Janet Yellen

Federal Reserve Governor Jerome Powell deflected questions about his interest in succeeding Janet Yellen at the helm of the U.S. central bank when her term as chair expires on Feb. 3, 2018.

Paul Mortimer-Lee, chief market economist at BNP Paribas, discusses the leadership of the Fed and possible replacements for Janet Yellen.

Given the numerous uncertainties in the economy, gradual rate hikes remain the best course, Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen said.

Inflation will reach 2% in 2019 and stay there in 2020, after getting close in 2018, Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen said during a press conference Wednesday afternoon.

A decade after the financial crisis first flickered, the U.S. is set this week to lead the developed world in exiting unconventional policies that central banks unleashed to save the global economy.

The Federal Open Market Committee meeting should produce a start date for balance sheet reduction and a new dot plot, but no rate hike.

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen and President Donald Trump’s daughter and adviser Ivanka had a breakfast meeting on July 17 at the U.S. central bank, according to Yellen’s public schedule.

Watching for the “risks of excessive optimism, leverage, and maturity transformation” can limit future financial crises, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said Friday.

White House economic adviser Gary Cohn is emerging as the clear front-runner for the nomination to succeed Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, according to a National Association for Business Economics survey.

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen will join European Central Bank President Mario Draghi in Jackson Hole, Wyo., next week, setting the stage for a potentially revealing debate over the common challenges facing the world’s two most powerful central banks.

Federal Reserve officials engaged in a detailed debate about inflation while keeping the door open for a September announcement on the timing of balance-sheet reductions, according to minutes from their policy meeting in July.

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard said Janet Yellen’s successor should consider holding press conference after every policy meeting, if she isn’t picked for a second term at the helm of the U.S. central bank.

The Federal Reserve’s balance sheet will be reduced substantially, but not to the $1 billion level from before the financial crisis, Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen said.

Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen said Wednesday that although the timing of balance sheet normalization beginning “doesn’t matter a great deal,” she would like to see it start “relatively soon.”

It’s “premature” to decide inflation won’t go back to 2% in the coming years, and the Federal Reserve will alter its course if the inflation undershoot is “persistent,” Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen said Wednesday.

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said the U.S. economy should continue to expand over the next few years, allowing the central bank to keep raising interest rates, while also stressing the Fed is monitoring too-low inflation.

In its semiannual monetary policy report to Congress, the Federal Reserve Board gave no new insight into its current policy stance, when it might raise rates again or when it would initiate a change to its reinvestment policy.

A divided Federal Reserve policy committee couldn’t reach agreement in June on the timing of when to begin shrinking its massive balance sheet, according to minutes of the meeting.

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen was treated for a urinary tract infection over the weekend, the Federal Reserve said Monday.

The Federal Reserve will release the report early to allow it to be reviewed by Congress and the public before testimony.