Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke reclaimed the title — after a rare upset — as the central bank's market mover based on the monetary policy speeches he gave last year, former Fed governor Laurence Meyer told CNBC on Friday.
Meyer, co-founder of Macroeconomic Advisers, looked at every speech made by Fed policymakers last year and the effect they had on the 10-year Treasury yield — instead of the 2-year yield, as in past years, because it's been "pinned down by the FOMC's increasingly explicit funds-rate guidance," he wrote in his Fixed Income Focus commentary.