Gary Siegel is a journalist with more than 35 years of experience. He started his professional career at the Long Island Journal newspapers based in Long Beach, N.Y., working his way up from reporter to Assistant Managing Editor. Siegel also worked for Prentice-Hall in Paramus, N.J., covering human resources issues. Siegel has been at The Bond Buyer since 1989, currently covering economic indicators and the Federal Reserve system.
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A negative Federal Reserve monetary policy rate could have helped turn the economy around faster during the Great Recession, according to a Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco researcher.
February 4 -
New orders for manufactured goods decreased 0.6% in November, after dropping an unrevised 2.1% in October.
February 4 -
The Conference Board's Employment Trends Index (ETI) fell to 109.56 in January from a downwardly revised 110.96 in December.
February 4 -
The New York economy slipped in January, with current conditions falling to its lowest level since June.
February 4 -
Monetary policy is “appropriate” and in the range of the estimates of neutral, Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday.
January 30 -
Pending home sales dropped 2.2% to an index reading of 99.0 in December, after a revised 0.9% decline to 101.2 in November.
January 30 -
Private-sector employment increased by 213,000 in January, on a seasonally adjusted basis, ADP estimated Wednesday.
January 30 -
Texas service sector activity “grew at a faster pace in January,” according to business executives responding to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas' Texas Service Sector Outlook Survey, as the revenue index climbed to 14.9, from 10.1.
January 29 -
The consumer confidence index decreased to 120.2 in December from a downwardly revised 126.6 last month.
January 29 -
Home prices in 20 U.S. cities slowed in November for an eighth consecutive month, extending the longest streak since 2014, as affordability issues remain.
January 29
