Federal Reserve News
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Updated 18 minutes ago
Bill Gross, who runs the world’s biggest bond fund, cut his holdings of emerging-market debt to a two-year low, selling assets from an area where the International Monetary Fund says growth will slow.
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Updated 1 hour, 18 minutes ago
Fed funds, the U.S. overnight inter- bank lending rate, is projected to open at 0.13 percent to 0.17 percent, within the Federal Reserve’s target of zero to 0.25 percent.
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Updated 28 minutes ago
Treasuries fell, with yields climbing from a three-month low, as the government prepared to sell $16 billion of 30-year securities today in the third auction of coupon-bearing debt this week.
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Updated 1 hour, 43 minutes ago
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. stood by its forecast for a rally in gold this year, saying that the precious metal will advance to $1,840 an ounce over six months as the U.S. central bank embarks on a third round of stimulus in June.
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Treasury 10-year yields were 19 basis points from the record low as Greece’s politicians struggled to form a government, increasing speculation that the nation will abandon the euro as its currency as it battles a recession.
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Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd. won approval to buy a U.S. lender in the biggest opening of the American banking market to Chinese companies, less than a week after economic talks in Beijing.
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Spending on construction of new residential housing and improvements to existing homes is at a three-year high, a trend that may boost sales at Home Depot Inc. and Lowe’s Cos.
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Global investors give Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke his highest approval rating since 2009 and expect him to take further action this year to accelerate a revival in the U.S. economy and financial markets.
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As commentators, politicians and academics struggle to make sense of the recent financial crisis and its ramifications, many of their accounts seek to identify a root cause or the “beginning of the story.”
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