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By Hans Nichols, Bloomberg |
March 22, 2013
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said he’s “spoken to the president a bit” about his future and that he feels no personal responsibility to stay at the helm until the Fed winds down its unprecedented policies to stimulate the economy.
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By Phil Flynn |
March 21, 2013
Oil reacted to a bullish weekly Energy Information Administration report right after the Fed seemed to get out of the way.
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By Lu Wang and Sarah Pringle, Bloomberg |
March 20, 2013
U.S. stocks rose, snapping a three- day decline in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, as the Federal Reserve will keep up its bond buying to stimulate the economy and euro-area leaders weighed options for Cyprus.
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By Jeff Kearns and Joshua Zumbrun, Bloomberg |
March 20, 2013
The Federal Reserve will keep up its bond buying at a pace of $85 billion a month even as the world’s largest economy and the job market pick up.
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By Lu Wang and Sarah Pringle, Bloomberg |
March 19, 2013
U.S. stock futures rose, following a two-day slide for the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, as new home construction increased and investors awaited the start of a Federal Reserve meeting.
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By Justin Pugsley |
March 13, 2013
U.S. and Japanese central bank quantitative easing programs are placing China between a rock and a hard place in which a revaluation of the Chinese yuan vs. the U.S. dollar may turn out to be the least bad solution.
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By Caroline Salas Gage and Joshua Zumbrun, Bloomberg |
March 11, 2013
When Ben S. Bernanke asserted last month that the Federal Reserve doesn’t ever have to sell assets, he raised questions about how the central bank can withdraw its record monetary stimulus without stoking inflation.
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By Mikael Holter, Bloomberg |
March 11, 2013
Norway’s $713 billion sovereign wealth fund is turning away from the world’s biggest currencies and their debt-laden governments as policy makers undermine their exchange rates through unprecedented stimulus measures.
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By Liz Capo McCormick, Bloomberg |
March 8, 2013
Bill Gross, manager of the world’s biggest bond fund, said the larger-than-forecast increase in U.S. employment last month won’t prompt the Federal Reserve to alter the central bank’s stimulus measures.
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By Justin Pugsley |
March 8, 2013
Masaaki Shirakawa chaired his last monetary policy meeting this week as governor of the Bank of Japan. What follows now could be the next big leg down in the JPY exchange rate.
