Topic: Federal Reserve Bank Of San Francisco

Fed outlook changes with new members

If Chairman Ben Bernanke decides the economy needs more help from the Federal Reserve this year, he probably won't face as much resistance as he ...

Fed's No. 2 sees room for further monetary easing

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Janet Yellen, the Federal Reserve's influential vice chair, said on Tuesday the U.S. central bank has room to ease monetary policy further, possibly by providing more information on the path of interest rates.Another top official, Atlanta ...

Odds Of U.S. Recession: Above 50%

Just about every time that the United States produces an upbeat economic report, you'll hear a chorus of relieved economists and other observers...

Chance of 2012 U.S. recession tops 50 percent: Fed paper

(Reuters) - The European debt crisis is raising the odds of a U.S. recession, with economic contraction more likely than not by early 2012, according to research from the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank.While it is difficult to gauge the odds ...

Chance of 2012 US recession tops 50 percent - Fed paper

(Reuters) - The European debt crisis is raising the odds of a U.S. recession, with economic contraction more likely than not by early 2012, according to research from the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank.While it is difficult to gauge the odds ...
Baby boomers, one of the largest groups to invest in the stock market over the past 30 years, will start to sell their portfolios as they retire...
Given that thoughts of high structural unemployment continue to emerge in Fed thinking, the topic bears ongoing scrutiny. Especially so for me...

Per-person consumption down $7,300 during slump

0 Number of the day . $7,300. . That's how much money the economy has lost in per-person consumption since the current slump began in December...

Consumer inflation fears up? Not a worry, SF Fed says

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Increasing consumer anxiety that prices are broadly on the rise should not trigger an inflation-fighting response from the U.S. Federal Reserve, according to research Monday from the San Francisco Fed.That's because consumers are not particularly good at ...
California reported its April jobs data on Friday. The LA Times repeated the figure, laid out in the report from EDD, that on a year-over-year...