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In the United States, the Federal Reserve has cut interest rates by half a percentage point in a bid to shore up the economy and financial markets amid all the coronavirus panic.
In an unexpected move, US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says he will keep to keep its monetary stimulus programme in place, with stock markets hitting record highs in response.
The FBI arrests a man in connection with a plot to bomb New York’s Federal Reserve bank, according to reports from the United States.
With the US apparently heading for political gridlock, the attention of the financial markets turns to an anticipated mega injection of cash by the US Federal Reserve, writes Neil MacDonald.
The US Federal Reserve says it will “do all that it can” to prevent a double-dip recession as US growth is revised sharply lower. David Blanchflower explains how this threatens UK economic growth.
The FSA has issued a remarkable detailed account of a phone call by Tim Geithner, then head of the US Federal Reserve, to the FSA chairman about an embryonic attempt by Barclays to buy pre-bankruptcy Lehman Brothers, writes Faisal Islam.
Former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker and Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein on the wisdom of allowing big banks to fail.
A beginner’s guide to our current financial situation.
As Covid-19 continues to spread in the U.S, most states are closing schools and the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention has told people not to gather in groups of more than 50.
It’s not clear we can lay the credit or blame for the latest inflation figures at the government’s door.
President Trump has insisted the US economy is doing “tremendously well”, despite market fears that a recession could be on the way, partly because of a trade war with China started by the President himself.
Helia Ebrahimi
The BNP Paribas announcement turned out to be the starting gun to the global financial crisis.
In the last hour, America’s Federal Reserve has raised its benchmark interest rate for the second time in three months, a sign that the US economy is growing healthier.
Like every good whodunit, the Bitcoin saga has a good deal of intrigue and drama. And sometimes, the odd bit of misdirection too.
Exclusive: as inflation drops to 0.5 per cent, we reveal the contents of Bank of England Governor Mark Carney’s explanatory letter to the chancellor (as imagined by Paul Mason).