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Is QE Damning Mortgage REITs and Their Dividend Prospects?

Posted: May 13, 2013 at 12:47 pm

High yield investors have been chasing the attractive dividend payouts offered by the mortgage REIT sector for years and years now. Unlike the high payouts from telecom, tobacco, and utilities ...
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Bank of England Keeps Stimulus and Quantitative Easing Alive

Posted: May 9, 2013 at 7:30 am

The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee voted on Thursday to maintain the current economic stimulus plans. This is its version of quantitative easing, similar to what is being seen ...
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Bernanke and FOMC Adopt Change in QE Asset Buying Language

Posted: May 1, 2013 at 2:13 pm

Ben Bernanke and the Federal Open Market Committee are leaving the near-zero rate policy flat at 0.00% to 0.25% for Fed Funds. That was expected and is expected to remain ...
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Two Fed Presidents: Praise and Bash QE and Bond Buying

Posted: April 18, 2013 at 11:05 am

The Federal Reserve may have released its Beige Book on Wednesday showing no real risks to quantitative easing and to the $85 billion per month used for buying bonds. Despite ...
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Our Take: Beige Book Still Supports QE and Bond Buying Longer

Posted: April 17, 2013 at 3:25 pm

The Federal Reserve release its Beige Book on Wednesday, and it seems as though Ben Bernanke and Fed presidents are trying to hint more and more that the end of ...
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FOMC Minutes Released Early, Hints at End of Quantitative Easing Timeline

Posted: April 10, 2013 at 9:20 am

The Federal Reserve was set to release its minutes of the latest March 19 to 20 FOMC meeting at 2:00 p.m EST today but the report came out at 9:00 a.m. ...
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Why Weak Payrolls May Actually Be Good for the Markets

Posted: April 5, 2013 at 9:55 am

This will sound highly counterintuitive, but the extremely weak payrolls report from the Labor Department may in fact be good news for those who have wanted an opportunity to get back ...
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Proof That QE Will Drive Japanese Assets Higher

Posted: April 4, 2013 at 10:20 am

Japan has confirmed what we already expected in that its version of quantitative easing is going to be massive. Depending on how it comes about, somewhere between $75 billion and ...
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Atlanta Fed President Lockhart Hints at End of Bond Buying … QE Infinity Still Lives

Posted: April 2, 2013 at 2:25 pm

The market is paying attention to Atlanta Fed president Dennis Lockhart today regarding an end to quantitative easing. While some investors may be keying off of the "end of this ...
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Fed Governor Raskin Sticks with Low Rates for Considerable Time

Posted: March 22, 2013 at 9:15 am

Federal Reserve Governor Sarah Bloom Raskin is speaking Friday at the National Community Reinvestment Coalition annual conference in Washington, D.C. She took office in 2010 and will have an unexpired ...
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Kansas Fed Continues Contraction While Esther George Stays Hawkish Nationally

Posted: February 28, 2013 at 11:25 am

The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City is often overlooked by economists and investors as being important in the national economic barometers. That might not be the case this year ...
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Ben Bernanke Testimony Rescues Fed Communications Snafu from Last Week

Posted: February 26, 2013 at 10:20 am

It was just last week that we accused the Federal Reserve presidents and governors of wishing they could take back their wording and statements made in the January 20 to ...
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FOMC Minutes Show Some Changing Views On Asset Purchases

Posted: February 20, 2013 at 2:20 pm

The Federal Reserve has released its minutes of the January 29 to 30 FOMC meeting. The general conditions were positive and the caution was mostly around the weather at the ...
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Lacker Targets Less Fed-Easing in 2013

Posted: January 4, 2013 at 1:44 pm

Jeffrey Lacker, President of the Richmond Federal Reserve, is out with what are becoming more and more routine comments talking about dissension inside the Federal Reserve. Lacker is consistently the ...
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QE4 Is Already on the Table

Posted: November 19, 2012 at 1:54 pm

The Federal Reserve has been aiming all it can to keep the economy going. If you have been following Fed policy for years it is fairly amazing to watch. That ...
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