Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller said he favored more monetary policy tightening to reduce persistently high inflation, although he said he was prepared to adjust his stance if needed if credit tightens more than expected.

Recent deposit flows raise questions about the Fed's support for these funds through its overnight lending facility, and whether that support is doing more harm than good.

The Cleveland Fed chief said she expects to make "some appreciable progress" toward taming price pressures in 2023, and estimates a closely watched gauge of inflation will reach 3.75% by the end of the year.

Throughout 2022, the California bank shed interest rate swaps that some believe could have prevented its failure.

The Federal Reserve wants a smaller balance sheet to help rein in inflation. But uncertainty in the banking system is pushing it in the opposite direction.

Economists have warned since last summer that speedy monetary tightening could be destabilizing. This week, the Federal Reserve will decide whether to stay on that course.

After the failure of two banks between $100 billion and $250 billion of assets, many are asking regulators to change their oversight practices for these banks. The Fed has a wide berth to make a wide array of changes.

One year after the Federal Reserve started frantically raising interest rates, the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank answered what had become perhaps the hottest question on Wall Street: When is something going to break?

Such a move would increase the ability of banks to keep up with demands from depositors to withdraw, without having to book losses by selling bonds and other assets that have deteriorated in value amid interest-rate increases — the dynamic that caused SVB to collapse on Friday. 

During his second day of congressional testimony this week, the Federal Reserve chair faced several questions about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's embattled funding mechanism.

Bond traders boosted bets that the Federal Reserve may re-accelerate the pace of rate increases at the policy meeting later this month.

"The committee is strongly committed to returning inflation to its 2% objective," the Fed said in its semi-annual report to Congress released Friday.

But even if plowing back into Treasuries proves to be a winning trade, sticking with it won't be for the faint of heart. 

Cleveland Fed president says the central bank is still raising rates to a level that's high enough to bring inflation down to the target.

The markets are looking for a Fed pivot, but central bankers continue to say more hikes are coming and rates will stay higher longer. OANDA's Ed Moya joins us after the meeting to give a comprehensive look at what the Fed signals for the future.

The central bank has raised rates aggressively for nearly a year, but experts believe the hiking cycle is nearly over.

The Federal Reserve Chair urged Congress to raise the debt ceiling, warning the impacts of not doing so could go beyond the central bank's ability to mitigate.

The Federal Reserve slowed its drive to rein in inflation and said further interest-rate hikes are in store as officials debate when to end their most aggressive tightening of credit in four decades.

Despite 2022's slew of interest-rate hikes from Chair Powell and colleagues, financial conditions are the loosest since last February as investors bet fading inflation will allow the central bank to soon cease raising borrowing costs and then cut them later this year.

Repo markets and the bank deposit business, in particular, would be upended if the U.S. were to default on its debt, experts say.