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Updated throughout the day on the 24/7 Wall St. Wire: New York State investigates tax practices at private equity firms. (WSJ) Bernanke will not push for QE3 until the end of the year if the economy...
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The guessing about the August jobs numbers will be amplified as Friday’s announcement approaches. Some analysts believe that the figures will prove that the U.S. rate of GDP growth has moved to...
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The focus of the markets today will be Ben Bernanke’s speech at a banker’s conference in Jackson Hole. Investors have held their breath for days in anticipation. The waiting also has been one of...
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HSBC released its preliminary reading of China’s August PMI. The figure was 47.8, which is a nine-month low. The reading was below July’s 49.3. A number under 50 means the manufacturing sector is...
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Today’s release of the minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) likely will be reviewed closely by economists and Federal Reserve watchers. This is due out at 2:00 p.m. EST and should...
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In an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Federal Reserve president John Williams said that the slow economic recovery and the continuing high unemployment have persuaded him...
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Today’s Federal Open Market Committee decision on interest rates was never really about rates. How could it be? The reality is that Ben Bernanke and friends at the FOMC have already had...
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The Federal Reserve Open Market Committee has just released the minutes from its June FOMC Meeting and investors are going to take the news as a disappointment if they were hoping for more...
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By now you have heard all of the fears of the inflation spectre. After printing money, buying up hundreds and hundreds of billions of billions worth of securities, and bailing out the banks and the...
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The European Central Bank looks to be getting closer and closer to finally admitting that it cannot stick its head in the sand and make silly comments about worrying over inflation and looking for...
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At this week’s meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), there is a reasonable chance that the Fed will at least drop a strong hint that more monetary help is on the way. Following...
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is testifying before the Joint Economic Committee at Congress today and Mr. Bernanke is not exactly committing to any further quantitative easing or QE3. He...
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With China’s growth slowing further and with Europe’s woes growing each day, economic data in the United States continues to ride the line closer to recessionary levels. Japan hit a 28-year low...
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The debate over whether Europe should have one central financial authority grows louder. Even Angela Merkel of Germany has hinted she would drop her objections to eurobonds if this new authority has...
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about what can be done to salvage the US economy will be dominated by whether the Federal Reserve will launch a QE3. So far, the Fed has reported that unemployment, housing, and consumer spending...
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