THURSDAY’S WASHINGTON SCHEDULES
WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – The following are Thursday’s schedules for the White House, Treasury, the Capitol and upcoming economic data: The White House DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORTHURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2021 In the morning, the President and the Vice President will receive the President’s Daily Brief in the Oval Office. This meeting is closed […]
FED’S EVANS TO REPORTERS: WANT TO SEE DATA SHOWING INFLATION ACTUALLY GOING UP
By Steven K. Beckner (MaceNews) – Chicago Federal Reserve Bank President Charles Evans said Wednesday evening that he and his colleagues will be putting much more emphasis on “contemporaneous data” than on economic projections in deciding when to start reducing the pace of Fed asset purchases. Evans, a 2021 voting member of the Fed’s policy-making […]
ITALY: DRAGHI TASKED WITH FORMING UNITY GOVERNMENT; ‘CONFIDENT’ PARTIES WILL JOIN
By Silvia Marchetti ROME (MaceNews) – Former European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi was handed on Wednesday the mandate to form a new government by Italy’s head of state Sergio Mattarella and put an end to Italy’s political crisis. “It’s a difficult moment. There’s a dramatic health crisis, which requires adequate responses in defeating the […]