Posts Tagged ‘federal’
Stocks Tick Higher After Fed Minutes
Stocks Tick Higher After Fed Minutes Blue-chip stocks tacked on a second straight session of gains this year, boosted by encouraging economic data and relief over a quiet set of minutes from the Federal Reserve's last meeting. Read the rest of this entry »
U.S. Stocks Slip
U.S. stocks fell Wednesday as concerns about the Federal Reserve's anti-deflationary... Read the rest of this entry »
Rough August for Dow
Stocks battled to a stalemate on Federal Reserve uncertainty over how to handle... Read the rest of this entry »
Glum Fed Report Weighs on Stocks
A gloomy economic assessment from the Federal Reserve added more doubts to the fragile... Read the rest of this entry »
Stocks Fall on Weak Home Sales
Stocks edged lower as investors reacted to weak housing data and awaited the Federal Reserve's... Read the rest of this entry »
Kiplinger Letter May 21, 2010 (The Kiplinger Letter)
Dear Client, Odds of a U.S. value-added tax are slim. But there's plenty of talk about it these days as a way to ease tax collection and trim the deficit. Among others, former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi say it's worth a look Read the rest of this entry »
2-10-10 Daily Small Cap Market News and Stock Highlights from SmallCapVoice.com
Submitted by SmallCapVoice.com Stocks turn lower after comments by Fed Chairman Bernanke The stock market is falling as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke details plans for dismantling the central bank’s economic support measures. Bernanke says in prepared remarks to a House committee Wednesday that the Fed likely will begin tightening credit by raising the interest rate it pays Read the rest of this entry »
Kiplinger Washington Letter January 29, 2010 (The Kiplinger Letter)
If the federal deficit is a runaway train racing, with no brakes, toward a steep precipice... most states have already gone over the cliff. State budget holes are getting deeper. Revenues fell dramatically all last year... down 11.1% in the sharpest decline in 46 years. Corporate income taxes slid the most, 17.5%, but individual income and sales tax revenue was also down, by 11.3% and 8.8%, respectively. Read the rest of this entry »
1-25-10 Daily Small Cap Market News and Stock Highlights from SmallCapVoice.com
Submitted by SmallCapVoice.com Stocks rebound as Fed Chairman Bernanke looks to be reappointed Stocks rose Monday morning, rebounding from the worst losing streak since the market bottomed last March. The market is bouncing back from a three-day losing streak that saw the Dow Jones industrial average fall 5.2 percent as concerns eased that Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Read the rest of this entry »
SCHMIDT’S GOLD THOUGHTS (5 January 2010): (Ned Schmidt Gold Thoughts)
We must applaud the leadership of the Federal Reserve. That group is certainly attempting to be more efficient. Why wait till later in the year? Do it early, and get it done. Make a speech filled with what may go down as the height of economic drivel on the 2nd day of January, rather than later in the year. Maybe Chairman Bernanke thought if he spouted economic nonsense early in the year, most would forget his blundering leadership by year end. Read the rest of this entry »