Gary Siegel

The Federal Open Market Committee needs to be careful because the market expects low inflation and the yield curve remains quite flat, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullardsaid late Thursday.

Consumer credit increased by $16.6 billion in December to $4.010 trillion, the Federal Reserve reported Thursday.

Newly issued Treasury securities held in stripped form increased about $2.97 billion in January to a total of $301.182 billion.

Reserve balances still affect the fed funds rate, according to Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Senior Economist A. Lee Smith.

The U.S. international trade gap narrowed to $49.3 billion in November from $55.7 billion in October, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday.

The Federal Reserve can be patient and watch the economy without changing monetary policy for “the next several months,” according to Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Robert Kaplan.

The U.S. services sector expanded at a slower pace in January as the non-manufacturing index dropped to 56.7 from 58.0 in December.

Monetary policy is well positioned, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland President Loretta Mester said Monday evening.

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.

New orders for manufactured goods decreased 0.6% in November, after dropping an unrevised 2.1% in October.

The Conference Board's Employment Trends Index (ETI) fell to 109.56 in January from a downwardly revised 110.96 in December.

The New York economy slipped in January, with current conditions falling to its lowest level since June.

Monetary policy is “appropriate” and in the range of the estimates of neutral, Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday.

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.

Private-sector employment increased by 213,000 in January, on a seasonally adjusted basis, ADP estimated Wednesday.

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.

The consumer confidence index decreased to 120.2 in December from a downwardly revised 126.6 last month.

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.

Texas factory activity growth, as measured by the production index, “continued to expand in January.”

The Chicago Fed National Activity Index for December rose to 0.27 from a downwardly revised 0.21 in November.