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  Bernanke sidesteps immediate QE3, but not off the table

  By Press Release  |  August 31, 2012

  In the text of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's speech at Jackson Hole, he did not promise further immediate quantitative easing, but said the Fed could still accommodate if the economy warranted it.

• Swiss move masks bigger picture dollar bid

  By Andrew Wilkinson  |  September 6, 2011

  Daily forex update including analysis of dollar, euro, yen, pound, Aussie dollar and Canadian dollar

• Bernanke’s speech at Jackson Hole 2011

  By Press Release  |  August 26, 2011

  Transcript of Bernanke's 2011 Jackson Hole speech

• Dollar flexes muscles before Bernanke pep-talk

  By Andrew Wilkinson  |  August 26, 2011

  Daily forex update including analysis of dollar, euro, yen, pound, Aussie dollar and Canadian dollar

• Dollar weakens on expectation of QE3

  By Andrew Wilkinson  |  August 22, 2011

  Daily forex brief

• Did investors misread the Fed?

  By Andrew Wilkinson  |  August 10, 2011

  Daily forex update

• Fed maintains “extended period” language

  By Press Release  |  April 27, 2011

  The Federal Reserve maintained historically how interest rates in it's April meeting and kept its "extended period" language

• Fed to continue QE2 despite economic improvement

  By Press Release  |  January 27, 2011

  Fed's statement acknowleges higher commodity prices but says inflation is not a threat and will continue with QE2.

• Fed foresees continued slow growth

  By Press Release  |  December 14, 2010

  In its final statement of the year, the Fed's Open Market Committee (FOMC) called the economic recovery insufficient and left open further accommodation in 2011.

• Yuan drops in bid to strengthen export market

  By Phil Flynn  |  August 12, 2010

  The energy report for August 12.