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 -
Texas factory activity growth, as measured by the production index, “continued to expand in January.”
January 28 -
The Chicago Fed National Activity Index for December rose to 0.27 from a downwardly revised 0.21 in November.
January 28 -
The Jan. 29-30 Federal Open Market Committee may provide information that could strengthen the bond market, if it offers further signals of an expected pause in rate hikes and a softening of its stance on balance sheet normalization, observers say.
January 25 -
Stacey M. Tevlin, an associate director of the Federal Reserve Board’s Division of Research and Statistics, will be promoted to director effective Feb. 4, the Fed announced Friday.
January 25 -
Respondents to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's monthly manufacturing survey reported slower growth in January, while expectations grew.
January 24 -
The composite of the Leading Economic Index was off 0.1% in December following an unrevised 0.2% rise in November, the Conference Board said Thursday.
January 24 -
Service sector “continued to grow modestly in January,” according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond service-sector activity survey, released Wednesday.
January 23 -
Manufacturing growth in the central Atlantic region “was soft in January,” according to the monthly business activity survey conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, as the manufacturing index climbed to negative 2 from negative 8.
January 23 -
The University of Michigan's preliminary January consumer sentiment index reading was 90.7, compared to the final December 98.3 and the preliminary December 97.5, according to market sources.
January 18 -
Industrial production grew 0.3% in December, the Federal Reserve reported Friday.
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