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Interest Rates

• US: H15 0.98 2014-12-05 FRB 30-year inflation indexed Treasury constant maturity
• US: H15 0.12 2014-12-05 FRB 1-month nonfinancial commercial paper
• US: H15 2.06 2014-12-05 FRB 7-year Treasury constant maturity
• US: H15 0.12 2014-12-05 FRB 2-month nonfinancial commercial paper
• US: H15 2.43 2014-12-05 FRB 10-year swap rate

Trade (FTC)

• FTC Requests Public Comment on Community Health Systems’ Application to Approve Sale of Riverview Regional Medical Center to Prime Healthcare
  The Federal Trade Commission is currently accepting public comments on an application by Community Health Systems to sell Riverview Regional Medical Center and its associated assets near Gadsden, Alabama, as required under the FTC’s April 2014 final order settling charges that CHS’s acquisition of rival health system Health Management Associates, Inc. would […]

Commerce News

• Remarks by Assistant Secretary Strickling at the PLI/FCBA Telecommunications Policy & Regulation Institute
  Topics/Subtopics:  500 MHz Initiative Broadband Technology Opportunities Program IANA functions Spectrum Management Broadband Internet Policy Domain Name System Grants December 04, 2014 Remarks by Lawrence E. Strickling Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information PLI/FCBA Telecommunications Policy & Regulation Institute Washington, […]

Small Business News

Monetary Policy

• Federal Reserve announces results of offering of seven-day term deposits on December 1
• Federal Reserve offers seven-day term deposits through its Term Deposit Facility
• Minutes of the Board's discount rates meetings for October 6 and October 27, 2014

Cost Estimates

• The Economic and Budgetary Effects of Producing Oil and Natural Gas From Shale
  CBO estimates that the development of shale resources will increase GDP by about two-thirds of 1 percent in 2020 and about 1 percent in 2040; the increases in GDP will lead to slightly larger percentage increases in federal revenues. […]
• H.R. 5059, the Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention for American Veterans Act
  As posted on the website of the House Committee on Rules on December 5, 2014 […]
• Monthly Budget Review for November 2014
  The federal government’s budget deficit was $181 billion for the first two months of fiscal year 2015, $45 billion less than the shortfall recorded in October and November of last year, CBO estimates. […]

Banking

• Comptroller Discusses the Supervision of Federal Branches and Agencies of Foreign Banks
  Comptroller of the Currency Thomas J. Curry today discussed the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's approach to supervising federal branches and agencies of foreign banks.