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By Steve Matthews and Jeff Kearns |
April 25, 2013
Debate among Federal Reserve policy makers is shifting away from the timing of a reduction in bond buying to the need to extend record stimulus as inflation cools and 11.7 million Americans remain jobless.
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By Stephen Kirkland and Inyoung Hwang, Bloomberg |
April 17, 2013
Global stocks fell amid losses in industrial metals and disappointing earnings from Bank of America Corp. and others. The euro weakened as Germany’s central bank chief Jens Weidmann reportedly said European policy makers may cut rates if needed.
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By Susanne Walker and Neal Armstrong, Bloomberg |
April 17, 2013
Treasuries rose, pushing 10-year note yields to almost a four-month low, as a decline in stocks and commodities fueled demand for the safest assets.
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By Simon Kennedy and Steve Matthews |
April 16, 2013
The slump in gold may hand activist central bankers more reasons to pursue continued easy monetary policy.
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By Joshua Zumbrun, Bloomberg |
April 8, 2013
During the past three years, the Fed planned to cut accommodation early in the year only to boost it after economic growth lagged behind its forecasts. This time, Federal Reserve policy makers are prepared for the summertime slump.
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By Jeff Kearns, Kathleen Hays and Joshua Zumbrun, Bloomberg |
April 4, 2013
Two Federal Reserve officials said they need to see stronger job growth before backing a slower pace of bond purchases as they sought to clarify the level of improvement in the labor market they are seeking.
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By Steven K. Beckner |
April 1, 2013
Concern has been growing among Federal Reserve officials that the Fed’s low interest rate policies are causing excessive risk-taking in search of higher yields, but that doesn’t mean the Fed is about to abandon its employment goals.
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By Sarah Pringle and Corinne Gretler, Bloomberg |
March 1, 2013
U.S. stocks erased losses, after an early decline in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, as better-than-estimated data on consumer confidence and manufacturing tempered impending federal spending cuts.
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By Joshua Zumbrun, Jeff Kearns and Catarina Saraiva, Bloomberg |
January 29, 2013
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke’s latest round of bond buying will reach $1.14 trillion before he ends the program in the first quarter of 2014, according to median estimates in a Bloomberg survey of economists.
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By Phil Flynn |
January 15, 2013
Chicago Fed President Charles Evans and cold weather boosted the petroleum markets. The sector is being led by European gas oil which is driving heating oil higher.
