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Recent hints of possible relaxing of the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing program has roiled global and domestic markets recently, and investors need to get their portfolios prepared for a possible pulling of the punch bowl.After years of flooding the market with money from its massive bond-buying program and keeping interest rates at record lows, many experts expect the central bank to start tapering its efforts and start reducing its balance sheet amid signs of a slowly recovering economy.While most experts don't expect policymakers to announce any QE narrowing at Wednesday's two-day meeting conclusion, Fed chief Ben Bernanke told Congress in his semiannual testimony in May the Fed would start considering it over the next several meetings. Wall Street didn't like that idea of losing its backstop and the stock has been more volatile ever since. Treasury yields crept above 2% for the first time since March."I would expect tapering to come in October -- that gives Bernanke enough ...
President Barack Obama on Monday will nominate longtime adviser Jason Furman to be his new chief White House economist, an administration official said.Furman, who w...
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Dennis Lockhart, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, on the government’s efforts to stabilize the economy.
RDQ Economics Chief Economist John Ryding on the outlook for the markets and economy.
IRS still targeting conservative groups?
FBN’s Diane Macedo breaks down the stories moving the markets ahead of the trading day.
FBN’s Diane Macedo breaks down the stories moving the markets around the world.
The Hill's Bob Cusack weighs in
U.S. consumer confidence strengthened in May to the highest level in more than five years, suggesting Americans' attitudes were resilient in the face of belt-tighten...
The U.S. consumer confidence index climbed to a five-year high of 76.2 in May from an upwardly revised 69.0 in April, the Conference Board said Tuesday. The increase...
Hoover Institute senior fellow Ed Lazear argues the lack of economic recovery is to blame for the amount of unemployed Americans.
Just when you may have thought that federal tax policy was set - that January's "fiscal cliff" deal meant you could go about your financial life with multi-year cert...
Congress and the White House collectively have a short attention span.Stock markets have surged in the first half of 2013 and housing prices are climbing again, rebu...
Euro Pacific Capital’s Peter Schiff on the pullback in gold and bond trends.
On Monday, gold ( NYSEARCA:GLD ) futures for August delivery, the most active contract, edged $3.00 higher to close at $1,386 per ounce, while silver ( NYSEARCA:SLV ...
FBN's Liz MacDonald on S&P reaffirming its AA+ rating on U.S. debt and raising its credit outlook.
The focus next week will be on the State of the Union address, with some earnings and data also being released. Christina Scotti reports.
Standard & Poor's reaffirmed its AA+ rating on U.S. debt and revised its U.S. credit outlook to stable from negative.The move comes almost two years after the credit...
Ratings company Standard & Poor's upgraded its outlook on the U.S. to "stable" from "negative" on Monday and said "tentative improvements" on the political and econo...
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