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Should Fed Heal Economy With Talk Therapy?

(Nov. 25) -- When it comes to the economy, it's not just what you do but what you say. And no place is this more true than at the Federal Reserve, where a single word uttered by the chairman of the U.S. central bank can cause upheaval across the global financial markets and prompt businesses to hire or fire, raise prices...

Bernanke Hits Back at Critics of Bond-Buying Plan

WASHINGTON (Nov. 19) -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke hit back at critics, both at home and abroad, who have challenged the central bank's $600 billion bond-purchase program. In a speech in Germany, he argued that Congress must help support the Fed's program with further stimulus aid. And he issued a stern warning...

Fed Rescue Effort for Economy Would Carry Risks

(Oct. 15) -- The straggling jobs market, foreclosure epidemic and rash of vulnerabilities across the American economy seem to call for a rescue effort from the Federal Reserve, but any such rescue bid would come with risks of its own. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke today made the case for additional economic aid, arguing that...

Japan Cuts Interest Rate to Zero in Bid to Boost Economy

(Oct. 5) -- Facing an economic downturn that threatens to get worse, the Bank of Japan today surprised markets by cutting the cost of borrowed money to rock bottom prices and announcing a plan to pump trillions of yen into the financial system. It was the latest sign the world's major economies fear a stalled recovery...

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Global economy at risk as US, Europe and Asia slow

WASHINGTON -The global economy's foundations are weakening, one by one.

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Interest Rates: Hikes Mark Carney Warned About Now Seem Unlikely

OTTAWA - Is the next move for Mark Carney to cut interest rates?

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Bank Of England Considering Printing More Money As UK Economy Stalls

The Bank of England will seriously consider another dose of emergency money printing on Thursday if evidence emerges of a further deterioration in the economy.

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Alan Grayson: Yesterday: The Lowest Interest Rates in History

Yesterday, the 10-year Treasury note hit its lowest interest rate in history.

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Spain PM insists on sticking to austerity measures

MADRID -Spain insisted Friday it is financially stable because its heavily indebted regions are now meeting deficit reduction targets, but investors remained worried about the country's ability to rescue another part of its financial system - the banks - and kept the government's bond yields dangerously high.

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06/03/12 Aussie market braces for a wipeout Source: The Daily Telegraph - Australia The weakest US jobs figures in a year released on Friday (8.2 per cent unemployment) have triggered heavy falls on both north American and European markets.
06/03/12 Strong Yen Belies a Worrisome Japanese Economy Source: Bloomberg.com Investors have enough to worry about: the crisis in the euro area, the uneven U.S. recovery and the probable hard landing in China.
06/03/12 Business âº Savvy Japanese look overseas to escape... Source: Japan Today Hiroshi Kosaka has an unorthodox pitch for his realty business: instead of pictures of swanky condominiums his website features Japanese debt statistics and budget meltdown scenarios usually left to credit rating agencies.
06/03/12 Fears of further slip Source: The Telegraph of India Industrial growth is expected to decelerate sharply in the first quarter of the current fiscal, according to a CII-Ascon survey.
06/03/12 Cut rates to bolster confidence, Reserve urged Source: f2 Network THE Reserve Bank is being urged to cut interest rates by a further 0.5 percentage points at its board meeting tomorrow to head off a fall in confidence before the introduction of the carbon tax on July 1.