There are two major priorities the Federal Reserve is facing, and how they enact deal with them will have a lot of impact on business and consumers. Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) has the view that the Fed will increase interest rates rather than unload assets off its balance sheet.
This is contrary to most economists, who believe [...]
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Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) Has Contrary View on Federal Reserve Priorities
Citigroup (NYSE:C) CFO Says Employee Pay Will Be Competitive in 2010
The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for Citigroup (NYSE:C), John Gerspach, stated unequivocally at a conference on Thursday that employees of the bank were paid competitively in 2009 and could expect to see similar pay in 2010. The statement came at a conference hosted by Credit Suisse, and comes at a time when the banking giant [...]
February 12th, 2010 | John | Comments | Continued
Americans Continue To Slash Credit While Bank Of America (NYSE: BAC) And Citigroup (NYSE: C) Battle Credit Card Defaults
Though many major banks, such as Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) and Citigroup (NYSE: C) continue to report double-digit credit card default rates, Americans have also continued to cut down total credit levels. The Federal Reserve announced Friday that U.S. consumer credit dropped $17.5 billion in November, marking the largest monthly drop on record.
Just last [...]
Small Banks Resisting Interference of Federal Reserve in Executive Compensation
Even though the U.S. government acknowledges the compensation given by small banks to their executives had nothing to do with the banking crisis, they continue to pursue a policy of interfering with small banks by writing up compensation guidelines, which by their own admission, small banks don’t need.
While small banks are exempt from the major [...]
Federal Reserve Selects Two Community Bankers For Consumer Advisory Panel As ICBA Continues To Make Footprint
In yet another example of community banks gaining traction over the influence of the U.S. financial system, the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) announced last week that the Federal Reserve selected to more of its members to serve on its Consumer Advisory Council.
The Fed’s advisory council helps the central bank decide how to handle [...]
Federal Reserve Proposes ‘Term Deposit Facility’ to Withdraw Money from Banking System
On Monday the Federal Reserve put forth the idea of creating a new way to withdraw money from the banking system when the need to tighten money policy presents itself.
Dubbed a term deposit facility, what it will do is allow banks or other financial institutions opportunity to earn interest on loans that are of longer [...]
Federal Reserve Considers Term-Deposits To Help Reign In Excess Bank Reserves
The Federal Reserve announced Monday that it is considering the use of a term-deposit program that would motivate financial institutions to park excess reserves at the central bank. The move is being considered as the Fed ponders how to reign in hundreds of billions in excess reserves that have been pumped into the system over [...]
December 28th, 2009 | mitch | Comments | Continued
Senate Banking Committee Confirms Bernanke for Second Term, Goes to Senate Floor for Full Vote
While it’s not certain Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will be confirmed for a second term by the Senate, he has taken one more step toward that probably being the case, as the Senate Banking Committee voted 16-7 to give the beleaguered Bernanke another four-year stint at the Federal Reserve helm.
As usual, Senator Jim Bunning [...]
TIME Chooses Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke As 2009 Person Of The Year
After much consideration, TIME Magazine announced that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has been names its 2009 Person of the Year. According to TIME managing editor Richard Stengel, Bernanke edged out General Stanley McChyrstal, who heads up the U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
While appearing on the TODAY show Wednesday morning, Stengel said Bernanke received the nod [...]
Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) Asia Chairman Stephen Roach Says Federal
At a recent conference in Berlin, Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) Asia Chairman Stephen Roach said that the Federal Reserve is the “weak link” among central banks, and they could create another financial crisis, beyond the one they already created, by no taking the liquidity out of the U.S. economy in a sound manner.
The major concern of [...]
Will Ron Paul Vote Against His Own Bill to Audit the Federal Reserve?
Washington has been so out of touch with principles and reality for so long, that they probably think voting for the bill initiated by Ron Paul to edit the Federal Reserve would be political feather in the cap of Ron Paul. But it looks like that isn’t going to be so, as it wasn’t allowed [...]
December 8th, 2009 | Gary | Comments | Continued
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