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Will the Fed cut rates in a box? Will they cut them with a fox? Will they cut rates in a house? Will they cut them with a mouse? Find out with @bykylecampbell.bsky.social and me as we live blog the FOMC press conference.
Federal Open Market Committee press conference
The Federal Reserve's monetary policy group is expected to hold rates steady, but the chairman will face a litany of questions about the year ahead and on the inflationary impact of implications of th...
www.americanbanker.com
January 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
We're live blogging the FOMC press conference! Check it out:
Federal Open Market Committee press conference: Live coverage
The Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market Committee cut the federal funds rate by 25 basis points Wednesday, and Fed Chair Jerome Powell will take questions from reporters following the meeting.
www.americanbanker.com
December 18, 2024 at 7:22 PM
The outrage about debanking crypto is based on the assumption that banks would only stop their relationships with a fintech or crypto firm because of regulatory pressure, not because of plain old risk appetite. Forcing banks to take all comers forces them to assume risk whether they like it or not.
You can't stop debanking without changing banking
Allegations of regulators pressuring banks to drop clients and customers because of political views or ties to legal-but-disfavored industries have sparked outrage among conservatives. But requiring b...
www.americanbanker.com
December 11, 2024 at 3:30 PM
For a place with supposedly robust controls on insider trading this seems to happen more often than never:
SEC charges ex-Fed examiner with insider trading
The Securities and Exchange Commission accused a former supervisor with the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond of trading New York Community Bank and Capital One stock based on material nonpublic inform...
www.americanbanker.com
November 18, 2024 at 8:52 PM