A rather non conventional start to the presser with Ben Bernanke being cornered on how big the change in Employment situation and inflation would actually cause the Fed to reduced the buying program both for Agency MBS and Long Treasuries…
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Ben Bernanke Speaks (Q&A , post FOMC 1430 hrs March 20, 2013)
FOMC Policy speak and Forecasts, March 19-20, 2013 (followed by Ben Bernanke Speaks)
The March FOMC Statement has been released along expected lines. The Fed has apparently tried to remove possibility of runaway speculation around its statements in small measure removing strategic Ifs and buts from the January statement specifically when confirming…
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Tagged with: Ben Bernanke, Fed, Federal Open Market Committee, Federal Reserve System, FOMC, Gross domestic product, January, United States Treasury security
Posted in Financial Markets
Posted in Financial Markets
Ben Bernanke Speaks: US and UK join hands to go down the unlimited QE lane
Making news this Wednesday as the FOMC meeting gets over is the continuing of the Federal Reserve along new NGDP targets or in this particular US cae an unemployment target of 6.5% to continue the $45B open ended QE program.…
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US Economy: You can leave it to Ben? | FOMC Meeting October 23-24, 2012
Clint Eastwood’s newly launched Anti Obama Campaign inadvertently combined with the FOMC meeting announcement along expected lines to bring out a likely mean streak in equities in afternoon trading. As expected the October announcement, as it is not to be…
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Here Comes the Fed Decision – FOMC Statement – July-August 2012
The statement reiterates it noted the deceleration in the First Half of the year and to be fair to them have not added any new spin to what has already become painfully obvious to most observers except for not giving…
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Tagged with: Committee, Dual mandate, Economic Growth, Federal Open Market Committee, Federal Reserve System, Inflation, Petroleum, unemployment
Posted in Amitonomics, US
Posted in Amitonomics, US
US Morning Report: It is the Economy, Mr Bernanke!
The moderate recovery underway in the data seems to wax and wane according to its distance from a scheduled Fed meeting with bad new home sales last week ignored as the Beige Book and now the Personal Income shows a…
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US Economy: Bernanke’s Testimony at the Senate Banking Committee Day 1: No QE3 right now.
Read my Lips. We are the US regulator. We cannot regulate LIBOR which is run by the British. A flabbergasted Ben Bernanke would have probably used those words at home or at his favorite College when delivering a lecture on…
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Tagged with: Ben Bernanke, Bernanke, Federal Open Market Committee, Federal Reserve System, London Interbank Offered Rate, Monetary Policy, United States, United States Senate Committee on Banking Housing and Urban Affairs
Posted in Amitonomics, Bailout Nation, Banking, European Sovereign Debt crisis, housing, Retail Lifestyle, TARP, US
Posted in Amitonomics, Bailout Nation, Banking, European Sovereign Debt crisis, housing, Retail Lifestyle, TARP, US
Global Mid-Day report: FOMC minutes, London close downward trigger
Equities and Commodities are likely to continue reacting sharply in US markets after the minutes from the June 19,20 meeting were released. The FOMC had shorn US growth projections to 2.3-2.5% in the long term at the meeting and though…
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Tagged with: Burberry, Eric Rosengren, Federal Open Market Committee, FOMC, June, London, Monetary Policy, Singapore
Posted in Amitonomics, Bailout Nation, Banking, housing, Retail Lifestyle, US
Posted in Amitonomics, Bailout Nation, Banking, housing, Retail Lifestyle, US
Ben Bernanke Speaks – FOMC June 2012
Forecasts for the US Ecoonomy at the June FOMC were down by as much as 0.5 % on GDP, with 2013 forecasts to 2.7-3.1% and 2012 data to 1.9-2.4% GDP and even unemployment forecasts moved south to 8.2% at the…
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Tagged with: Core inflation, Fed, Federal Open Market Committee, Federal Reserve System, FOMC, Gross domestic product, Inflation targeting, Monetary Policy
Posted in Amitonomics, Banking, US
Posted in Amitonomics, Banking, US
US Economy: Fed Announces Policy (FOMC June 20, 2012)
FOMC announcement as expected brought the horns on the Euro, honking down 5% in amatter of minutes. The FOMC seemed to have extended its dovish language for this meeting as well taking the opportunity tio extend $245 B of Operation…
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