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2 weeks ago | 
bloomberg.com | Maria Eloisa Capurro |Craig Torres
The Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve building in Washington. (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve should develop a guiding framework for how it deploys large-scale asset buying, according to an external review of the central bank’s longer-run strategy. The Fed conducts quantitative easing, or the purchase of Treasuries and agency mortgage-backed securities, for two key reasons: to stabilize markets and to stimulate the economy when interest rates are already near zero.
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3 weeks ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Maria Eloisa Capurro |Reade Pickert
Federal Reserve Bank of New York President John Williams said he doesn’t see a need to adjust interest rates “any time soon,” adding the Fed must ensure tariffs don’t lead to persistently high inflation. Williams said the economy is in a “very good place,” and the Fed can wait for more information given so much uncertainty about government policies and their ultimate impact.
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3 weeks ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Maria Eloisa Capurro |Reade Pickert
Federal Reserve Bank of New York President John Williams said he doesn’t see a need to adjust interest rates “any time soon,” adding the Fed must ensure tariffs don’t lead to persistently high inflation. Williams said the economy is in a “very good place,” and the Fed can wait for more information given so much uncertainty about government policies and their ultimate impact.
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3 weeks ago | 
bloomberg.com | Maria Eloisa Capurro |Reade Pickert
John Williams(Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve Bank of New York President John Williams said he doesn’t see a need to adjust interest rates “any time soon,” adding the Fed must ensure tariffs don’t lead to persistently high inflation. Williams said the economy is in a “very good place,” and the Fed can wait for more information given so much uncertainty about government policies and their ultimate impact.
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4 weeks ago | 
bloomberg.com | Amara Omeokwe |Maria Eloisa Capurro
Fed-Chef Jerome Powell hat erneut betont, dass die Zentralbank sicherstellen muss, dass die Zölle nicht zu einem anhaltenden Anstieg der Inflation führen. “Unsere Pflicht ist es, die längerfristigen Inflationserwartungen gut zu verankern und sicherzustellen, dass ein einmaliger Anstieg des Preisniveaus nicht zu einem anhaltenden Inflationsproblem wird”, sagte Powell am Mittwoch neim Economic Club Chicago.
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4 weeks ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Amara Omeokwe |Maria Eloisa Capurro
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell again stressed the central bank must ensure tariffs don’t trigger a more persistent rise in inflation. “Our obligation is to keep longer-term inflation expectations well anchored and to make certain that a one-time increase in the price level does not become an ongoing inflation problem,” Powell said Wednesday at the Economic Club of Chicago.
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4 weeks ago | 
bloomberg.com | Amara Omeokwe |Maria Eloisa Capurro
Jerome Powell, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, during the Society For Advancing Business Editing And Writing (SABEW) annual conference in Arlington, Virginia, US, on Friday, April 4, 2025. President Donald Trump called on Powell to slash interest rates, reiterating his longstanding desire for the central bank to keep rates low to stoke consumer demand.
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1 month ago | 
bloomberg.com | Maria Eloisa Capurro |Alexandre Tanzi
(Bloomberg) -- American consumers see higher inflation in the year ahead and are growing more anxious about their future jobs prospects, according to a monthly survey from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Median expectations for year-ahead inflation rose 0.5 percentage point to 3.6% in March, the biggest one month increase in two years. Consumers’ perceptions of inflation in the medium- and longer-term, however, remained stable.
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1 month ago | 
treasuryandrisk.com | Maria Eloisa Capurro |Kristen Beckman |Mallory Barg Bulman
Shoppers walk along 5th Avenue on Black Friday in New York City on November 25, 2022. Credit: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg. If President Donald Trump’s tariffs jack up U.S. consumer prices—as pretty much everyone thinks they will, at least for a while—then that’s already bad news for inflation fighters at the Federal Reserve. It could also open the door to something even worse.
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1 month ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Maria Eloisa Capurro |Alexandre Tanzi
American consumers see higher inflation in the year ahead and are growing more anxious about their future jobs prospects, according to a monthly survey from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Median expectations for year-ahead inflation rose 0.5 percentage point to 3.6% in March, the biggest one month increase in two years. Consumers’ perceptions of inflation in the medium- and longer-term, however, remained stable.
