VIDEO: Westpac New Zealand Tests Google Glass App
Westpac New Zealand, a bank with a passion for wearables, is currently testing a version of its Cash Tank balance-checking ...
Month: March 2014
Financial Advice Portal Phroogal Wins First DEMOvation Challenge
The competition was stiff and the challenge itself was arduous, but after ten 6-minute demos to ten different audiences, Phroogal ...
The Challenge of Estimating Full Employment
Atlanta Fed President and CEO Dennis Lockhart, in a March 6 lecture at Georgetown University, talks about current economic conditions, ...
Deflation Probabilities Zero Percent
The 2013-18 deflation probability--based on the 5-year TIPS issued in April and the 10-year TIPS issued in July 2008--was 0 ...
Beige Book: Did Weather Cool the Nation’s Economic Growth?
Recent wintry conditions helped chill economic activity, according to the newest Beige Book. SouthPoint examines the ways Old Man Winter's ...
Economic and Financial Highlights: March 6, 2014
View the latest series of charts from our Economic and Financial Highlights page, including new data on Federal Reserve assets ...
Citi, US Bank & mBank Win 2014 Bank Innovation Awards
SEATTLE -- Three companies were awarded 2014 Bank Innovation Awards yesterday here for their noteworthy innovation accomplishments over the last ...
Getting data science on your executive agenda
In today’s business world with big talk about Big Data, more and more companies are looking into data science and ...
Beige Book–Winter Weather Affected Retail, Hospitality Sectors
Southeastern economic activity expanded slowly in early 2014, according to the latest Beige Book. Winter weather took a toll on ...
Trimmed-Mean Inflation Statistics: Just Hit the One in the Middle
Brent Meyer and Guhan Venkatu. Working Paper 2014-3 (March). Investigating trimmed-means inflation measures, the authors explore whether a particular measure ...
