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Janet Yellen says Biden's focus now is providing relief, not raising taxes

Yellen said she agreed that the 2017 corporate tax cut had improved the competitiveness of American businesses, and Biden was not proposing to raising corporate taxes to the pre-2017 level

Janet Yellen faces Senate to sell $1.9 trillion stimulus package

The Senate Finance Committee's 10 am hearing Tuesday is likely to feature topics from foreign-exchange policy to taxes

Wall Street opens higher ahead of Yellen speech; spotlight on earnings

Wall Street opens higher ahead of Yellen speech; spotlight on earnings

Treasury nominee Janet Yellen to say US does not seek weaker dollar: Report

The Treasury secretary nominee will make clear at a Senate confirmation hearing that the United States does not seek a weaker dollar

Will the bull keep running?

The global setting is perfect for equities, but investors should have one eye on factors that could rattle the markets

Team Biden: Janet Yellen-Katherine Tai touch on trade with India

This three-part series looks at how the US president-elect's squad could influence relations between the two countries

Joe Biden's White House team delights his supporters on Wall Street

The Biden team is poised to include alumni of finance, venture capital, private equity and asset management

What Janet Yellen must do

First on the agenda will be recovery from the pandemic. With multiple vaccines in sight, the immediate task is to build a bridge from here to the post-crisis economy

US facing historic crises again, says Treasury secy-nominee Janet Yellen

The United States is facing economic crises again and it is essential to move with urgency, Treasury Secretary-nominee Janet Yellen said

Yellen tasked with America's economic comeback as Biden's treasury pick

In Yellen, Biden will have a battle-tested policy maker who can draw on her nearly two decades at the Fed to help rebuild an economy in dire need of government cash and confidence

Trump administration gives nod to commence transition to Joe Biden

Key official designates President-elect Joe Biden as the apparent winner

Janet Yellen ending Trump dollar tumult promises cheers in markets

Yellen is seen returning clarity on the U.S. strong-dollar policy, stabilizing the $6.6-trillion-a-day currency market that's the backbone of global finance and commerce

President-elect Joe Biden taps ex-Fed chair Janet Yellen to lead treasury

Yellen, who is widely admired in the financial world, would be the first woman to lead the Treasury Department in a line stretching back to Alexander Hamilton in 1789

Janet Yellen says fight against inequality starts with full employment

Most of the discontent with capitalism in the US stems from inequality and the stagnation of wages, which dates back to the 1980s and can be traced broadly to automation and globalization, Yellen said

After Fed term, Janet Yellen to start new innings at Washington think-tank

Yellen's term as Fed chair will expire on February 3

Recovery 'increasingly broad based' in both US and worldwide, says Yellen

Stock indexes, bond yields and the dollar were all higher in initial trading

Yellen announces resignation; will leave Fed once successor sworn-in

Yellen said she would "do my utmost" to make sure of a smooth transition to Jerome Powell, who was tapped by Trump on November 2 to become the next Fed leader

Yellen defends legacy amid uncertainty

Yellen and her predecessor Ben Bernanke were heavily criticised by Republicans in Congress for bloating the Fed's balance sheet with $3.5 trillion in Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities

Janet Yellen says watching inflation closely but economy is strong

The US central bank voted to hold interest rates steady at its last policy meeting in September

Watching inflation closely but economy is strong, says Janet Yellen

US central bank voted to hold interest rates steady at its last policy meeting in September