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The Federal Reserve will lose an influential centrist with the resignation of Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer, according to a letter sent Wednesday to President Donald Trump. Fischer will retire from the Board of Governors by Oct. 13 for “personal reasons,” leaving his leadership post one...

Billionaire investor David Tepper knows a thing or two about investing, and recently sat down with Forbes to discuss his outlook for the U.S. market and the Federal Reserve. According to Tepper, the Federal Reserve will be "very, very patient" in raising interest rates given their view that...

As 2016 started out, the direction of the US economy for the year was clearly going to be decided on the backs of US consumers. With Washington in gridlock, and in an election year to boot, there was no other viable source of dynamism to spur the economy on. As the US limped out of the 4Q and...

You’re reading the news about China and oil. The Fed will be talking about that news and much more and making news of its own. Some traders will find ways to profit. But will you trade the news you read? Or does the cost and risk keep you on the sidelines? George Soros got a shout-out...

The expectation that the Federal Reserve will raise short-term interest rates this week has been bandied about for weeks, if not months, but financial market behavior last week was anything but old news. Oil prices plunged, the high-yield bond market unraveled, and stocks registered their worst...

As the dog days of summer are nearing an end, intense focus on whether Janet Yellen and the Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) will raise interest rates anytime soon has reached a fever pitch. If there is any other area of the U.S. economy subject to more speculation right...

Is a Fed rate hike looming in September? What will the impact be to the equities market? Unfortunately for investors, the lack of full clarity remains an overhang and major source of concern. Four major banks attempt to offer clarity and their analysis. JPMorgan: Fed More Dovish Than Expected...

This article was originally published on Moneyball Economics. Jobless Claims As a Macroeconomic Leading Indicator A hallmark of every recession has been the surge in initial jobless claims. Specifically, more claims are filed than the previous year. The opposite is also true: recoveries are...

Speaking to Benzinga, Euro Pacific Capital CEO Peter Schiff said that he thinks it is "more likely than not" that the Fed will remove the word "patient" from its commentary on Wednesday afternoon -– but it is not a sure thing. "If they remove it," he said,...