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Mexico's steady stance contrasts with Brazil, where rates have been cut to record lows to counter an economic slowdown, and the United States, where the Federal Reserve last week said it would offer more stimulus.
The Federal Reserve this week decided to keep its key federal funds rate at 2.0% after having lowered it at each of its last seven policy meetings, stretching back to September, when the rate was 5.25%.
By historical standards policymakers are acting aggressively, as the Federal Reserve did this week.
The Federal Reserve reaffirmed last week that real interest rates will remain negative for the long haul.
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Jeffrey Lacker, head of the Richmond Federal Reserve, this week threw his weight behind the second option.
Factory output slipped in March, according to a Federal Reserve report last week.
Also, gold might try to hold its firmer tone ahead of the Federal Reserve confab next week in Jackson Hole, Wyo.
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Traders and investors are looking forward to the Jackson Hole, Wyoming U.S. Federal Reserve confab next week, and the mid-September FOMC meeting.
With the ongoing Greek debt drama dampening market activity and poor business forecasts from the Philadelphia and New York Federal Reserve banks this week, investors have begun to march into Treasuries once again.
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They are in better shape than others in the region, such as Australian banks, which have seen interbank funding costs soar, leading the Federal Reserve to open a dollar swap line this week with the Reserve Bank of Australia.
Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, said this week that the recession was probably over.
And it has the tailwind of another round of stimulus from the Federal Reserve just announced last week.
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Yet if profits are measured properly, as Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve, suggested last week, then the concerns may be masking some positive signs.
While markets seemed to have focused their attention on equities, Facebook, and financial scandals over the last couple of weeks, the Federal Reserve surprised many last week releasing a set of very dovish FOMC minutes.
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The Reserve Bank of Australia last week cut rates by half a percentage point.
The Federal Reserve slashed interest rates this week, and that made Wall Street happy.
His plan seemed to have worked since last week the Federal Reserve stress test results gave BofA a passing grade.
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Federal Reserve officials will meet next week to assess the economy, including whether or not to extend its bond-purchasing programme aimed at spurring growth.
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Last week the Federal Reserve laid out the ground rules for its 2013 Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) and revealed a significant change for the 19 banks subject to the test.
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However, some analysts have warned that a stock market bubble is being created and last week former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan warned that the Chinese stock market could undergo a dramatic correction.
The bank's president, Jean-Claude Trichet, has played down expectations of another rate increase, while forthcoming statements from U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke this week could heighten speculation that the dollar will get its own quarter-point rise before the year is out.
Last week, the Federal Reserve broke a relative silence on subprime and predatory lending.
This week, the Federal Reserve is holding its annual conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
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That is why this week's Federal Reserve decision was clearly, and rightly, driven in large part by October's unemployment figures.
Also next week, the Federal Reserve will release it Beige Book, which was prepared ahead of a Federal Open Market Committee meeting later this month.
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Even if the Federal Reserve does announce a QE3 this week, or at least hint at it, it is doing nothing but pushing off the inevitable.
Last week, the Federal Reserve cut interest rates for the seventh time since September but indicated it could be the last reduction for a while.
Investors in U.S. Treasurys will closely watch the Federal Reserve's policy statement this week, and any talk of reining in central-bank bond purchases could hit a nerve.
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