Gold Silver Reports — Fed to Shrink Assets Next Month, Boost Rates by Year End | The Federal Reserve moved to dismantle a pillar of crisis-era support for the world’s biggest economy and stuck with its forecast to raise interest rates again this year, saying hurricane damage won’t derail an otherwise healthy expansion.
Gold Silver Reports — Gold Kiss One-Week High After Central Bankers’ Reports – Gold rose to its highest in more than a week on Monday as the dollar weakened and the euro powered ahead after the head of the European Central Bank refrained from talking down the single currency at a high-profile meeting of central bankers.
Gold Silver Reports — Gold gained for a second day as crude oil’s slump into a bear market revived fears inflation will continue to undershoot the Federal Reserve’s target, putting at risk policy makers’ projections for monetary tightening.
Gold Silver Reports — Federal Reserve officials forged ahead with an interest-rate increase and additional plans to tighten monetary policy despite growing concerns over weak inflation.
Gold Silver Reports — Fed to Leave $1 Trillion Question Unanswered in Big Bond Unwind — Janet Yellen’s Federal Reserve is getting ready to set off on a path toward a smaller balance sheet without knowing quite where it will end up.
Gold Silver Reports — Federal Reserve officials are widely expected to announce an interest-rate increase this week amid buoyancy in the stock market and indications the U.S. economy continues to grow steadily, without signaling they anticipate accelerating their pace of policy tightening.
Beyond the expected announcement Wednesday of a quarter-point hike in the U.S. central bank’s benchmark rate target, to a range of 0.75 percent to 1 percent, investors will be looking for whether policy makers change their forecasts for the rest of 2017 and beyond.
Gold Silver Reports — Gold Prices goes Against the Grain — What works for gold in practice rarely works in theory. The last three US interest rate increases that should, all other things being equal, be bad for the metal have seen prices jump in the months that followed.