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Federal Reserve action to keep credit flowing rewards risky behavior and the remedy may be tougher regulation in the future, said former New York Federal Reserve Bank President William Dudley.

Federal Reserve Bank of New York President John Williams said policy makers are “thinking very hard” about targeting specific yields on Treasury securities as a way of ensuring borrowing costs stay at rock-bottom levels beyond keeping the benchmark interest rate near zero.

Numbers in the fall will offer clearer picture of where economy is.

The Federal Reserve chair says it may take a while, but the U.S. economy will get back where it was before the coronavirus pandemic.

The economy continues to take a beating, but the Empire State Manufacturing Survey suggests better times are expected in six months.

Atlanta Fed president said the Fed is keeping "all tools on the table" and could discuss negative rates.

The Federal Reserve is close to standing up two corporate lending programs that could buy up to $750 billion in debt and exchange-traded funds under its emergency coronavirus actions.

Fed officials also talk about the muni liquidity facility and efforts to help the economy in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The municipal market is dealing with a major liquidity event, with massive short-end selling.

The Federal Reserve continued its moves to minimize the effects of COVID-19 on the U.S. economy.

The Federal Open Market Committee lowered the fed funds rate target to between zero and ¼% in an emergency meeting on Sunday, but while analysts say the move was needed, they feel it will take more to offset the effects of COVID-19.

Career veterans call fallout from COVID-19 concerns on the municipal market worse than that of 9/11 and the 2008 financial crisis combined.

Strong data and reassuring words from a Fed official couldn’t stop market virus fears from spreading.

Little hint as to direction of future monetary policy moves.

Two Federal Reserve Bank presidents were positive about the economy in 2020, but offered a look at what worries them.

While Fed officials repeated their contention that monetary policy is appropriate and rates can be held if the outlook remains as expected, the situation with Iran could cause preemptive cuts, one noted economist suggests.

William Dudley, who used to oversee the Federal Reserve’s interaction with financial markets, said the central bank should introduce a long-discussed but never implemented tool to ensure U.S. cash markets remain calm.

The U.S. and the rest of the industrial world may have to resign themselves to an extended period of slow economic growth, subdued inflation and low interest rates. The trick will be in avoiding something even worse.

The economy should continue its moderate growth path, inflation may tick up, downside risks seem to have been put at bay by the Federal Reserve, and rates are likely to stay where they are, experts say.

Recession fears, which persisted earlier this year, have subsided and Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President Eric Rosengren does not expect a downturn unless a major shock occurs.