John Williams, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, spoke with Yahoo Finance on July 16 to discuss the U.S. economic outlook and what may lie ahead for Fed policy. BRIAN CHEUNG: Joining us now is the president of the New York Federal Reserve – that is John Williams. John how are you? JOHN WILLIAMS: Great Brian, good to see you. BRIAN CHEUNG: Good to see you too. So let’s just get right into it. I want to ask about the economic outlook, we did get numbers this morning on retail… Source link

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On this episode of Yahoo Finance Presents, Federal Reserve Bank of New York President & CEO John Williams sat down with Yahoo Finance’s Brian Cheung, to discuss a sweeping variety of topics, including interest rates, yield curve control, corporate bond purchases, liquidity, the Fed’s $7 trillion balance sheet, and many others. Source link

New York Fed President John Williams said Thursday that the Federal Reserve is far from raising interest rates, adding that central bank policymakers have time to craft any forward guidance on future policy. “This is not the time to think about liftoff or normalization,” Williams told Yahoo Finance in an exclusive interview. Minutes from the Fed’s most recent policy-setting meeting on June 9 and 10 noted that Fed officials have been debating whether or not to offer forward guidance on… Source link

ESPN is “extremely disappointed” after a person recorded a video feed of a private conversation involving “The Jump” host Rachel Nichols. An anonymous party sent Deadspin four clips of that conversation hoping to “expose” Nichols as a “back-stabber.” Nichols’ conversation reportedly lasted 30 minutes, though Deadspin received only four minutes of edited footage. Since Deadspin received only one side of the conversation, the site declined to reveal the specifics of the call,… Source link

Google prefers ranking content from YouTube over other video sources, according to a new report in the Wall Street Journal. When Facebook and other competitors host a video that also appears on YouTube, Google will allegedly push the YouTube result ahead of others in search results. The Wall Street Journal claims tests show YouTube ends up first in the Google Search video carousel more often than not. Further, YouTube results frequently take up most of the slots in Google’s video… Source link

The U.S. had another near-record spike in coronavirus cases, with more than 71,000 newly reported cases pushing the country’s total to 3.5 million cases, prompting a growing number of major corporations to enforce masking in their establishments. The global pandemic surpassed 13.5 million cases Thursday, with more than 584,000 dead, proof of acceleration of the outbreak in recent weeks. As fall approaches for the northern hemisphere, concerns about a second wave are emerging. Trailing not… Source link

CEO of Google Cloud, Thomas Kurian Google A lot has changed since last year’s in-person Google Cloud Next. For the first time, Google Cloud Next is “in the cloud” on recorded video led by Google and Alphabet Inc CEO Sundar Pichai and Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian. Right off the bat, Sundar pointed out three trends we will see regarding the cloud: the future will be more digital, collaborative, and more flexible. I don’t think anybody can disagree… Source link

Attorney General William Barr on Thursday said U.S. technology companies including Apple and Google have been “all too willing” to collaborate with China’s Communist Party, as he tore into that country’s leaders in a fiery speech. Speaking at the Gerald Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, Mich., Barr said that “over the years, corporations such as Google GOOG, -0.66% GOOGL, -0.91%, Microsoft MSFT,

Google’s latest experiment is a video shopping platform designed to introduce consumers to new products in under 90 seconds. The company today is launching Shoploop, a project from Google’s internal R&D division, Area 120, where it tests out new ideas with a public user base. Shoploop’s founder, Lax Poojary, had previously worked on online trip planner, Touring Bird, also at Area 120. Last year, that effort became one of a small number of R&D projects to graduate and become a part… Source link