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11Federal Open Market Committee — ( FOMC) The body that is responsible for setting the interest rates and credit policies of the Federal Reserve System. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary * * * Federal Open Market Committee ˌFederal ˌOpen ˈMarket Comˌmittee abbreviation FOMC noun… …
12the Federal Open Market Committee — UK US noun (ABBREVIATION the FOMC) FINANCE, GOVERNMENT ► a group of twelve people who are responsible for making decisions relating to interest and credit rates for the Federal Reserve System: »Recent rate decisions by the Federal Open Market… …
13Federal Open Market Committee Meeting - FOMC Meeting — The meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) that occurs eight times a year. In the FOMC meeting, the FOMC, consisting of 12 members, determines near term monetary policy. The changes that are decided on, are announced immediately… …
14Open Mouth Operations — Open mouthed operations are speculative measures taken by the Federal Reserve to influence interest rates and inflation through the sale or purchase of U.S Treasury bonds. Open mouth operations can be thought of as the central bank announcements… …
15OPEN — Period (OPEN) The period that defines when the trading service is opened. London Stock Exchange Glossary * * * ▪ I. open open 1 [ˈəʊpən ǁ ˈoʊ ] adjective [not before a noun] 1. COMMERCE if a shop, bank, restaurant etc is open, it is allowing… …
16Federal Open Market Committee - FOMC — The branch of the Federal Reserve Board that determines the direction of monetary policy. The FOMC is composed of the board of governors, which has seven members, and five reserve bank presidents. The president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New… …
17Market monetarism — The Market monetarism school of macroeconomics advocates that central banks target the level of nominal income instead of inflation, unemployment or other measures of economic activity, including in times of shocks such as the bursting of the… …
18open — 1) The first price of the day for a contract on a securities or futures exchange. Futures exchanges post opening ranges for daily trading. Due to the fast moving operation of futures markets, this range of closely related prices allows market… …
19market — Usually refers to the equity market. The market went down today means that the value of the stock market dropped that day. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary * * * ▪ I. market mar‧ket 1 [ˈmɑːkt ǁ ˈmɑːr ] noun 1. [countable] COMMERCE the activity of… …
20market — marketer, n. /mahr kit/, n. 1. an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers market. 2. a store for the sale of food: a meat market. 3. a meeting of people for selling and… …
