SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The United States has escaped the danger of a Japanese-style deflationary trap, but it is not yet time to start tightening policy, St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President James Bullard told the Financial Times. Bullard said in an interview published on Monday that his preoccupation throughout 2009 had ...

The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting minutes were released a couple minutes ago, sending the market sharply lower.Nothing about the commentary was terribly surprising.  They cited improvement in the direction of the economy, and said that the fed funds rate would remain ...

Federal Reserve members expressed concern at a policy meeting last month that unemployment would "remain elevated for quite some time," and limit economic growth, minutes released Wednesday showed. The minutes from the December 15-16 Federal Open Market Committee showed a range of economic views from central bank policymakers and staff ...