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By Inyoung Hwang and Whitney Kisling, Bloomberg |
April 17, 2013
Ten days of pessimism flared into gold’s worst rout since 1980 this week, with selling so strong it knocked the world’s third-biggest exchange-traded fund further below its asset value than any time in a year.
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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 Anna-Louise Jackson and Anthony Feld, Bloomberg |
April 12, 2013
Companies sensitive to changes in the yield on 10-year Treasury notes are leading the market, suggesting that some equity investors have been premature in anticipating higher interest rates.
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By Lorraine Woellert, Craig Torres and Cheyenne Hopkins, Bloomberg |
April 10, 2013
Banks including Citigroup Inc. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc., along with congressional staff members and trade groups, received potentially market-moving Federal Reserve information 19 hours before the public.
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By Debarati Roy, Bloomberg |
April 10, 2013
Gold futures fell the most since November after Cyprus said it plans to sell the metal to raise money, while minutes from a Federal Reserve meeting spurred speculation that stimulus will be curbed.
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By Anthony Lazzara |
April 10, 2013
The market apparently took the FOMC minutes positively, perhaps finding solace in the Fed’s increasingly positive views of the economy, and thus stocks are having good sized rallies today. The S&P 500 broke its all-time high today.
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By Jeff Kearns and Joshua Zumbrun, Bloomberg |
April 10, 2013
Several Federal Reserve officials said the central bank should begin tapering its quantitative easing program later this year and stop it by year end, minutes of their March meeting showed.
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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 Joseph Ciolli, Bloomberg |
April 5, 2013
The dollar declined to the lowest level in more than a week against the euro after U.S. employers added fewer jobs in March than forecast, fueling speculation growth in the world’s biggest economy is slowing.
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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.
