Federal Open Market Committee

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  Operation Twist: Is the Fed Offering Solutions or Empty Gestures?

  By Robert Bloink, Esq., LL.M., William H. Byrnes, Esq.  |  October 5, 2011

  Out of options, the Fed is desperately looking for a way out of the current economic slowdown.

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  Fed Tackles Long-Term Rates to Spur Economy

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  September 21, 2011

  The Fed said it would buy $400 billion of longer-term U.S. Treasury securities to put downward pressure on longer-term interest rates and 'help make broader financial conditions more accommodative.'

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  Fed’s ‘Operation Twist’ Offers Bond Investment Opportunities

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  September 21, 2011

  What does the Fed's "Operation Twist" easy-monetary policy move mean for bond investors? Here’s a roundup of what the strategists are saying about opportunities in the fixed-income market.

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  4 Ways Fed Can Take Action: Stone & McCarthy Report

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  September 20, 2011

  The Fed this week will likely add further stimulus to the U.S. economy, say Stone & McCarthy Research Associates in a report that lays out the policymakers’ four options for taking action.

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  FOMC Minutes Show Some Dissension at Fed After S&P’s U.S. Debt Downgrade

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  August 30, 2011

  Minutes from the Fed's Aug. 9 meeting that monetary policy makers were fully aware of the volatile global markets and issues surrounding the S&P downgrade of U.S. debt when they announced they will keep interest rates low through mid-2013.

• Fed’s Hoenig: Forget the Economy, Focus on Finances

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  August 25, 2011

  One day before policymakers meet in Jackson Hole, Wyo. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City President Thomas Hoenig said there’s only so much the central bank can do to help the economy, and that the policy should pivot to focus on the country’s fiscal problems.

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  5 Best Quotes From Wild Market Month—So Far

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  August 12, 2011

  As investors suffered market whiplash in August, Bill Gross, Jeremy Grantham and others made insightful, if not depressing, comments about the economic implications stemming from the debt ceiling debacle and the S&P downgrade.

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  Fed Announcement Helps U.S. Stocks Rebound

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  August 9, 2011

  U.S. stocks surged Tuesday after Federal Reserve policymakers announced that they planned to keep rates in a very low range for the next two years.