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By Aki Ito, Bloomberg |
May 23, 2013
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President John Williams, emphasizing the need for policy flexibility, said any move to reduce the pace of the central bank’s bond buying could be followed by an increase should the economy weaken again.
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By J.W. Jones |
May 23, 2013
Instead of trying to determine how or when the Federal Reserve will taper or end their monetary experiment, we wanted to juxtapose statements that were made today with the actual facts. Readers can draw their own conclusions.
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By Anthony Lazzara |
May 23, 2013
Crude oil has had some consistent selling over the past few sessions, and is down again today to $93.12. We have our key pivot/decision level at $96.
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By James Ramelli |
May 23, 2013
With most of the Fed members still in Bernanke’s corner and the pattern of dip buying this year, many traders may look at this sell-off as an opportunity to buy into this market. What is the most effective way they can do so?
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By Phil Flynn |
May 23, 2013
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke does his best impression of a one-handed economist. But while the market focuses of the possibility of softening demand because of the Fed and China there was one area where demand actually improved...
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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.
