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By Jeff Kearns and Joshua Zumbrun, Bloomberg |
May 22, 2013
Many Federal Reserve officials said more progress in the labor market is needed before deciding to slow the pace of asset purchases, according to minutes of their last meeting.
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By Anthony Lazzara |
May 22, 2013
The JUN13 E-mini S&P 500 rallied quick and hard this morning to 1685 upon the market digesting Bernanke’s testimony. Now the market is up 12.50 points to 1678.
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By Craig Torres, Bloomberg |
May 22, 2013
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said the U.S. economy remains hampered by high unemployment and government spending cuts, and tightening policy too soon would endanger the recovery.
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By Lu Wang and Inyoung Hwang, Bloomberg |
May 21, 2013
U.S. stocks rose, erasing earlier losses, after Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard said the central bank should continue its bond buying to boost growth that is slower than expected.
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By Michelle Jamrisko and Aki Ito, Bloomberg |
May 20, 2013
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans said the U.S. economy has improved “quite a lot” as the central bank maintains record stimulus.
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By Alexis Xydias, Bloomberg |
May 20, 2013
The most-indebted U.S. companies are rallying more than any time in almost four years compared with the rest of the stock market amid the broadest rally since at least 1995.
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By Justin Pugsley |
May 17, 2013
Central banks saved the world with unconventional monetary policies such as quantitative easing, which at the very least stopped the banking system from collapsing, but according to the IMF it's a policy that might be approaching its sell-by date.
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By Phil Flynn |
May 13, 2013
The oil market got heavy as word of a possible story of a Fed exit, which started to permeate the trading floor on Friday. The other issue is oil going down to the Gulf Coast and whether our production boom will overwhelm the refineries.
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By Craig Torres, Bloomberg |
May 10, 2013
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said risks persist in wholesale funding markets used frequently by Wall Street brokers to finance securities trading.
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By Joshua Zumbrun, Bloomberg |
May 9, 2013
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia President Charles Plosser said unemployment will probably fall to 7% at the end of 2013 and he would favor reducing the Fed’s $85 billion monthly pace of bond purchases next month.