Federal Reserve System
Fed should hold rates: IMF
The International Monetary Fund said on Friday that the Federal Reserve should keep rates at 2%.
San Francisco Fed - Annual Report 2007
The San Francisco Federal Reserve in 2007 launched an initiative to help homeowners in hard-hit communities to avoid foreclosure, the institution states in its latest Annual Report.
Boston Federal Reserve - Annual Report 2007
The Boston Federal Reserve focused on researching the problems stemming from subprime mortgages in 2007, the institution's latest Annual Report states.
Fed accused of stalling on Chinese bank licences
Chinese officials have said the Federal Reserve is delaying the approval of banking licences for two of its biggest banks as part of a political ploy.
Fed's Lacker: US may avoid recession
Growth has been slow for 2008, but the US has avoided a recession and the odds of a severe downturn appear to have fallen, said Jeffrey Lacker, the president of Richmond Fed.
Inflation of paramount importance: BoE's Tucker
A senior Bank of England official has underlined the institution's "overriding" commitment to its 2% inflation target.
The Fed on the 1987 crash
The Federal Reserve has assessed its response to the 1987 stock market crash.
Beige Book backs up Bernanke comments
The Federal Reserve's Beige Book indicates the US manufacturing sector is passing on higher input costs to customers.
NY Fed on why the US Treasury auctions bills
The US Treasury began auctioning bills in 1929 to mitigate several flaws in the department's financing structure, research published by the New York Fed reveals.
RBA on why central banks tend towards Fed-set rate
Research by the Reserve Bank of Australia has uncovered why long-term nominal interest rates in a number of inflation-targeting small open economies have tended to be highly correlated with those of the United States.
Fed details banks' balance sheet developments
The Federal Reserve has published an account of the profits of and balance-sheet developments at US commercial banks in 2007.
Futures markets still a useful tool: Bernanke
Policymakers should still look to futures markets to derive their price forecasts of key commodities despite their inaccuracy, Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, said.
Kansas City Fed uncovers optimal inflation rate
Central bankers should aim for inflation of between 0.7% and 1.4% a year, research published by the Kansas City Fed states.
Investment banks must face same rules: Geithner
Timothy Geithner, the president of the New York Federal Reserve who played a key role in the Bear Stearns bailout, has said the major investment banks must be regulated in the same way as their commercial peers.
Fed faces quandary after jobless rate surges
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) may have to make another rate cut later this month after unemployment shot up at its fastest rate for 22 years.
Present doesn't mirror 1970s: Bernanke
The differences between the US economic landscape of the mid-1970s and the present are more pronounced than the similarities, Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, said.
Lower loan costs to stem foreclosures: Boston Fed
Making mortgage payments temporarily affordable for Americans with negative housing equity is the best way to prevent foreclosure, research published by the Boston Fed finds.
Central bankers want action on contagion threat
An influential group of central bankers has urged authorities and the payments industry to tackle the risks presented by the links between systems.
NY Fed analyses large-value payments trends
The evolution of central bank policies is one of the main forces behind changes in large-value payment systems, research published by the New York Federal Reserve finds.
Boston Fed's subprime facts
The Boston Federal Reserve's research into subprime mortgages has so far uncovered seven facts relating to the crisis.
TAF successful in liquidity provision
The Federal Reserve's Term Auction Facility (TAF) is relieving the liquidity concerns and lowering liquidity premiums in the inter-bank money market, a new paper by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas finds.
Kroszner on Basel II
The recent turmoil in financial markets has highlighted the need for risk management improvements and the lessons from the crisis should help supervisors to further increase the effectiveness of the Basel II framework, said Randall Kroszner, a governor…
Recovery requires more than Fed cuts: Warsh
Returning the economy to equilibrium requires actions more befitting than changes in the federal funds rate alone, noted Kevin Warsh, a governor at the Federal Reserve.
Two new vice presidents for Chicago Fed
Carl Tannenbaum, the former chief economist at LaSalle Bank, has joined the Chicago Federal Reserve as vice president. The central bank has also promoted Steve Durfey, the assistant vice president responsible for the supervision and regulation department…