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Investigations conducted in 2017 showed nearly 40 percent of content by far-right Facebook pages and 19 percent of far-left pages were false or misleading. [87] In the 10 months leading up to the 2016 presidential election , 20 fake news articles shared on Facebook dramatically increased from 3 million shares, reactions, and comments to nearly ...
It’s been a little more than a year since the Fed last increased the fed funds rate for the 11th time in the current rate cycle, which remains at a range of 5.25-5.50 percent. After being in an ...
Fed Up is a 2014 American documentary film directed, written and produced by Stephanie Soechtig. [1] The film focuses on the causes of obesity in the US, presenting evidence showing large quantities of sugar in processed foods are an overlooked root of the problem, and points to the monied lobbying power of "Big Sugar" in blocking attempts to enact policies to address the issue.
The Board for some time set a zero reserve requirement for banks with eligible deposits up to $16 million, 3% for banks up to $122.3 million, and 10% thereafter. The total removal of reserve requirements followed the Federal Reserve's shift to an "ample-reserves" system, in which the Federal Reserve Banks pay member banks interest on excess ...
Assuming you put in $100 into an S&P 500 index fund a decade ago, you’d have around $334.21 today, assuming you reinvested all dividends. The return equals 12.39% per year — and in this case ...
Unemployment has been holding below 4 percent for the longest stretch of time since the 1960s but has recently started creeping up, hitting a two-year high of 3.9 percent in February.
The Federal Reserve System (often shortened to the Federal Reserve, or simply the Fed) is the central banking system of the United States.It was created on December 23, 1913, with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, after a series of financial panics (particularly the panic of 1907) led to the desire for central control of the monetary system in order to alleviate financial crises.
The Federal Open Market Committee action known as Operation Twist (named for the twist dance craze of the time [1]) began in 1961. The intent was to flatten the yield curve in order to promote capital inflows and strengthen the dollar. The Fed utilized open market operations to shorten the maturity of public debt in the open market.