President Barack Obama's budget proposal Monday will offer several measures to trim the federal deficit in the next 10 years. But it would leave largely unchanged the biggest drivers of future government spending: the Medicare, Medicaid and ...
Shelling out a $25 billion penalty is certainly painful. But it is something bank-stock investors may be able to grin and bear. The reason: The foreclosure-abuse settlement agreed on Thursday among banks, state attorneys general and the ...
BEIJING (Caixin Online) — Recently, stock markets around the world have performed remarkably well. This may even continue for a few months. The U.S. Federal Reserve’s promise to hold interest rates near zero until 2014 and signal of a third ...
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — The Federal Reserve’s decision to publish the interest-rate forecast of its members – a historic move to offer greater transparency – is being met mostly with skepticism by stock analysts.
NEW YORK—The Federal Reserve Bank of New York received $3.2 billion from the special entity it created to sell mortgage bonds it acquired in the 2008 bailout of American International Group Inc., according to data released Thursday.
Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the top Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, on Tuesday criticized comments that Federal Reserve officials made before the financial crisis.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (MarketWatch) — A Bernanke-based strategy for trading gold? I was prompted to investigate just such a strategy by gold’s unexpected strength on Tuesday. I had devoted my column four days previously to the alarmingly high ...
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke did not throw the spotlight Tuesday on last week’s surprisingly strong January unemployment report, sticking to his forecast only moderate growth ahead.
Critics of the Federal Reserve's super easy money policy of recent years have long argued the tidal wave of liquidity will eventually generate a new round of bubbles that will bring fresh woe to the economy.
"Operation Twist" has got the Treasury market in a knot. One of the goals of Operation Twist, which was implemented in October, was to push investors out of Treasurys and into riskier assets such as stocks. Under the policy, the Federal ...
In another sign that the credit freeze is thawing, the Federal Reserve said Americans ramped up their borrowing at the end of 2011. Household borrowing through credit cards, car loans, student loans and other installment debt—which excludes ...
The Federal Reserve should start raising its short-term funds rate in 2013, at least a year ahead of the central bank's current plan, a Fed policy maker said Monday.
If the economic recovery falters, the Federal Reserve should provide more stimulus through bond buying to get things back on track, a top central bank official said Wednesday.
We're now in the 37th month of central government manipulation of the free-market system through the Federal Reserve's near-zero interest rate policy. Is it working?
America's central bank, the Federal Reserve, is engaged in a bailout of European banks. Surprisingly, its operation is largely unnoticed here.
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