USA Bank System - Announced by FED the scenarios that will be used by banks and supervisory authorities of the stress test exercises - For the 2017 cycle, the severely adverse scenario is characterized by a severe global recession in which the U.S. unemployment rate rises by about 5.25 percentage points to 10 percent ..

NEWS Release -  Federal Reserve Board releases scenarios for 2017 Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) and Dodd-Frank Act stress test exercises and issues instructions to firms participating in CCAR

The Federal Reserve Board on Friday released the scenarios to be used by banks and supervisors for the 2017 Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) and Dodd-Frank Act stress test exercises and also issued instructions to firms participating in CCAR.

USA Economy - No one likes high inflation, and it is easy to understand why. Although wages and prices tend to move in tandem over long periods, inflation erodes household purchasing power if it is not matched with similar increases in wages, and it eats away the value of households' savings. - Janet Yellen - FED

NEWS Release -  Speech  - Chair Janet L. Yellen At the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, California  - January 18, 2017

The Goals of Monetary Policy and How We Pursue Them

Good afternoon. It is a pleasure to join all of you at the Commonwealth Club today, not the least because the club and the Federal Reserve have a few things in common. Both organizations, as it happens, have a board of governors and a chair. 

USA Economy - The Federal Reserve Board announced the preliminary results indicating. - The Reserve Banks provided for payments represents decrease of $7.6 billion from 2015 - FED

NEWS Release -   Federal Reserve Board announces Reserve Bank income and expense data and transfers to the Treasury for 2016

The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced preliminary results indicating that the Reserve Banks provided for payments of approximately $92.0 billion of their estimated 2016 net income to the U.S. Treasury.  The 2016 audited Reserve Bank financial statements are expected to be published in March and may include adjustments to these preliminary unaudited results.

USA Economy - The Committee decided to raise the target range for the federal funds rate to 1/2 to 3/4 percent ..- FED

PressRelease - Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement

Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in November indicates that the labor market has continued to strengthen and that economic activity has been expanding at a moderate pace since mid-year. Job gains have been solid in recent months and the unemployment rate has declined. 

USA Economy - The forceful monetary policy response, the liquidity programs of the Federal Reserve, and the FDIC's guarantee of bank debt prevented the bottom from dropping out of the badly shaken financial system. The emergency fiscal stimulus of 2009 helped prevent a downward spiral in the real economy from a Great Recession to another depression. - Daniel K. Tarullo - FED

NEWS Release -  Speech - Governor Daniel K. Tarullo  - At the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and Office of Financial Research 2016 Financial Stability Conference, Washington, D.C.

Last summer, when I accepted President Loretta Mester's invitation to speak at this conference, I thought it would be a good occasion to step back and assess where we stand in our post-crisis efforts to promote financial stability in the United States.

USA Economy - Employers have been adding roughly 180,000 jobs per month so far this year--a pace a little below that of the past several years but significantly higher than underlying growth in the labor force.. - Jerome H. Powell - FED

NEWS Release -  Speech- Governor Jerome H. Powell  - At the The Economic Club of Indiana, Indianapolis, Indiana  - November 29, 2016

Recent Economic Developments and Longer-Run Challenges

USA Economy - GDP growth was forecast to be faster over the second half of this year than in the first half, as business investment was anticipated to turn up and the drag from inventory investment was expected to end. .. - FED

NEWS Release -  Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee, November 1-2, 2016

Long-Run Monetary Policy Implementation Framework

 Committee participants continued their discussion of potential long-run frameworks for monetary policy implementation, a topic last discussed at the July 2016 FOMC meeting. The staff provided briefings that summarized considerations regarding potential choices of policy rates, operating regimes, and balance sheet policies and highlighted tradeoffs associated with these choices. 

USA Economy - Prominent among these challenges are low equilibrium interest rates and sluggish productivity growth in the United States and abroad. I will first touch on low interest rates before turning to productivity - Stanley Fischer - FED

NEWS Release -  Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer - At "A Conversation with Stanley Fischer," sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations, New York 

Longer-Term Challenges for the U.S. Economy

USA - The global economy is at a critical juncture today - According to the International Monetary Fund's latest World Economic Outlook, global gross domestic product (GDP) is set to grow at only 3.1 percent this year, the lowest rate of growth since the Global Financial Crisis.. - Jerome H. Powell - FED

NEWS Release - The Global Trade Slowdown and Its Implications for Emerging Asia -  Governor Jerome H. Powell  -  At "CPBS 2016 Pacific Basin Research Conference," sponsored by the Center for Pacific Basin Studies at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, -  San Francisco, California - November 18, 2016

USA Economy - Market liquidity is the ability to rapidly execute sizable securities transactions at a low cost and with a limited price impact . - Stanley Fischer - FED

NEWS Release -  Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer - At "Do We Have a Liquidity Problem Post-Crisis?", a conference sponsored by the Initiative on Business and Public Policy at the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.  - November 15, 2016

                               

Is There a Liquidity Problem Post-Crisis?

USA Economy - Over the course of the past two years, a variety of negative shocks have affected the U.S. economy, but employment has resumed robust growth after each temporary slowdown .. - Stanley Fischer - FED

NEWS Release - Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer  - At the 17th Jacques Polak Annual Research Conference, sponsored by the International Monetary Fund, Washington, D.C.  - November 4, 2016

The Economic Outlook

USA Economy - Household spending has been rising moderately but business fixed investment has remained soft. Inflation has increased somewhat since earlier this year but is still below the Committee's 2 percent longer-run objective .. - FED

NEWS Release -  Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement

Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in September indicates that the labor market has continued to strengthen and growth of economic activity has picked up from the modest pace seen in the first half of this year. 

USA Economy - The JPMC's outgoing services for the securities of the US government .. - FED

NEWS Release - Governor Jerome H. Powell  - At The Evolving Structure of the U.S. Treasury Market: Second Annual Conference, Federal Reserve Bank of New York,   -  New York  - October 24 2016

Opening Remarks on Government Securities Settlement

USA - After five years of post-crisis stress testing, we believed it was important for us to conduct a more thorough assessment of the program. Taking advantage of the shift in timing of the annual stress tests following the 2015 cycle.. - FED

Press Release - Governor Daniel K. Tarullo - At the Yale University School of Management Leaders Forum, New Haven, Connecticut - September 26, 2016

Next Steps in the Evolution of Stress Testing

USA - The Committee decided to maintain the target range for the federal funds rate at 1/4 to 1/2 percent. The Committee judges that the case for an increase in the federal funds rate has strengthened but decided, for the time being, to wait for further evidence of continued progress toward its objectives .. - FED

Press Release - Federal Reserve Board and Federal Open Market Committee release economic projections from the September 20-21 FOMC meeting

Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in July indicates that the labor market has continued to strengthen and growth of economic activity has picked up from the modest pace seen in the first half of this year. 

USA - Headwinds from abroad should matter to U.S. policymakers because recent experience suggests global financial markets are tightly integrated, such that disturbances emanating from Chinese or euro-area financial markets quickly spill over to U.S. financial markets. The fallout from adverse foreign shocks appears to be more powerfully transmitted to the U.S. than previously .. - FED

NEWS Release -  Governor Lael Brainard At the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Chicago, Illinois September 12, 2016

The "New Normal" and What It Means for Monetary Policy

In the months ahead, my colleagues and I will continue to assess what policy path will best promote the sustained attainment of our goals. With that in mind, I would like to start by describing the contours of today's economy that will be particularly important in shaping the appropriate path of policy before reviewing recent developments.

USA - U.S. economic activity continues to expand, led by solid growth in household spending. But business investment remains soft and subdued foreign demand and the appreciation of the dollar since mid-2014 continue to restrain exports. While economic growth has not been rapid, it has been sufficient to generate further improvement in the labor market. ..- Janet L. Yellen - FED

NEWS Release - Chair Janet L. Yellen - At "Designing Resilient Monetary Policy Frameworks for the Future," a symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Jackson Hole, Wyoming - August 26, 2016

The Federal Reserve's Monetary Policy Toolkit: Past, Present, and Future

USA - We are close to our targets. Not only that, the behavior of employment has been remarkably resilient. During the past two years we have been concerned at various stages by the possible negative effects on the U.S. economy of the Greek debt crisis, by the 20 percent appreciation of the trade-weighted dollar, by the Chinese growth slowdown and accompanying exchange rate uncertainties, by the financial market turbulence during the first six weeks of this year, by the dismaying pothole in job growth this May, and by Brexit--among other shocks .. - Stanley Fischer - FED

NEWS Release - Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer  - At the "Program on the World Economy" a conference sponsored by The Aspen Institute, Aspen, Colorado  August 21, 2016

Remarks on the U.S. Economy

USA - The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday ordered Goldman Sachs Group to pay a $36.3 million civil money penalty for its unauthorized use and disclosure of confidential supervisory information..

Press Release - Federal Reserve Board orders Goldman Sachs Group to pay $36.3 million civil money penalty and announces it is instituting enforcement proceedings against former Goldman Sachs managing director

USA - Enforcement actions against former (FX) trader and penalties for the control deficiencies related to the foreign exchange market, by the FED..

Press Release -  Federal Reserve Board prohibits former foreign exchange (FX) trader from participating in banking industry for his manipulation of FX pricing benchmarks