James Saft

(Reuters) - Keeping your word is hard, and people simply hate it when you don't, something that central bankers enamored of the vogue for "forward guidance" may soon learn. The...

(Reuters) - Better economic data has pushed a tapering of bond buying by the Federal Reserve higher up the agenda - even as early as next week. A taper may...

(Reuters) - On the standards by which these things are judged, Janet Yellen's confirmation hearings went well, meaning markets rallied with little volatility. Speaking before the U.S. Senate Banking Committee,...

(James Saft is a Reuters columnist. The opinions expressed are his own) (Reuters) - Toyota's sparkling earnings show how Abenomics may be good for Japanese companies now, but perhaps a...

(Reuters) - Alan Greenspan says stocks are heading higher. Margin debt is at an all-time nominal high with investors borrowing another 5 percent against their brokerage accounts last month alone....

(Reuters) - That creaking sound you hear just might be the Chinese export-driven economy model about to break. While most of the world's attention is focused on the interminable and...

(Reuters) - The Yellen era will feature more of the same: the same monetary policy and the same unanswered questions. Appointed today as Ben Bernanke's successor as Fed chief, Janet...

(Reuters) - After ebbing for most of the year, correlations are creeping back into financial markets. Many investors, especially stock pickers, hoped they'd seen the last of "risk-on, risk-off", a...

(Reuters) - Investors fearing the impact of an attack on Syria ought to start worrying instead about things they can predict and control. In other words - and with apologies...