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Hoenig: US economy will "weather this storm"

Thomas Hoenig, the president of the Kansas City Federal Reserve and the only member of the Federal Open Market Committee to vote against the 31 October rate cut, said that he thought the effects of the credit crunch were unlikely to spread very far.

What we learn from the Fed's projections

As we look at the first of the Federal Reserve's enhanced economic projections, it is important to understand what they are and what they are not, says Stephen Cecchetti, the Rosenberg Professor of Global Finance at Brandeis International Business School.

The trip to transparency

The Fed's decision to increase the frequency and volume of its economic projections is another welcome step towards transparency under Ben Bernanke's stewardship. But it still has a way to go before catching up to the other major central banks, says…

US subprime conditions set to worsen - Kroszner

Randall Kroszner, a governor of the Federal Reserve, warned on Friday that conditions in the US mortgage market had yet to reach rock bottom. Speaking in New York, Kroszner said that there were two reasons why he believed market conditions would worsen:…

Scrap agencies' role in Basel: ex-UK rate-setter

Basel II needs to go back to the drawing board before it is even out of the blocks because of rating agencies' influence in the framework, says Willem Buiter, a former member of the Bank of England's monetary policy committee, now a professor at the…

The only way is down

Avinash Persaud, the chairman of Intelligence Capital, a financial advisory firm, predicts the dollar will drop to $1.70 against the euro and $2.20 against sterling before central banks intervene.

Fed finally gives Basel II the green light

The Federal Reserve Board on Friday approved the American version of the Basel II framework on risk-based capital requirements. It is the last of the Group of Ten countries, which developed the framework, to do so.

Qatar may not track Fed moves

In comments that throw the future of a currency union in the Gulf in further doubt, the governor of the Qatari central bank has suggested the central bank could deviate from its usual practice of shadowing the Fed's monetary policy decisions.

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