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Between a high-profile bank failure and the memory of the Fed trading scandal, “calls to break up the Fed or audit the Fed could reemerge,” Gardner said.

Dallas Fed President Lorie Logan and San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly both stated that the increase in Treasury yields could mean less need for the Fed to raise rates in the current tightening cycle.

This is in line with comments from other US Federal Reserve officials: San Francisco Fed President Mary Daley and Atlanta Fed President Rafael Bostic are insisting that the US Fed will hold rates higher for a longer period of time.

The next Fed meeting is December 11th and the markets are expecting the Fed to not change the Fed Funds rate.

Activity in fed funds—used by banks and government-backed lenders to exchange cash reserves parked at the Fed—surged throughout the past year when the central bank raised at the fastest pace in decades.

And that I think fed through the entire Silicon Valley Tech type system, which I think also fed into the arrogance of the management of Silicon Valley Bank.

As measured by the Chicago Fed’s National Financial Conditions Index, things have tightened up from where they were prior to the Fed’s first rate hike last year, but after peaking in early October, a distinct loosening has since transpired.

But because Logan ran the New York Fed’s bond portfolio for years before she took the top job at the Dallas Fed, her views on what’s driving long-term rates higher could carry considerable weight as policymakers weigh their next moves.

Central banks come back into the spotlight in the week ahead, and while the Fed is all but certain to maintain the Fed Funds rate at its current 5.50% upper bound in this meeting, the focus will be on the outlook for future rate hikes.

Fed Chair Jerome Powell also said in a press conference last week that the Fed would be "monitoring market conditions carefully" as the Treasury refills its balance.

Fed's Daly: Core services inflation hasn't come down yet as the Fed would like.

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Fed's O'Neill will speak Friday, and text of NY Fed Williams speech will be released.

Gold and silver took a tumble mid-week when Fed Chair Powell, in his prepared remarks to Congress, said the Fed was prepared to increase the pace of rate hikes and to a higher-than-expected level should incoming data continued to show strength.

However, the minutes of the Fed’s July FOMC meeting hint at more interest rate hikes in the near term. A majority of central bank officials are in favor of further interest rate hikes as inflation remains elevated and well above the Fed’s 2% target.

It’s counterproductive because financial conditions, which ultimately is what the Fed targets, eased much more than the Fed would like.

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On Friday Fed's Waller gave the issue the most recent goose to the upside when he said the Fed was not making progress on inflation and that there was room for further rate hike's (as in plural).

Randal Quarles, who preceded Barr as the Fed’s vice chair for supervision, in 2019 then pushed to loosen some of the Fed’s bank regulations, including by exempting smaller banks from some capital requirements.