Monetary Policy

The eurozone economic recovery is ongoing. That is a statement some investors may be tired of hearing because they've been hearing it for four or five years now, but data indicate even peripheral eurozone economies are farming though lingering pockets of concern. Although the euro is...

U.S. equities were trading in positive territory ahead of the release of the Federal Reserve's minutes from its December meeting. Heading into the final 30 minutes of trading, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY) was lower by 1.22 percent while the PowerShares QQQ Trust, Series 1 (ETF...

Ben Bernanke, the former Fed Chairman, told CNBC that slow productivity growth is weighing on the U.S. economy. Bernanke added that additional capital investment is needed to spur further growth. Shares of the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY) remained higher by 0.6 percent following...

The Federal Reserve Board said in a statement on Friday that notes prepared as a background for last month's FOMC meeting were accidentally published on its website on June 29. Since the information was made public, the Fed decided not to take down the notes and instead make them more easily...

Peter Schiff and Ron Insana can agree on one thing: The Federal Reserve probably won’t be able to raise interest rates in 2015. And that’s it. Finished. Done. Complete. From that point on, they disagree on practically everything else. But each has a wealth of knowledge on the...

Former Federal Reserve Senior Officer Thomas Simpson thinks that the Fed is finished with quantitative easing. Simpson is an economist and also been an officer for the Federal Open Market Committee. He recently joined Benzinga’s #PreMarket Prep to talk about why the Fed probably won...

Futures Rise Into Payrolls, Central Bank Guidance As Metals Plummet U.S. equity futures rose into the much anticipated Employment Situation Report. Non-Farm Payrolls are expected to have gained 161 thousand in June, below the pace set in May, but the unemployment rate is expected to tick down to 7...

Overnight, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept rates on hold for the second consecutive month after cutting its benchmark interest rate in May. The Bank has been easing policy in the face of slowing exports to China, which have weighed on growth and seen inflation slow. Rate Decision The RBA...

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) overnight issued its annual report in which it wrote a scathing review of global central banking policy. The BIS urged central bankers to reel in expansionary policies as delivering increasing amounts of stimulus becomes "increasingly perilous."...

Markets tumbled overnight on fears that China's slowdown will produce the much dreaded hard landing as economists at Goldman Sachs cut the growth forecasts for the emerging market economy. Chinese shares fell over 5 percent while copper tumbled to a new 2013 low on global growth fears. Slowing...

A decade after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke travelled to Japan and preached the benefits of reflationary policy to the Bank of Japan, it finally seems as though leaders at the Bank of Japan are heeding his call. With the latest moves overnight, the Bank of Japan, led by Governor Haruhiko...