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October 13, 2010

Gold Hits Record As Fed Signal Sinks Dollar

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LONDON — Gold surged to a record high at $1367.65 an ounce on Wednesday and silver to a 30-year peak after the Federal Reserve signalled the US economy may [...]

November 05, 2010

Italy's Schiavone Warns Lower

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Francesca Schiavone has warned the USA they will face an even stronger Italy team than the one that triumphed last year in this weekend's Fed Cup final. [...]

October 12, 2010

CORRECT: OIL FUTURES: Nymex Crude Falls Ahead Of Fed Minutes

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("OIL FUTURES: Nymex Crude Falls Ahead Of Fed Minutes," published Tuesday at 10:43 am EDT, mischaracterized the relationship between oil and the dollar. [...]

November 10, 2010

The US Fed's Greatest Show On Earth

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Last week, our own central bank - the US Federal Reserve - announced that it would print up another $600 billion. This will bring the total to $2.3 trillion [...]

November 05, 2010

GLOBAL MARKETS: European Stocks Cautious Ahead Of Payrolls

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Although global equity markets rallied sharply on the Fed's latest QE program, the pace was not maintained Friday and traders took advantage of the rally to [...]

December 02, 2010

Targeting The Fed

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To prop up the sagging economic recovery, the Federal Reserve announced last month that it would purchase $600 billion of long-term government debt in an [...]

November 10, 2010

Government, Scars From Housing Bubble Both Raising Unemployment

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The San Francisco Fed estimates that the unemployment rate would be about 9 percent without extended benefits. Second, the median duration of unemployment [...]

November 11, 2010

No Credit For A Fed Whose Predecessor Got No Blame

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Ben S. Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, left, with the former Fed chairman, Alan Greenspan, at a conference on the history of the Fed in Georgia [...]

November 04, 2010

US Stocks Soar After Fed Move, Strong Retailer Sales

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The Federal Reserve's decision on Wednesday to pump an additional 600 billion dollars into the economy to stimulate a tepid recovery had spurred gains on [...]

November 09, 2010

China's Dagong Lowers US Credit Rating On Fed Monetary Policy

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The credit outlook for the US is “negative,” as the Fed's plan to buy government debt will erode the value of the dollar and “entirely encroaches” on the [...]

September 22, 2010

Euro Hits 5

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NEW YORK ? The euro continued to surge against the dollar, hitting a five-month high above $1.34 Wednesday after the Federal Reserve reinforced its message [...]

August 10, 2010

Marc Faber: The Fed Will Create A Final Crisis

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Marc Faber, a noted Swiss investor and economist of the Austrian school, says that the Federal Reserve is underestimating the fundamental strengths of the U.S. economy, and has no idea what it's doing, reports CNBC. The result, says Faber, will [...]

November 07, 2010

Ben Bernanke's QE2 Is Misguided

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Starting this month, and continuing up until mid-2011, the Fed intends to buy $600bn of US treasury bonds in the open market. This programme will be known [...]

November 03, 2010

U.S. Stocks Gain Before Fed Meeting, Election Results: Video

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US stocks rose, sending benchmark indexes to six-month highs, as investors awaited the Federal Reserve's plans to bolster the recovery and an election [...]

November 08, 2010

Russia Wants Fed To Consult G20 On Big Decisions

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MOSCOW, Nov 8 (Reuters) - The G20 should be consulted ahead of major decisions such as the US Federal Reserve's move to inject an extra $600 billion into [...]

October 12, 2010

Asian Stocks Lower Amid Hopes For Fed Action

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TOKYO — Asian stock markets fell Tuesday, but losses were limited as investors remained hopeful that the US Federal Reserve would take further action to [...]

November 08, 2010

Greenback And Yen Stand Out In Monday Trade; Fed Speakers Due Up

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While the Fed did indeed announce additional QE measures of up to $600B, there were no guarantees that all of this would in fact be necessary and there was [...]

November 09, 2010

Volcker Sees No Quick Way To Cut Unemployment

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Volcker is chairman of Obama's Economic Recovery Advisory Board and was Fed chief from 1979 until 1987 under presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. [...]

November 09, 2010

Ben Bernanke In Political Crossfire Again For Throwing Money Around

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He's also being pilloried by officials abroad who warn that the Fed's latest action to get the US economy's heart beating faster by opening the dollar [...]

November 03, 2010

Copper Falls As Traders Waited For Fed Announcement On Stimulus

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The metal pared losses in electronic trading after the Federal Reserve said it will buy an additional $600 billion of Treasuries through June to boost [...]

August 12, 2010

Police Use Of GPS Without Warrant Ruled Illegal By Fed Court

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Last year, I blogged about the ruling of the New York State Court of Appeals that found New York State Police had violated a criminal suspect's rights under the New York State Constitution when it placed a GPS tracking device inside the bumper of his van without obtaining a warrant. The court ruled that the using a GPS tracking device was an [...]

August 11, 2010

Fed Looks To Spur Growth By Buying Gov't Debt

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Federal Reserve officials decided to reinvest principal payments on mortgage holdings into long-term Treasury securities, making their first attempt to bolster growth since March 2009 to keep the slowing US economy from relapsing into recession. With growth weakening in the second quarter and company job gains in July falling short of estimates [...]

August 11, 2010

Fed, Citing Slowdown, To Buy U.S. Debt

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By buying government debt, the Fed is taking an unmistakable step to maintain the large amount of money that it began pumping into the economy in 2007. [...]

November 03, 2010

Oil Hits Six

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The Fed on Wednesday is expected to detail its next major step to help the economy: a new round of Treasury bond purchases, with the goal of pumping more [...]

October 12, 2010

Stocks Struggle Ahead Of Fed Minutes

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By CNNMoney.com staffOctober 12, 2010: 11:27 AM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Stocks were mixed Tuesday as investors await details from the Federal [...]


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