Bullard: Rates may still need to rise another half-point this year
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Federal Reserve may still need to raise its benchmark interest rate by another half-point this year, St. Louis Fed President James Bullard said, suggesting that any decision to…
St. Louis Fed’s Bullard says rate increase this week was good ‘next step’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The quarter point rate increase approved by the Federal Reserve this week was “a good next step” in the fight against inflation, St. Louis Fed President James Bullard said…
Exclusive-Fed’s Bullard discounts recession talk, favors more rate hikes
By Howard Schneider ST. LOUIS (Reuters) – The U.S. central bank should continue raising interest rates on the back of recent data showing inflation remains persistent while the broader economy seems poised…
Bullard calls on Fed to get inflation under control this year
(Reuters) – The Federal Reserve needs to get inflation on to a sustainable path down toward its 2% goal this year or else risk a repeat of the 1970s, when interest rates…
Fed’s Bullard: Further rate increases would “lock in” disinflation
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Continued Federal Reserve rate increases will “lock in” slowing inflation even with continued economic growth, St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard said on Thursday. Bullard…
Fed’s Bullard urges colleagues not to “stall” on remaining rate increases
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – St. Louis Fed President James Bullard said Wednesday that U.S. Federal Reserve policymakers should get the policy rate of interest above 5% “as quickly as we can” before pausing…
Bullard: Up to Chair Powell to decide size of rate increases at upcoming meetings
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – St. Louis Fed President James Bullard on Thursday said he would defer to Chair Jerome Powell to decide on the size of upcoming rate increases as the Fed feels…
Fed’s Bullard, Evans, show two paths to the same policy rate
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Charles Evans and James Bullard are the U.S. Federal Reserve’s longest-serving monetary policymakers, a pair of PhD economists who’ve been at the center of central bank…
Fed’s Bullard says boost to dollar from interest rate hikes may ease
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Federal Reserve’s rapid interest rate increases have contributed to the strength of the dollar against other currencies, but that may ease once the U.S. central bank reaches the point…
Bullard: Recession a risk, but more on a global than U.S. basis
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Rapid U.S. interest rate increases have raised the risk of a recession, but it is likely to be caused by an outside shock rather than from a collapse of…
Fed’s Bullard: Inflation likely to be more persistent than expected
(Reuters) – St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard on Thursday said he expects high inflation to be more persistent than many have been expecting and interest rates now are not yet…
Fed’s Bullard: Rates will need to be ‘higher for longer’ if inflation does not recede
(Reuters) – If inflation does not respond to the Federal Reserve’s interest rate increases by easing as expected, then rates will have to remain “higher for longer,” St. Louis Federal Reserve President…
Fed’s Bullard: ‘Relatively soft landing’ feasible for Fed, ECB
(Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank may both be able to execute a “relatively soft landing” that avoids a harsh recession for their respective economies as they…
Fed’s Bullard says policy rate should be at least 3.75% by end of 2022
(Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Reserve should target a policy rate in the range of 3.75% to 4% by the end of this year in light of this week’s hotter-than-expected inflation data,…
Fed’s Bullard favors 75 basis point hike in July over 100 for now – Nikkei
(Reuters) – St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard would prefer to lift interest rates by 75 basis points at the central bank’s next meeting later this month, telling the Japanese news…
Fed’s Bullard: ‘good chance’ for a soft landing
(Reuters) – St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President James Bullard on Thursday said he sees a “good chance” the central bank will engineer a soft landing for the economy, meaning that it…
Fed’s Bullard sees continued U.S. economic growth
(Reuters) – The U.S. economy is expected to continue to grow this year even as the Federal Reserve raises interest rates sharply to bring down unacceptably high inflation, St. Louis Fed President…
Fed’s Bullard: high inflation ‘straining’ credibility
(Reuters) – Inflation at levels last seen in the 1970s and early 1980s is putting the U.S. central bank’s credibility at risk, St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President James Bullard said on…
Bullard: April inflation ‘hot’ but does not see 75 bp Fed rate increase ‘for now’
(Reuters) – U.S. April inflation at 8.3% remained “hot” but does not yet require the Federal Reserve to switch to three-quarter point rate increases, St. Louis Fed President James Bullard said on…
Fed’s Bullard wants to get rates up to 3.5% by year end
(Reuters) – U.S. inflation is “far too high,” St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President James Bullard said on Monday as he repeated his case for increasing interest rates to 3.5% by the…
Bullard: Improvement in labor force not happening fast enough to ease inflation
(Reuters) – The U.S. labor force is not increasing fast enough to help with the Fed’s immediate battle with inflation, St. Louis Fed president James Bullard said Thursday, discounting the hope that…
Bullard: High inflation means Fed must think bigger, faster
By Ann Saphir – St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President James Bullard on Wednesday said U.S. policymakers need to think “bigger” and act “faster” on raising interest rates, given that inflation is…
Fed’s Bullard sees three successive hikes to start policy tightening
By Ann Saphir and Howard Schneider -St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard on Tuesday said he favors starting the turn to tighter U.S. monetary policy with successive rate increases at the…
Fed’s Bullard says unemployment rate can go below 3% this year
NEW YORK -St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President James Bullard said he sees the unemployment rate falling below 3% this year, a jobless rate the U.S. economy last seen in the early…
Fed’s Bullard does not think a half-point rate hike ‘really helps us’ -Reuters interview
– St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard on Tuesday said he favors lifting rates at the U.S. central bank’s meeting in March and likely again in May, but he pushed back…
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