(Reuters) -A largely untested Federal Reserve liquidity facility drew no demand at its first daily auction on Tuesday despite expectations on Wall Street for a scramble by banks to secure funding to cover the often-turbulent quarter-end period. New York Fed data showed no funds were drawn from its Standing Repo Facility, or SRF, which the Fed created in 2021 and allows eligible firms to quickly convert bonds into cash. A second daily operation is set to close at 1:45 p.m. ET, which could still see a deman ...

By Michael S. Derby NEW YORK (Reuters) -Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman reiterated on Friday that she believes decisive interest rate cuts are needed to ward off rising trouble in the job market. “Recent data show a materially more fragile labor market along with inflation that, excluding tariffs, has continued to hover not far above our target,” Bowman said in the text of a speech delivered before a gathering of the Forecasters Club of New York. Citing many months’ worth of ...