St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard expressed confidence that the central bank can beat inflation and advocated Wednesday for stepping up the pace in the battle. Bullard told CNBC that a...
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Bullard Bites The Bulls As Mester Messes With Risk On Sentiment, Week In Review
China Last Night KraneShares Week in Review It was another choppy week of trading for Asian equities as investors assess their risk tolerance considering the potential for two or more rate hikes from ...
Fed’s Bullard Says Falling Money Supply a Good Sign on Inflation
(Bloomberg) — A sharp decline in the M2 measure of the US money supply could be good news for policymakers in their efforts to bring high inflation under control, St. Louis Fed President James B...
Fed’s Bullard Says Markets Underestimating Chances of Higher Rates
(Bloomberg) — Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard said financial markets are underestimating the chances that policymakers will need to be more aggressive next year in rais...
Did Bullard undershoot? Stifel economists say fed funds rate may need to go to 8% or even 9%.
A day after a Federal Reserve official’s market-moving admission that interest rates may need to go to as high as 7%, analysts came up with an even more surprising conclusion: that 7% still won’t be h...
Treasury curve inverts further below zero after Fed’s Bullard produces 5%-7% estimates for fed-funds rate
The spread between 2- TMUBMUSD02Y, 4.462% and 10-year Treasury yields TMUBMUSD10Y, 3.776% inverted more deeply on Thursday, shrinking to as little as minus 70.5 basis points, after a Federal Reserve p...
Bullard Says Strong Job Market Gives Fed Room to Raise Rates
(Bloomberg) — Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard said the strong US labor market gives the central bank room to raise interest rates so it can curb inflation that’s runnin...
Fed’s Bullard Sees 2023 Shift With End of Front-Loading Hikes
(Bloomberg) — Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard said he expects the central bank to end its ‘’front-loading” of aggressive interest-rate hikes by early next year and shif...
Fed’s Bullard Leaves Open Possibility of Larger December Hike
(Bloomberg) — Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard left open the possibility that the central bank would raise interest rates by 75 basis points at each of its next two meet...
Interest rates should go up another 150 bps this year: Bullard
The U.S. economy has already plunged into a “technical” recession but James Bullard does not expect the central bank to pivot anytime soon. Inflation will take time to return to 2.0% The President of ...
Fed’s Bullard sees more interest rate hikes ahead and no U.S. recession
St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard said Wednesday that the central bank will continue raising rates until it sees compelling evidence that inflation is falling. The central bank officia...
Fed’s James Bullard expresses confidence that the economy can achieve a ‘soft landing’
James Bullard Olivia Michael | CNBC St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard said Tuesday that he still thinks the economy can avoid a recession, even though he expects the central bank will ...
Fed’s Bullard Raises Target for Year-End Funds Rate
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard said Friday that unexpectedly high inflation calls for a more aggressive path of short-term interest rate rises this year. Inflation “has come...
Fed’s James Bullard Says 0.75-Point July Rate Rise Is Likely
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard said he is ready to follow the U.S. central bank’s supersize June rate rise with the same thing at the end of this month. “Our goal has been t...
Fed officials Waller and Bullard back another big interest rate increase in July
The Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building in Washington, D.C. Sarah Silbiger | Reuters The Federal Reserve is well on its way to another sharp interest rate hike in July and perhaps Septem...
Fed’s Bullard Sees 3.5% Rates Setting Up Cuts in 2023 or ‘24
(Bloomberg) — Sign up for the New Economy Daily newsletter, follow us @economics and subscribe to our podcast. Most Read from Bloomberg Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard ...
Fed’s Bullard Says Front-Loading Could Lead to Rate Cuts by 2023
(Bloomberg) — Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard said the central bank should front-load an aggressive series of interest-rate hikes to push rates to 3.5% at year’s end, w...
Fed’s Bullard Wants to Raise Bank Rate to 3.5% by Year’s End, Hints at 75 Basis Point Rate Hike – Bitcoin News
The 12th president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, James Bullard, thinks the U.S. central bank can increase the benchmark bank interest rate by 75 basis points this year. Bullard believes th...
Fed’s Bullard says interest rate policy is ‘behind the curve’ but ‘all is not lost’
James Bullard Olivia Michael | CNBC The Federal Reserve needs to raise interest rates substantially to control inflation but may not be as “behind the curve” as it appears, St. Louis Fed P...
St. Louis Fed’s Bullard says the central bank should raise rates above 3% this year
James Bullard David Orrell | CNBC St. Louis Fed President James Bullard said Friday he thinks the central bank should raise interest rates the equivalent of 12 times this year to convince the public i...
Fed’s Bullard says inflation ‘could get out of control’ so action is needed now
James Bullard Olivia Michael | CNBC NEW YORK — St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard cautioned Thursday that without central bank action on interest rates, inflation could become an even m...
Opinion: Opinion: What Bullard got wrong about a 7% fed funds (and why he said it anyway)
An influential Federal Reserve official briefly spooked the stock SPX, -0.31% and bond TMUBMUSD10Y, 3.769% markets on Thursday by warning that the central bank may have to raise interest rates much fu...