Next on Janet Yellen's to-do list: Winding down a $4.5T balance sheet

On Friday's menu: What's next on Yellen's to-do list. Plus: Small-cap stock weakness as a leading indicator, an SEC official dishes on PE funds, big banks are loving big mortgages, three finance questions you better be able to answer, and getting by on $6,000 an hour.

JUN 18, 2014

By Jeff Benjamin

As the Fed winds down its bond-buying program, Janet Yellen confronts the awkward issue of overseeing a $4.5 trillion balance sheet, which was at $800 billion before the financial crisis. It's on her to-do list. Waiting for the policy-normalizing process
Is the weakness among small-cap stocks suggesting the start of something very bad? Trouble looms beneath the surface
An SEC official's candid portrayal of widespread law-breaking within the private equity industry. Investors are blinding themselves to the risks of being ripped off. More than half the audited firms violated securities laws
Wells Fargo, JPMorgan and Bank of America home in on the jumbo mortgage market. Leveraging relationships
Three basic finance questions that half the world can't answer correctly, and that's not a good thing. A mind is a terrible thing to waste
In a blatant attempt to pander to the wage-gap crowd, enjoy this list of 10 CEOs making more than $6,000 an hour. No word on whether they also get free parking. No wonder Starbucks coffee costs so much

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Next on Janet Yellen's to-do list: Winding down a $4.5T balance sheet

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