Tag: Jeffrey Lacker

• Thursday, October 29th 2015 - 07:32 UTC

  Fed rates unchanged; fears of monetary easing in EU, Japan and China, and inflation still below 2%

  

  The US Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged on Wednesday, but downplayed global economic headwinds and left the door open to tightening monetary policy at its next meeting in December.

• Wednesday, June 20th 2012 - 20:30 UTC

  Federal Reserve extends monetary stimulus for another six months

  

  The Federal Reserve extended on Wednesday its monetary stimulus to the US economic recovery renewing effort to depress borrowing costs by selling short-term bonds to buy longer-dated ones.