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The article reports that the U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) has created a committee to be on the lookout for threats to financial stability. Fed officials Daniel Tarullo, Stanley Fischer, and Lael Brainard will serve on the panel, to which the Fed's Office of Financial Stability Policy and Research will report. Potential risks to the financial system has been an area of increased concern for Fed chairwoman Janet Yellen.

The article discusses comments about the U.S. economy delivered on March 31, 2014 by U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) Chairwoman Janet Yellen. She cited the high number of long-term unemployed workers in the U.S. along with sluggish wage growth in suggesting the Fed would keep interest rates low for an extended period of time. She also said the Fed's interest-rate policy would help the U.S. housing market.

The article discusses challenges facing Janet Yellen following her January 6, 2014 confirmation by the U.S. Senate to succeed Ben Bernanke as chairman of the Federal Reserve (Fed). She will have to assess whether the U.S. economy is strong enough for the Fed to continue scaling back its bond-purchasing program. Democrats in the Senate said they will also expect Yellen to safeguard the financial system against any systemic failures.

The article explains why the central bank withheld data from the U.S. Congress about an internal Federal Reserve investigation into an apparent leak in 2012, according to statements issued by Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen in June 2015.

The article reports that the investigation into an alleged leak of confidential monetary-policy plans in 2012 has focused on U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's meetings with financial firms in 2011 and 2012.

The article focuses on challenges awaiting U.S. Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen as she and her colleagues discuss the possibility of increasing interest rates starting in June 2015, which is a decision that depends on their assessment of the U.S. economy's strength to support such a move.

The article discusses the U.S. Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen's address during a conference on economic opportunity and inequality sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Massachusetts regarding the widening of wealth and income disparity in the U.S.

The article discusses the annual central-bank economic symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and held in Jackson Hole, Wyoming with mention of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board chairwoman Janet Yellen's indecision on when the Reserve will increase short-term interest rates.

The article discusses a July 2014 policy meeting where various U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) officials reportedly debated whether they might need to raise interest rates sooner than expected as a result of the alleged strengthening of America's economy, focusing on Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen's views.

The article discusses U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) Chairwoman Janet Yellen's reported decision in July 2014 to push back against the notion that the Fed should consider raising interest rates to avoid future financial crises, focusing on an International Monetary Fund meeting in Washington, D.C.

The article reports that chairwomen of the U.S. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Janet Yellen, and Board member Daniel Tarullo testified before a Senate panel on May 8, 2014 the need for risk analysis of nonbanks whose failure could potential hurt the U.S. financial system.

The article discusses U.S. Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen's decision to put the agency's policy plans on hold as of February 28, 2014, focusing on Yellen's claim that bad weather may be responsible for a soft patch of economic data in terms of retail sales and housing-related information.

The article discusses the U.S. Federal Reserve's (Fed's) response to the global financial crisis of 2008-2009 as revealed by transcripts released on February 21, 2014 of several Fed meetings during 2008. Details show how then-Fed chairman Ben Bernanke came to support aggressive interventionist measures including assistance to help banking company J. P. Morgan Chase & Co. buy investment bank Bear Stearns. He was generally supported by his successor, Janet Yellen.