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She is a relatively new governor and normally does not discuss monetary policy… Fiscal and monetary policymakers should consider should wide array of job promotion steps Labor market even weaker than it appears Transmission of policy actions more muted than would have expected Interesting...

We still have more than a week until the Federal Reserve is scheduled to wrap up its two day discussion about monetary policy and announce its decided path to the rest of the trading world. Dollar Faces Retail Sales Data but Fed Decision Still Overwhelming Euro May Soon Build an Immunity to...

There's still a lot of time before Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke meets with US Federal Reserve officials in deciding the short term future of monetary policy.   But, recent US economic signs are making it easier by the day to predict what's going to be coming from the Fed.   And it's a lot like what we...

As I said a few weeks ago, the Fed will use the Wall Street Journal's Jon Hilsenrath as a source to leak what they will be doing in the late September meeting.  The market does not like surprises so Ben wants the whole world to be prepared ahead of time.  Jon's latest story could not be titled in a...

With reports that Hurricane Irene killed at least 20 people, knocked out power to more than 2 million homes and businesses and left many towns flooded over the weekend, presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) stood by his controversial belief that the federal government should reduce its...

Good morning. As always, thanks are due to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City for organizing this conference. This year's topic, long-term economic growth, is indeed pertinent--as has so often been the case at this symposium in past years. In particular, the financial crisis and the subsequent...

By EconMatters Catching up on my news reading on a Sunday afternoon, at the top of the Bloomberg homepage was an investigative piece finally revealing how much, when and whom the Federal Reserve provided the discount window and emergency l... Go to http://www.SwingTradingDaily.com for full article...

No matter what happens, the price of gold will increase. If we have another wave of international banking failures and a deflationary collapse, gold will rise as investors flock to it as a safe haven. But if the economy recovers and we actually get inflation from all of the monetary stimulus...

Market fears are creeping insidiously out of the wood work as fractious central bankers try to explain where there colleagues are going wrong and as bank economists rein in their growth forecasts. The morning seems completely void of any kind of silver lining with each and every one of investors'...

This is your Benzinga news summary and trader's outlook for Tuesday, June 7, 2011, covering headlines from overnight and Tuesday's pre-market session. Today in domestic pre-market trading, U.S. equity futures are trading higher as markets try to gain some momentum after five consecutive weeks of...

“The United States is trying to maintain a kick the can approach to our fiscal problem,” observes Graham Summers, chief strategist at Phoenix Capital Research. The problem in question is, of course, our towering deficit. And unfortunately US financial authorities are more than willing to break the...

The Canadian dollar has fallen to a two-month low, and is currently valued at 1.0225 USD. This fall in value has been the result of weak economic performance both world-wide and in Canada. Retail performance, in particular, has been less than spectacular. Retail and other discretionary spending is...

For several months now, traders have increasingly abandoned the U.S. dollar. While these trades have been profitable thus far, it could be time for a move in the opposite direction. In the past year, nearly everything has gone up against the U.S. dollar. The largest currency gainers against the...

U.S. stock futures are pointing to slightly higher open today after hitting new multi-year highs yesterday. The rally in the S&P 500 and yesterday came after stronger-than-expected earnings results from many major U.S. corporations. The major broad U.S. market ETF (NYSE: SPY) is currently...