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Financial Conditions Tightest in 15 Years, Fed Says

The Fed is researching new ways to measure financial conditions and how they’re related to economic growth.

“Worst performance in 15 years” was the judgment of a half dozen researchers at the Federal Reserve when it came to financial conditions that could reduce economic growth.

The researchers were working on a new financial conditions index (FCI), a category of metric that is supposed to reflect what can be known from a collection of financial variables. The intent is to create a single number that can succinctly reflect a broad view of the economy, like the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago’s National Financial Conditions Index or the Bloomberg FCI.

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