Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC)

SINGAPORE (Aug 26): The minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee’s July 31 meeting have indicated that the officials were widely divided in the US Federal Reserve’s decision to ease monetary policy.

SINGAPORE (July 1): In December 2015, the US Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the first time in a long while. This ended the unprecedented era of ultra-accommodative monetary policies deemed necessary to resuscitate economies after the 2008/09 gl

SINGAPORE (May 27): The US’ decision to include Huawei Technologies on its US Entity List has added fuel to the trade tensions between itself and China. 

SINGAPORE (Mar 21): The US Federal Reserve is widely expected to hike the federal funds rate by 25 basis points (bps) to between 1.5% and 1.75% tonight.

SINGAPORE (Feb 2): The Federal Open Market Committee, meeting for the last time under outgoing chair Janet Yellen, left the federal funds rate unchanged on Jan 31 while paving the way for rate hikes under Yellen’s successor Jerome Powell.

WASHINGTON (Aug 17): Federal Reserve officials are looking under the hood of their most basic inflation models and starting to ask if something is wrong.

WASHINGTON (June 15): Federal Reserve officials forged ahead with an interest-rate increase and additional plans to tighten monetary policy despite growing concerns over weak inflation.

SINGAPORE (March 21): Inflows into US-listed exchange-traded funds (ETFs) last week continued at a record pace even as the global stock market powered to a new high, according to DBS Group Research.

SINGAPORE (Jan 20): Daiwa Capital Markets says banking on Singapore banks could be investors’ best play amid global market jitters as Donald Trump begins his presidency on Jan 20.

WASHINGTON (Jan 5): Federal Reserve officials focused on the impact of potential fiscal stimulus during their December policy meeting, with many starting to worry that the central bank might eventually be forced to quicken the pace of interest-rate increa