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Despite a string of events that has seemed to push the central bank into a more dovish posture, a December hike now seems inevitable.
"I felt that was the kind of job where you had to be alert," said Yellen.
The volatile market provides opportunities for stock pickers to find value rather than just chasing the indexes, two money managers say.
U.S. government debt yields held steady on Wednesday after a government report showed no change to consumer prices across the month of November.
Former President George W. Bush says in a new documentary about the financial crisis that the bank deal that stemmed from Warren Buffett's call may have helped avert a depression.
The corporate debt scaring policy experts like former Fed Chair Janet Yellen isn't throwing too much of a fright into market participants.
"They have yet to put enough nuts in the tree before winter comes," says former Dallas Fed president Richard Fisher.
Former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen told an audience in New York City Monday night that she fears there could be another financial crisis.
Former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen is worried about excessive leveraged lending and the high level of corporate debt across Wall Street.
Jim Cramer has been critical of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell ever since his comments on Oct. 3 that were a "long way" from so-called neutral.
Richard Fisher, a senior advisor at Barclays and former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, says his "biggest fear right now" is bad credit in Europe impacting the United States.
"The only thing that really worries me about the economy right now is what the Fed is doing," says the "Trumponomics" co-author.
Tightening financial conditions and intensified skittishness over trade will cause the Federal Reserve to follow a less aggressive path when it comes to hiking rates, according to Goldman Sachs.
Jim Cramer says panic will reign on Wall Street if the Federal Reserve chooses not to raise interest rates in December.
St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard says the central bank could consider postponing its widely anticipated December rate hike by one month because of an inverted yield curve.
President Trump has "a lot of experience as a businessman and an investor; so he knows his stuff," says Larry Kudlow, director of Trump's National Economic Council.
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