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Long-term mortgage rates ease for third straight week, dipping to just below 7%
FOX 4 Kansas City· 1 day agoLOS ANGELES (AP) — The average rate on a 30-year mortgage dipped this week to just below 7% for the...
Amid doubts, Fed officials kept disinflation faith at last meeting
Reuters via Yahoo Finance· 2 days agoThat meeting was held before data showed the pace of consumer price increases beginning to cool...
The Fed’s Uniformity on Rates Comes With Risks
Bloomberg· 3 days agoThe high-for-long mantra recently adopted by US central bank policymakers raises threats for the economy and financial stability. Mohamed A. El-Erian is...
Two Fed governors see holding rates higher for longer amid slow-moving inflation
Yahoo Finance via AOL· 4 days agoTwo Federal Reserve governors reiterated Monday they see holding rates at current levels until there...
Jerome Powell’s Fed is beginning to think its interest rate hikes ‘may be having smaller effects...
Fortune· 2 days agoMinutes of the May 1 meeting released Wednesday showed that officials also debated whether their key rate was exerting enough of a drag on the economy to further slow inflation. Many officials ...
Slowing Inflation Primes G-7 Central Banks for June
Bloomberg via Yahoo Finance· 6 days ago(Bloomberg) -- Inflation-related releases across the Group of Seven will prime central bankers for crucial June interest-rate decisions, just as they...
Dollar consolidates as Fed urges patience; markets await meeting minutes
Reuters· 3 days agoThe dollar was steady against a handful of peers on Wednesday, as the market assessed calls for...
Fed’s ‘Stigmatized’ Emergency Tool for Banks Draws Flak at Own Conference
Bloomberg via Yahoo Finance· 4 days ago(Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve needs to do more to address issues that keep US banks from...
The Threat of Trumpflation and a Fed War | by J. Bradford DeLong - Project Syndicate
Project Syndicate· 3 days agoInflation in the United States is lower than it was a year ago, and substantial economic weakness...
Why Jay Powell really wants to lower interest rates this September
CNN Business via Yahoo Finance· 5 days agoMarkets rallied to new record highs last week after inflation cooled, stoking hopes that the Federal...