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Wall Street traders brace for extended shutdown amid lofty valuationsAhead of earnings season, the US stock market rally faces compounding threats from a government shutdown, eye-watering equity valuations, a...
Janet Yellen confirms Fed Reserve still on track to raise rates this yearFederal Reserve chair Janet Yellen said she is ready to raise interest rates this year and intends to let the labour market run hot.
Bernanke wields tools to cut unemployment rateCentral bankers linked their interestrate outlook to economic thresholds, saying rates will stay low as long as unemployment remains above ...
US August jobs data may signal recessionThe economy is faltering, including slowing manufacturing, plunging consumer confidence, falling home values and lower bond yields and stoc...
- Adopt economic policies to propel growth: Bankers
Central bankers gathered at an annual retreat in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, this weekend had a message for political leaders: monetary policy a...
- Obama set to sign finance reform bill
US President Barack Obama will claim a moment of history on Wednesday when he signs into law the most sweeping regulatory reform of the US ...
- ‘Squeezed’ by recovery momentum, Fed may affirm low-rate pledge
Federal Reserve officials may indicate the US recovery is strengthening while avoiding any signal of a change in the monetary policy by say...
- Bernanke's growth formula drives stock markets, not jobs
Federal Reserve chairman Ben S Bernanke has succeeded in returning the US economy to growth after the longest contraction in more than six ...
- Bernanke may have saved the world
The causes of last year’s financial upheaval remain hotly debated, but many analysts say a swift and massive response by US authorities may...
- Did Bernanke save US from another Great Depression?
Yet Bernanke does not escape his share of blame for the crisis as a Fed gov under then-chairman Alan Greenspan. Top banking stocks I Ben Be...
- Lehman collapse sent financial system crashing
Lehman Brothers went into the weekend of September 13-14, 2008, amid widespread uncertainty and fears about a collapse that could have wide...
- 'New' GM takes U-turn on Opel
A confident General Motors seems to be willing to keep its German unit Opel and a presence in the Europe market. Key dates in GM's history ...
- Fed to take slow road back to normal interest rates
The Federal Reserve is likely to wait to ensure a sustainable economic recovery is underway before lifting interest rates from the current ...
- Surging bond sales point to credit market thaw
Corporate bond trading in the US is rising to the highest in two years, adding to evidence that credit markets are thawing even with stocks...
- Fed eyes new tools to ease crisis
Having cut interest rates to near zero, the Federal Reserve meets on Tuesday and Wednesday to consider further actions to get credit flowin...
- US corporate bonds sell like hot cakes
US corporate bond sales soared to $41 billion this week, the most in almost eight months, as companies took advantage of investor demand to...
- Economists say stakes too high to abandon rescue plan
Despite a stunning defeat by US lawmakers of a massive rescue bill for the battered financial sector, many economists say the stakes are to...
- US growth may dip to 1% in Q4
US economic growth will slow to 1% in Q4 as consumer spending cools and the housing slump enters its third year, a survey showed.
- Fed likely to leave rates unchanged
While Wall Street has been on a wild roller-coaster ride and housing troubles continue to mount, the Federal Reserve still seems to be most...
- Banks pick up where Fed left off, restricting access to credit
Banks are picking up the baton from the Federal Reserve, restricting access to credit months after chairman Ben S. Bernanke stopped raising...