Monetary policy

Investors now see roughly an 80% chance of a hike at the Fed’s gathering in December.

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta President Raphael Bostic said continued strength in the U.S. economy would make him comfortable with raising interest rates in December.

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President John Williams said moderate growth and his outlook for higher inflation will allow the U.S. central bank to raise interest rates, while his counterpart in Philadelphia signaled he’s anticipating a hike in December.

Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer continues to expect a tightening U.S. labor market to lift wages and prices.

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.

The Federal Reserve should not raise rates again until inflation is at the 2% target, unless unemployment falls dramatically, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Neel Kashkari wrote in an essay published Monday.

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President Eric Rosengren said the central bank should raise rates in a “regular and gradual” way.

The economy will “probably not” rebound in the last half of 2017, according to Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard, and don’t expect inflation to suddenly turn around either.

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

While monetary policy is not “overly easy,” Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic said his mind is open about tightening.

While he doesn’t “see much risk of an outsized breakout in inflation,” Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans said Monday he is concerned that inflation expectations are too low.

Federal Reserve Bank of New York President William Dudley said factors restraining price pressures should disappear with time, allowing the U.S. central bank to maintain its gradual pace of monetary policy tightening.

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President John Williams said he expects “gradual rate increases” over the next couple of years, with one possibly as early as December.

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.

The Summary of Economic projections calls for one more rate hike in 2017.

The Federal Reserve will begin its balance-sheet-reduction plan in October, the panel announced Wednesday.

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.

After years of maintaining that inflation expectations were stable, Fed policymakers are starting to recognize a small but worrying softening.