Gary Siegel is a journalist with more than 35 years of experience. He started his professional career at the Long Island Journal newspapers based in Long Beach, N.Y., working his way up from reporter to Assistant Managing Editor. Siegel also worked for Prentice-Hall in Paramus, N.J., covering human resources issues. Siegel has been at The Bond Buyer since 1989, currently covering economic indicators and the Federal Reserve system.
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Still no clarity as the banking crisis adds to the difficulty of predicting an economy still feeling COVID impacts and uncertainty about the prospects for a recession.
By Gary SiegelApril 24 -
The reverberations from the Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank failures make the outcome of this week's Federal Open Market Committee meeting unpredictable.
By Gary SiegelMarch 20 -
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank clouds the economic landscape and complicates monetary policy decisions but it's a long way off from the troubles banks and broker-dealers faced in the 2008 financial crisis.
March 17 -
The recent bank failures have changed market thinking about the Federal Reserve's next move.
By Gary SiegelMarch 14 -
Analysts opine on the Federal Open Market Committee meeting, how high interest rates will go and when the first cut may happen.
By Gary SiegelJanuary 30 -
"I think the bond market is right, a recession is coming," said Liz Young, head of investment strategy at SoFi, "and the economic indicators reinforce that message."
By Gary SiegelJanuary 3 -
Some analysts see the Federal Reserve cutting rates in late 2023, but others expect no rate cuts before 2024.
By Gary SiegelDecember 28 -
The Fed chairman said he believes the Fed is getting close to a sufficiently restrictive level, but they're not quite there. While two good inflation reports are good, "there's still a long way to go to price stability."
December 14 -
Markets took the news that it will soon be appropriate to increase the Fed funds target rate at a slower pace as good news.
By Lynne FunkNovember 23 -
It appears to have been a good time to request bonds as most of the largest issues were approved.
By Gary SiegelNovember 9