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Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Eric Rosengren said he favors shortening the average maturity of Treasury securities held in the U.S. central bank’s balance sheet as a way of preparing for the next recession.

Climate change will cause growing losses to infrastructure and property and slow economic growth, making it “relevant” to Federal Reserve policymakers.

Stephen Moore drew swift and unusually pointed criticism after President Donald Trump picked him to be a governor of the U.S. Federal Reserve.

The Federal Reserve may have to put interest-rate increases on hold or even ease monetary policy if economic forecasts for 2019 disappoint, Chicago Fed President Charles Evans said.

Former Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen said she’s not a fan of modern monetary theory, saying its proponents are “confused” about what can fuel inflation in the economy.

The U.S. central bank should only raise interest rates once this year “at most” given risks to the economic outlook including Britain’s departure from the European Union, said Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia President Patrick Harker.

Donald Trump said he’s nominating Stephen Moore, a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation and a long-time supporter of the president, for a seat on the Federal Reserve Board.

U.S. bond markets are signaling that the Federal Reserve is close to a neutral policy stance following three years of interest-rate hikes.

A closely watched section of the Treasury yield curve on Friday turned negative for the first time since the crisis more than a decade ago, underscoring concern about a possible economic slump and the prospect that the Federal Reserve will have to cut interest rates.

President Donald Trump expressed hope the Federal Reserve had finished raising interest rates.

Stephen Moore, a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation and a long-time supporter of Donald Trump, is being considered by the president for a seat on the Federal Reserve Board.

Federal Reserve officials scaled back their projected interest-rate increases this year to zero and said they would end the drawdown of the central bank's bond holdings in September.

Federal Reserve officials say they’re willing to tolerate an overshoot of their inflation goal. If the opposite happens, the plan is less clear.

Although the Federal Reserve has made clear it will hold interest rates for the time being, the panel still has much to discuss, including the end of balance sheet normalization and the Fed’s review of how it formulates, conducts, and communicates monetary policy.

Duane McAllister, managing director and senior portfolio manager at Baird Advisors, explains why the Fed would like to raise rates at least one more time and what it learned in 2018. Gary Siegel hosts.

After years of rock-bottom interest rates and with unemployment at 3.8%, where is the inflation.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said interest rates can remain on hold as the U.S. central bank waits to see how conditions abroad evolve.

A gauge of U.S. economic health closely watched by the Federal Reserve is flashing warning signs for the second time this year.

A weakening economic outlook in the U.S. and abroad argue for a “softer” path for interest rates than central bankers previously envisioned, Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard said.

The U.S. economy cooled in the first two months of 2019, with growth characterized as “slight-to-moderate” across most of the country in a Federal Reserve survey.