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Source: Jon OggStocks have pulled back from new all-time highs and interest rates have risen more than 100 basis points on the longer-end of the yield curve. Investors are expecting a tapering effect...
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Source: ThinkstockThe world of gold and silver has been turned upside down. The market fears that Ben Bernanke’s quantitative easing under the Federal Reserve will end sooner rather than later, and...
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Source: Jon OggThe stock market and bond market are trying and trying to figure out how to price in the eventual tapering effects of quantitative easing. Ultimately, these markets will both have to...
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Source: courtesy U.S. Federal ReserveThe Federal Reserve statement from the July FOMC meeting has been released. Ben Bernanke and the team inside the Fed are looking for the economy to continue...
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Source: Jon OggThe days of Ben Bernanke as the chairman of the Federal Reserve are looking shorter and shorter ahead of his term expiration in 2014. President Obama has said that Bernanke is likely...
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Source: ThinkstockEsther George, president of the Kansas City Federal Reserve, is the most vocal voting member of the Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). At each FOMC meeting,...
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Source: courtesy U.S. Federal ReserveFederal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is testifying in his semiannual report to the Congress on Wednesday. The stock, bond, commodity and currency markets are...
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Source: ThinkstockEsther George of the Kansas City Federal Reserve told Fox Business News that it is time to start the end of the Federal Reserve’s bond buying program. While unemployment is high,...
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The FOMC is out with its highly anticipated minutes of its last meeting. While there is some clarification and some expansion of their comments along with Ben Bernanke anticipation, we would remind...
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Source: ThinkstockJeffrey Lacker of the Richmond Federal Reserve is considered very much a hawkish Fed president, but his comments on Wednesday are helping the stock market. After Ben Bernanke’s...
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Source: ThinkstockThe stock market has been pummeled from its highs just a month ago, and at the same time we have seen the unusual circumstance where the yields on long-term bonds have risen. It...
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Ben Bernanke’s post-FOMC comments on bond tapering this week may have been misinterpreted, or maybe the market reaction will prove to be correct. What has happened is that the markets are...
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Source: Jon OggThe US Treasury 30-year bond, the so-called Long Bond, is proving to be a widow-maker to those who bought a couple of months ago. Most investors did not want to hear that a mere 1%...
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Source: Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesThere is something that is rare in the financial markets, but it does happen from time to time. It is called The Market Flush, and it essentially is exactly...
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Source: Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department is showing that weekly jobless claims are headed in the wrong direction. Just a day after Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke was interpreted as...
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