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Big Ben Talks Down The Dollar

Posted: December 7, 2009 at 1:48 pm

Friday's surprisingly strong job report sent the dollar soaring (NYSE: FXE, FXB, FXA, FXY).  Skittish currency traders got the impression that the improvement in the job market might prompt the ...
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FOMC: The Certainty Of Rate Cuts

Posted: January 30, 2008 at 6:31 am

There is no question about Fed Fun Futures showing a 100% chance of a rate cut at 2:15 PM EST today.  The verdict awaited is whether we see a 50 ...
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Bernanke Delivers Emergency Rate Cuts

Posted: January 22, 2008 at 8:32 am

The Federal Reserve has decided to finally take action to at least catch up to the markets with an inter-meeting emergency rate cut.  The FOMC has announced a 75 basis ...
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Will the Fed Intervene Early?

Posted: January 22, 2008 at 6:56 am

Today is going to be a critical day in the financial markets.  U.S. markets were closed on Monday while it was a financial blood bath on Monday in the E.U. ...
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Economic Numbers Could Have Been Worse (January 15, 2008)

Posted: January 15, 2008 at 8:41 am

The markets were bracing for some horrible news on the economic front, and while these numbers are all bad they are not quite as bad as some of the trader ...
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FOMC Comes Up Short (DIA, TLT)

Posted: December 11, 2007 at 2:23 pm

The FOMC did just come out and issue its discount on interest rates today.  We saw a 0.25% RATE CUT FED FUNDS and we saw a 0.25% RATE CUT ON ...
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Fed Increasing Public Forecasting; To Confuse Further

Posted: November 14, 2007 at 9:56 am

The FOMC under Bernanke is now saying that it wants to increase its communication to the public and will increase its public forecasting from twice per year to four-times per ...
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Cramer Calls It Open Buying Season

Posted: September 18, 2007 at 5:23 pm

On tonight's MAD MONEY, Jim Cramer said he was taking away his "they know nothing!" button from his rant about the FOMC.  Now Cramer is saying the Fed has finally ...
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FOMC Delivers With 50/50 (September 18, 2007)

Posted: September 18, 2007 at 1:23 pm

Today was the planned FOMC decision on interest rates and it seems there was a split between those looking for 25 or 50 basis points.  We were in the latter ...
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FOMC Acknowledges Concerns, But No Real Rescue Feelings

Posted: August 7, 2007 at 1:23 pm

The FOMC has spoken, and as expected rates were left unchanged at 5.25%.  Here were they key phrases we looked at:The Federal Open Market Committee decided today to keep its ...
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Tech Tuesday: All About Cisco Systems & The Fed (CSCO)

Posted: August 6, 2007 at 3:49 pm

Tomorrow is going to be an interesting day after a massive rally Monday.  The market is going to be looking to the FOMC for soem stability on the economic outlook ...
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