Federal Reserve

Janet Yellen’s first appearance before a Congressional committee as Fed chair is likely to be a bit more contentious than her nomination hearings.

The highlight of next week’s economic calendar will almost certainly be Janet Yellen’s testimony before Congress, her first as the newly-installed head of the Federal Reserve.

Dallas Fed chief Richard Fischer said in an exclusive interview on FOX Business that the current selloff in stock markets won’t deter his support for tapering the Fed’s monthly bond purchases.

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will join the Brookings Institution, a Washington-based policy think tank, beginning on Monday.

The release of the January jobs report next week may draw attention away from turmoil in emerging markets.  

Emerging markets are in a panic and job growth in the U.S. hit a significant snag last month. Nevertheless, the Federal Reserve is bullish on America.

The Fed didn’t let a lousy jobs report or recent turbulence in emerging markets get in the way of its plan to gradually scale back its easy-money policies.

While the knee-jerk reaction is to blame the Fed for the recent turbulence in emerging markets, a closer look reveals a number of other factors.

As the Fed's policy-setting board meets, it's being confronted with tepid economic data and scary emerging-market issues.

The Fed guessing game – will they or won’t they – will occupy investors next week as central bankers decide whether to continue scaling back their long-running easy money policies. Plus earnings from Apple, Facebook and Amazon.  

The Federal Reserve has released new guidance aimed at eight of the largest U.S. banks designed to help prevent failures, improve stability and ward off another financial crisis.

Everyone’s debating whether Bernanke’s quantitative-easing experiment worked, but the truth is, we may be in deeper you-know-what than before.

The Fed has begun shifting its attention away from long-held concerns for a stubbornly high unemployment rate and toward an inexplicably low inflation rate.

As the U.S. jobless rate slides unexpectedly swiftly toward the Federal Reserve's rate-hike threshold, central bankers face a tough decision. Jobs Miss: U.S. Economy Only Adds 74K Payrolls in Dec.  |  Utilities Rally

Rating Bernanke: Ben Bernanke stewarded the economy through a nearly fatal meltdown and became one of the finance world's most divisive figures.

Janet Yellen will take her final step toward becoming the first woman to chair the U.S. Federal Reserve Board, and the December jobs report is out on Friday.

The playbook's written and the 2014 game plan in place, now Janet Yellen is poised to take the helm of the Federal Reserve.

Outgoing Fed chairman Ben Bernanke, who steered the economy from the brink of collapse, reflected on his two terms as America's top monetary economist.

The full Senate will vote Monday at about 5:30 p.m. EST on Janet Yellen’s appointment as chairman of the Federal Reserve, Reuters reported Thursday.

Inflation is showing signs it could accelerate in the United States, a top Federal Reserve policymaker said in comments that back the view that the central bank will hike interest rates again this year.