Sentence examples for Federal Reserve from inspiring English sources

For me the lull before the storm was illustrated by the complacent attitude of the Federal Reserve's vice-chairman Stanley Fischer, in his question and answer session after the annual Per Jacobsson lecture – not least when he dismissed that great central banking veteran Paul Volcker's call for a more structured international financial system.

When the Wall Street Journal tallied up 700 economic predictions made by 14 members of the Federal Reserve between 2009 and 2012, Yellen was ahead of the entire field.

So would Citigroup, which made $7.5bn in 2012 – a third of JP Morgan's haul – and only paid back its 2008 bailout this year; Citi is still such a work in progress that the Federal Reserve still won't allow the bank to give its investors dividends.

The Queensland government will submit a new application to the federal environment minister Greg Hunt for the dredging proposal, centred on the "T2" site, previously abandoned by BHP.

CGI Federal also told the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in a memo that it could not get access to computer logs that would have pinpointed potential problems.

The report responds to lawmakers, mainly Republicans, who have argued that federal authorities must do much more to strengthen enforcement before Congress can consider any legalization for an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the country.

In a letter handed out by activists to managers at each Shell station, John Sauven, executive director of Greenpeace UK, wrote: "28 activists and two journalists remain in detention after the seizure of our ship Arctic Sunrise by armed Russian Federal Security Bureau agents.

Two sons of the former Labor powerbroker Eddie Obeid are being investigated by the federal competition watchdog over alleged "cartel conduct" in securing a coal exploration licence over an area that included the Obeid family's farm.

The good news was already "baked in," an analyst tells Reuters: U.S. stock index futures fell Thursday as investors digested a deal agreed by lawmakers in Washington a day earlier to reopen the federal government and raise the debt ceiling in order to avoid a debt default.

After 16 days of government closure, Congress acted late Wednesday to reopen federal parks and offices and resume federal services.

In the summer of 2007, she was one of the first at Federal Open Market Committee [FOMC] meetings to caution that the subprime mortgage crisis would lead to a recession, while others appeared more concerned about inflation.