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The Bank of England said that it will continually review its forecasting framework and has made it flexible enough to change its central model if needed, according to a research paper published by the central bank today.
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Bank of England policy maker Ben Broadbent said the central banks’ projection errors in the wake of the financial crisis are understandable given the inevitable limits of economic forecasting.
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The Federal Reserve Board said David Stockton , its head of U.S. economic research and forecasting since 2000, is retiring Sept. 30 after three decades at the central bank.
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The Bank of England said it hasn’t decided whether to provide forward guidance for monetary policy as it published a response to reviews of its operations commissioned by its governing body.
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David Stockton, the former top economic forecaster for Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and former chairman Alan Greenspan, has joined Macroeconomic Advisers LLC as a senior adviser.
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The Bank of England’s forecasting capabilities have deteriorated in the past five years, resulting in “large” errors, and officials should investigate the reasons for such shortcomings, an independent review said today.
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The Federal Reserve Board said David Stockton , its head of U.S. economic research and forecasting since 2000, is retiring Sept. 30 after three decades at the central bank.
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Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and his Federal Reserve colleagues are preparing to meet next week as two-year Treasury yields near a record low signal a U.S. economy on the knife’s edge between growth and contraction.
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The world’s biggest investors say the rout that erased $1 trillion from the value of global equities after President Barack Obama was re-elected overlooks the fact that the world economy is improving while U.S. leaders start discussions that may avoid the so-called fiscal cliff.
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It was December 2007, the month the U.S. economy fell into a recession that was to last 18 months. The residential real estate market, two years past its prime, was starting to fray. The yield curve, the leadingest of the leading indicators, had been inverted for 1.5 years, warning of recession. Yet at the Federal Reserve, recession wasn't even in the forecast, according to transcripts of the 2007 meetings released today.
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