...Treasury debt prices surged as signs of the worsening economic outlook boosted their safe-haven appeal and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke hinted the central bank could become a buyer to push interest rates down further. âMiserable readings from other manufacturing...
...cycles, said Monday that the United States has been in a recession since December 2007. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Monday afternoon that the U.S. economic weakness would continue for some time, despite the impact of the government's efforts...
...own belief (and the economic consensus is moving in this direction, too) is that public fiscal stimulus is needed stat. Ben Bernanke has tried his best with monetary policy, but the interest rates controlled by the Fed are so low that there's not much left...
...long-term Treasuries kept bonds in the plus column and benchmark yields near five-decade lows Tuesday. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's remarks from Monday continued to reverberate, analysts said, supporting a bid for long-dated Treasuries. "The belief...
...half a percentage point, to 0.50%, this month. That would be the lowest on record dating to mid-1954. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said that the Fed could employ methods besides cutting short-term interest rates to keep the financial system liquid, which caused...
...arbiter of U.S. business cycles declared that the United States entered recession in December 2007 and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the U.S. economy remained under considerable strain. "Things are looking quite bleak. Everyone acknowledges that,"...
...is remarkable how little attention is being given to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke's much more ambitious effort to spread the wealth. They are putting in practice measures that swamp any plans put forward...
...target," said Bullard, who is not a voting member of the Fed's interest rate-setting committee this year. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is a long-standing advocate of inflation targeting, but was unable to persuade enough Fed colleagues of its merits when this...
...by hints the Federal Reserve would consider cutting interest rates. In a speech Monday in Austin, Texas, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said further reductions in lending rates were "feasible." After Monday's fall of 679 points, the Dow Jones industrial average...
...emergency measures integral to stabilizing banks during the credit crisis. The Fed's move came a day after Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke emphasized that policy-makers were determined to stabilize the economy and financial markets. Energy stocks [XLE Loading... () ],...