Tag: chair-janet
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Wall Street’s gains fade as Yellen questions economy’s resilience
(Reuters) – U.S. stocks ended little changed on Friday, losing ground late after Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's comments on the economy unnerved investors.
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Yellen says Fed rate hike likely appropriate in coming months
The Federal Reserve should raise interest rates “in the coming months” if the economy picks up as expected and jobs continue to be generated, U.S. central bank chief Janet Yellen said on Friday, bolstering the case for a rate increase in June or July. “It's appropriate … for the Fed to gradually and cautiously increase…
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Yellen faces tough sell on Fed rate hikes in Congress
By Jonathan Spicer and Ann Saphir WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen will defend the U.S. central bank's first rate hike in a decade and likely insist that further rises this year remain on track, albeit at a slower pace, when she addresses Congress on Wednesday. Yellen, who is certain to be…
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Wall Street veterans say rate-hike past is not prologue for markets
By Trevor Hunnicutt NEW YORK (Reuters) – It has only been six years since the U.S. stock market rout brought on by the financial crisis, but as far as Deena Katz's clients are concerned, that might as well be ancient history. “People have a thirty-second memory,” said Katz, 65, co-chairman at Evensky & Katz/Foldes Financial…