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By Joshua Zumbrun and Jeff Kearns, Bloomberg |
June 7, 2012
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said the economy is at risk from Europe’s debt crisis and the prospect of fiscal tightening in the U.S., while refraining from discussing steps the central bank might take to protect the expansion.
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By Lorraine Woellert, Bloomberg |
June 7, 2012
Fewer Americans applied for unemployment insurance payments last week, indicating limited progress in the labor market after a two-month slowdown in hiring.
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By Rodney Jefferson and Aki Ito, Bloomberg |
June 5, 2012
Richard Fisher, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, said further bond purchases would do little to aid the U.S. economy while fueling perceptions the central bank is encouraging government spending
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By Joshua Zumbrun and Jeff Kearns, Bloomberg |
April 24, 2012
The Federal Reserve tried to bring more clarity to policy making in January by releasing Fed officials’ forecasts for interest rates. Instead, it may be creating confusion.
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By David J. Lynch, Bloomberg |
April 16, 2012
Two years after President Barack Obama vowed to eliminate the danger of financial institutions becoming “too big to fail,” the nation’s largest banks are bigger than they were before the nation’s credit markets seized up.
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By Daniel Kruger and Lucy Meakin, Bloomberg |
March 6, 2012
Treasuries rose, pushing 10-year note yields to the lowest level in almost a week, as concern Europe’s sovereign-debt crisis will weigh on global growth spurred demand for a refuge.
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By Susanne Walker and Daniel Kruger, Bloomberg |
March 5, 2012
Treasuries fell after an index of U.S. service industries grew at its fastest in a year, renewing bets the economic recovery is taking hold, and as Greece said it expected private creditors to accept its debt-swap terms.
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By Aki Ito and Steve Matthews, Bloomberg |
March 5, 2012
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Richard Fisher said he opposes additional Fed purchases of securities and urged Wall Street to get ready to become less dependent on monetary easing.
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By Jon Nadler |
February 29, 2012
Daily metals update including analysis of gold and silver
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By Steven K. Beckner |
October 1, 2011
With the economy teetering on the edge of another recession, the Federal Reserve’s policymaking Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is riven with dissension, agnosticism and uncertainty about its own potency
