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Though a relatively light number of reports fill the economic data calendar next week, economists will be looking to minutes from the last FOMC meeting to provide clues on when interest rate hikes will begin, and focus on the all-important December jobs report Friday.

One has to wonder what’s going to happen when U.S. markets grow up and realize there is no Santa Claus. 

Minneapolis Fed president Narayana Kocherlakota said in a statement Friday he believes the central bank is creating 'unacceptable' downside risk to inflation, signaling a move from monetary stimulus next year.

The Federal Reserve is in all likelihood removing the 'considerable time' phrase from its policy statement after its two-day meeting concludes Wednesday afternoon.

The Fed surprised most everyone by essentially doubling-down on its dovish policy of keeping interest rates at near-zero for the foreseeable future.

Following its two-day policy meeting, the FOMC renewed its vow to hold rates low ‘for a considerable time’ despite speculation the phrase would be taken out. The Fed added it can be patient toward a liftoff. 

Sharply lower oil prices are likely a temporary event and not expected to impact the Fed’s long-term thinking.

The Fed will decide next week whether interest rates will remain low for “a considerable period” or perhaps some other time frame.

The U.S. economy added 321,000 jobs for the month, the most since January 2012, and much higher than the 230,000 jobs economists expected.

Everyone knows there's 'slack' in the labor market, the question is how it will impact the central bank's decision on timing and trajectory of interest-rate hikes.

The Fed has to figure out how to rid itself of a four-word phrase -- "for a considerable period" -- that lies at the center of a much broader debate raging within the central bank.

At the Fed's two-day policy meeting last month, members debated whether to nix 'considerable time' from its federal-funds rate guidance.

The minutes from the Federal Reserve’s October meeting and a couple of inflationary guideposts highlight next week’s economic calendar.

Workers’ hourly wages could be the key economic indicator that will determine when and how the Federal Reserve will eventually raise interest rates.

A second Polar Vortex threatens to erase the stimulus from plunging gas prices, putting a deep freeze on holiday spending.

Boston Federal Reserve President Eric Rosengren told FOX Business the central bank should remain “patient” as it prepares to raise interest rates from historic lows.

St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President James Bullard weighs in on the midterm elections and what a Republican Congress would mean for the Federal Reserve.

Bank insiders talk now about the unproductive vegetative universe of Dodd Frank creating a cornfield of regulators on Wall Street.

The most interesting thing about QE is that the experimental policy is defined not by what did happen as a result of all the money-printing and bond-purchasing, but rather by what didn’t happen.

The same debate Japan has been having since the ‘90s over undead businesses still in operation is now breaking out in the U.S. and in Europe.