Quantitative Easing, as a Federal Reserve Policy, was an attempt to do several things.
Nothing in the preceding discussion is intended as a prescription for Federal Reserve policy.
The Federal Reserve policy makes U.S. bonds a less attractive investment for the Chinese.
News of economic contraction may weigh on Federal Reserve policy makers, who are meeting this week.
The gains for U.S. stock index futures also came ahead of the conclusion of a two-day Federal Reserve policy meeting.
For now, Federal Reserve policy-setters have indicated that they envision the federal-funds rate remaining at extremely low levels until late 2014.
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At some point, Federal Reserve policy will have to change from trying to stimulate the economy to being more focused on controlling inflation.
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However, money is a powerful force in the economy, and Federal Reserve policy errors can frustrate even the best efforts of American workers and investors.
Grasshoppers are doing better than ants under current Federal Reserve policy.
The coming week brings potentially market-moving events such as a Federal Reserve policy meeting and a handful of high-profile economic data, including the closely watched monthly jobs report.
The numbers are impacted by current Federal Reserve policy and valuations can stay out of whack for an extended period of time, but they do favor owning stocks.
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Federal Reserve policy-setters, in their post-meeting statement, left interest rates unchanged and said they would continue with purchases of Treasury and mortgage-backed securities meant to push down long-term interest rates.
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By February 2005, a confused Greenspan admitted the fact that yields on 10-year Treasury securities kept falling even as he and fellow Federal Reserve policy makers kept raising short-term rates.
But 4% is still a heckuva lot better than the 1.6% annualized real return bonds had the last time (1952-1962) we were stuck with historic low bond yields courtesy of Federal Reserve policy.
Those two dissents had the unintended and unanticipated effect of having critics of Federal Reserve policy consider me their ally inside the Fed, whether their complaint was the same as mine or not.
Investors are looking to the release later in the day of a transcript of last month's Federal Reserve policy meeting for insights into the Fed's latest views on the health of the U.S. economy.
Meanwhile, U.S. Federal Reserve policy-setters acknowledged in a statement Tuesday that economic conditions remain soft and they intend to leave interest rates at record low levels until mid-2013, which analysts have described as supportive for gold.
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Against a backdrop of Federal Reserve policy, lackluster U.S. economic growth and periodic market panics over the European debt crisis, and signs of an economic slowdown in China, yields on 10-year Treasurys have hit levels previously thought almost impossibly low.
The market is pegging 30-year inflation at a slightly higher 2.0 percent rate, which is the spread between long-term 30-year Treasury nominal bonds and 30-year TIPS. Federal Reserve policy to increase the money supply has not led to inflation during this recovery because the demand for money has been lower than in other recoveries when inflation did occur.
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We keep hearing that Federal Reserve monetary policy will lead to the demise of paper money.
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Federal Reserve monetary policy errors caused the housing bubble and precipitated the housing bust.
Traders and investors will scrutinize the minutes for clues regarding upcoming Federal Reserve monetary policy moves.
The bond crowd just pushed out its forecast for changes in Federal Reserve Board policy emphasis from yearend 2011 to yearend 2012.
Federal Reserve Bard policy emphasis on free money needs to change first.
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They are the reciprocal of Federal Reserve Board policy emphasis, bar none.
Next week the big factor for the financial markets, metals included, will be the two-day Federal Reserve monetary policy meeting, set for Sept. 20-21.
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Federal Reserve monetary policy acts as an economic traffic cop.
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The re-election of President Obama means a greater likelihood of continuity in U.S. Federal Reserve monetary policy, including a continuation of the bond-buying program known as quantitative easing, said Anne-Laure Tremblay, precious-metals strategist at BNP Paribas.
Markets will also be paying attention to the Federal Reserve's policy statement coming out later Wednesday.
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