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By Lisa Abramowicz, Bloomberg |
June 13, 2013
Wall Street’s biggest bond dealers are telling clients to shift from most fixed-income markets into U.S. stocks as deepening concern the Federal Reserve will pare unprecedented stimulus fuels the worst debt losses since 2011.
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By Glenys Sim |
June 4, 2013
Gold has dropped 16% this year as the dollar rallied on speculation the Fed may scale back asset purchases.
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By Steve Matthews and Aki Ito, Bloomberg |
June 3, 2013
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta President Dennis Lockhart said Fed officials are committed to record stimulus even as divergent views on when to start paring back bond purchases create a “mixed message” to investors.
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By Aki Ito, Bloomberg |
May 23, 2013
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President John Williams, emphasizing the need for policy flexibility, said any move to reduce the pace of the central bank’s bond buying could be followed by an increase should the economy weaken again.
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By Jeff Kearns and Joshua Zumbrun, Bloomberg |
May 22, 2013
Many Federal Reserve officials said more progress in the labor market is needed before deciding to slow the pace of asset purchases, according to minutes of their last meeting.
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By Michelle Jamrisko and Aki Ito, Bloomberg |
May 20, 2013
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans said the U.S. economy has improved “quite a lot” as the central bank maintains record stimulus.
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By Jeff Kearns, Bloomberg |
March 25, 2013
China’s slowdown last year probably didn’t exceed government reports, researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco said, differing from concerns voiced by some analysts about the accuracy of the official data.
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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 Caroline Salas Gage and Joshua Zumbrun, Bloomberg |
February 27, 2013
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said the central bank may decide to hold bonds on its $3.1 trillion balance sheet to maturity as part of a review of its strategy for an exit from record monetary easing.
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By Austin Kiddle |
January 11, 2013
Better than expected Chinese exports data cheered the stock, gold and commodities markets. In December, Chinese exports jumped 14.1%, compared to a forecast of 5%.
