Tag: Interest Rates

Investors will be looking for hints from Janet Yellen about the likelihood of more increases later this year. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Fed holds off on rate hike, still sees two hikes this year

Joseph Lawler · June 15, 2016 6:01 pm

Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen and other officials has served to convince investors that rates are rising faster than previously thought, and those investors in turn have bid up interest rates on short-term bonds. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

How the Fed is raising interest rates through talking

Joseph Lawler · June 6, 2016 4:01 am

April vote a sign that Federal Reserve officials see the economy improving enough to tighten monetary policy. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Four Fed banks voted to raise rates

Joseph Lawler · May 24, 2016 6:51 pm

Minutes from the meeting released by the Fed said that "most" participants judged that "it likely would be appropriate" to raise rates in June if job growth continued and economic growth picked up. (AP Photo)

Fed members see June rate hike as ‘likely’ if economy holds up

Joseph Lawler · May 18, 2016 6:10 pm

Key House Democrats warm to Fed payments to banks

Joseph Lawler · May 17, 2016 4:02 pm

The rate on federal loans will fall from 4.29 percent to 3.76 percent next school year. (AP Photo/Dave Kolpack)

Student loan rates to drop

Joseph Lawler · May 11, 2016 10:14 pm

Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen and other officials at the central bank are at odds with bond market investors over monetary policy. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Investors don’t believe Fed’s plans for rate hikes

Joseph Lawler · April 26, 2016 4:01 am

Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen may have something to worry about should Donald Trump become president. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump not sold on Janet Yellen as Fed chair

Kelly Cohen · April 20, 2016 1:10 pm

New York Federal Reserve President William Dudley said Monday that the economy is strong enough for the central bank to tighten the money supply further, but only if such moves are "gradual and cautious." (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

NY Fed chief says rate hikes will be ‘gradual and cautious’

Joseph Lawler · April 18, 2016 1:10 pm

Why Can’t Yellen Raise Rates?

Irwin M. Stelzer · April 2, 2016 4:01 am

Left off Janet Yellen's list was negative interest rates, a concept that has generated a large amount of commentary and suspicion from the press and investors in recent months. (AP Photo)

Yellen suggests bond buying, not negative rates, if economy falters

Joseph Lawler · March 29, 2016 6:03 pm

Speaking in Savannah, Ga., Dennis Lockhart cited "sufficient momentum" in recent economic data to "justify a further step at one of the coming meetings, possibly as early as the meeting scheduled for the end of April." (AP Photo)

Fed rate hike may be needed as soon as April, official says

Joseph Lawler · March 21, 2016 5:28 pm