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Kovacevich: Market Will React Negatively if Fed Doesn’t Hike Rates in December

Richard Kovacevich, former Wells Fargo chairman and CEO, joins ‘Power Lunch’ to share his reactions to the Fed’s decision to not raise hikes, market predictions and why he thinks the …

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Fed Clearly Has in Mind that Inflation and Tight Labor Markets Follow on Another, Says Expert

Austan Goolsbee, University of Chicago Booth School of Business professor and former Council of Economic Advisors chair, discusses the state of the U.S. economy as the Fed wraps up its …

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Ed Has No Urgent Need to Raise Rates, Says the Lindsey Group CEO

Larry Lindsey of The Lindsey Group joins ‘Power Lunch’ to discuss the midterms impact on the market and what the Fed could factor into its rate hike decision.…

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Rupkey Says Pace of Fed Hikes Depends on Unemployment Data

Chris Rupkey, chief financial economist at MUFG Union Bank in New York, discusses the dollar, Federal Reserve policy, and the U.S. economy on “Bloomberg Surveillance.”…

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E.U. Watchdog Says Shortcomings in Bank Stress Test Need Fixing

By Huw Jones
November 15, 2018, Reuters

Shortcomings in the European Union’s stress test for banks could be fixed by including elements from the Federal Reserve’s health check of lenders’ …

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The Disputed Terrain of Model Risk Scoring

By Steve Marlin
November 15, 2018, Risk

As banks lean ever more heavily on models – for pricing, risk, capital and other vitals – their boards are demanding a clear …

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Fed’s Signal for ‘Gradual’ Rate Increases Was Boring, but the Right Move: Fmr. Dallas Fed President

Richard Fisher, former Dallas Fed president, and Jim Grant, founder and editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, discusses the market’s mild reaction after the Fed said further gradual rate increases …

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U.S. G-SIBs Cut $36bn of HQLA

By Louie Woodall
November 14, 2018, Risk Quantum

Large U.S. banks have shed $36 billion of high quality liquid assets (HQLA) year to date, with government sponsored entity (GSE) debt …

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Maxine Waters Says Easing Banking Regulations ‘Will Come to an End’ When She Takes Committee Chair

By Jeff Cox
November 14, 2018, CNBC

Rep. Maxine Waters, poised to take over the powerful House Financial Services Committee when the new Congress convenes in January, laid down the …

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Fed’s Brainard Wary of Black Box AI Models in Consumer Credit

By Dan DeFrancesco
November 14, 2018, Risk

U.S. Federal Reserve governor Lael Brainard has urged banks to tread carefully when using machine learning (ML) techniques, which have become notorious for …