Federal Reserve

The highlight of next week’s economic calendar will be the minutes from last month’s meeting of the Federal Reserve.

New York Federal Reserve President William Dudley said concerns that U.S. central bankers are considering negative interest rates are “extraordinarily premature.”

Federal Reserve policy is "appropriately quite accommodative" given the low level of inflation, which poses little threat to a U.S. economic expansion that will only grow older unless there is an outside shock, an influential Fed official said on Friday.

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen on Thursday said negative interest rates in the U.S. are unlikely but not out of the question.

The Fed chief said tightening financial conditions and an uncertain global outlook could throw the U.S. economy off track from an otherwise solid course.

A top Federal Reserve policymaker on Wednesday expressed concern that U.S. reforms enacted after the global financial crisis may have made it harder to stem a credit market panic, a warning that came amid growing stress in corners of the banking sector.

The imposition of negative interest rates by central banks in Japan and Europe has American investors spooked that the U.S. Fed might be mulling a similar policy. They needn't worry.

Fed Chair Janet Yellen will appear before Congress on Wednesday and Thursday for her semi-annual report on monetary policy.

Yellen will appear Wednesday and Thursday and she will undoubtedly be asked if the Fed has backed off plans to raise interest rates as many as four times in 2016.

The U.S. economy will work through the latest market selloff and "regain its footing" said Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester on Thursday.

With an eye toward recent global market turbulence, the Federal Reserve on Wednesday left interest rates alone while acknowledging the rough start to 2016 and offering assurances that interest rates probably won't be moving any higher any time soon.

The Federal Reserve’s decision to keep its benchmark interest rate unchanged following a two-day policy meeting in January was met on Wall Street with fairly negative reaction after markets had about an hour to digest the news.

The Federal Reserve will meet next week for the first time since raising interest rates off their rock-bottom lows in December, but policy makers won’t be raising rates again. A reading on fourth quarter GDP is also due.

The drop in oil prices and a strong dollar have raised the risk of U.S. inflation expectations heading lower, hampering actual inflation from reaching the Federal Reserve's 2 percent goal, a Fed official said on Friday.

U.S. wage growth remains stubbornly weak across much of the U.S. even as labor markets continue to tighten, the Federal Reserve reported Wednesday.

The market didn’t act badly this past week, but if you just looked at Thursday and Friday, it felt awful.

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Asian stock markets climbed Tuesday after Fed officials tried to soothe fears over the world economy and investors hoped for stabilization in weak China factory data.

U.S. stocks rose broadly Monday as investors looked beyond the uncertain timing of a possible interest rate increase by the Federal Reserve.

Asian stock markets were mostly lower Monday after concerns about global growth weighed on U.S. and European share prices.