How the Fed Moves Markets: Central Bank Analysis for the Modern Era

Central banks have a profound impact on financial markets, and investors struggle to keep informed about their complex policy decisions. Technological and financial developments have transformed the US Federal Reserve Bank from a financial black box into a vocal, increasingly transparent institution—and the result is such a wealth of textual data that clues to future policy decisions may be lost among the details.

This book presents a solution to this problem by keeping track of those detail...