The Latest Breaking News from Minneapolis Fed

What you need to know… The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) Tuesday closed down -1.12%, the Dow Jones Industrials Index ($DOWI ) (DIA ) closed down -0.69% and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IU XX) (QQQ ) closed down -1.28%. Stock indexes Monday posted moderate losses as U.S. debt...

The dollar index (DXY00 ) on Tuesday rose by +0.31% and posted a 2-month high. Hawkish comments Tuesday from Minneapolis Fed President Kashkari pushed the 10-year T-note yield up to a 2-1/4 month high and strengthened the dollar’s interest rate differentials. Also, weakness in stocks boosted the liquidity demand for...

“Not all of these stresses are behind us," warns Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari, the former administrator of the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

"All things being equal, that means we'd have to do more with our other tools," Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari says.

A new survey from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis suggests strong farm incomes so far this year, even with the higher cost of inputs, like fertilizer.