Markets are gearing up for the Fed's final policy meeting of the year. It's set to kick off tomorrow. And joining us ahead of that is Bill Dudley.He of course is the former New York Fed president. Bill, uh, welcome. It's great to see you this morning.The market is betting that we are going to see another 25 basis point rate cut. You think that that's the case. >> I think it's almost certainly the case.When John Williams went out and basically made the case for 25 basis points and no one else at the at the b ...

French President Emmanuel Macron called for a change in monetary policy approach at the European Central Bank to boost the single market and protect it from financial crisis risks. https://t.co/SxP5gYMz7x ...

The potential Fed chair has said that “monetary policy needs to be fully independent of political influence”, but his proximity to Donald Trump would be cause for concern https://t.co/q3PhlQeldT ...

Donald Trump’s main political problem is high prices, something that excessively loose monetary policy would make worse. And if the central bank’s independence were threatened, investors would revolt https://t.co/spsI7kJ1lU ...

President Trump uh says he's made his choice on the next Fed chair to replace Jay Pal, but he isn't making uh the name public just yet. Joining us now, former Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester. She's also a CNBC contributor.I I guess you don't um you probably don't want to tell us who you'd like uh Loretta, but what what type of person uh would you like to be the next head. >> Yeah, good morning, Joe. Hope you had a good holiday.>> I mean, we need somebody who's going to be a thoughtful leader who can ...

you think Kevin Hasset ultimately would be a good good choice whe when it comes to economic monetary policy market stability all all the important things for the Fed chair >> I think all five candidates on the short list um are qualified experienced and I think reduce the concern that we once had that you will get a purely political appointment >> cuz that that was the concern with Hasset and I have to say just based on my own reporting of talking to you know bank executives and and hedge funds executives t ...

JPMorgan Chase expects the dollar to soften next year on easier US monetary and fiscal policy, but cautioned that accelerated bets on future interest-rates hikes could challenge that view https://t.co/75VdNoopfk ...

ECB President Christine Lagarde warns against seeing monetary policy as a solution to debt problems https://t.co/MFH0xIh8t9 ...

Governor Martin, good morning. Good morning once again. Thanks for being here. Thanks for having me back.We've got to start with the labor market. Your reflections on what we saw yesterday. Does it lean one way or the other.Yeah, I mean, I think the implications of yesterday were obviously dovish. And if anyone was on the fence, I would hope that this would move them in the direction of cutting. I mean, you saw the unemployment rate edged up a bit.You know, you saw some other indicators like an increase in ...

We have reduced rates 50 basis points already through the the last couple of meetings. And so I think that we need to maintain a modestly a somewhat restrictive stance of policy um to make sure that we are continuing to bring inflation back down to our 2% objective. It's great that inflation expectations remain contained.Uh but that is a place that that I remain focused that we continue to bring inflation back down to target. And so right now to me uh monetary policy is barely restrictive if at all. And I t ...