quantitative easing is ‘daunting' according to Dallas Fed president Richard Fisher, who compared it yesterday to passing a camel through the eye of a needle