By Mark Hulbert, MarketWatch
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (MarketWatch) — A Bernanke-based strategy for trading gold?
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.
I was prompted to investigate just such a strategy by gold’s unexpected strength on Tuesday. I had devoted my column four days previously to the alarmingly high level of bullishness among gold timers, because of which contrarians believed bullion was vulnerable to a decline. And, sure enough, gold’s intraday low on Monday was more...Read Full Story
Ben Bernanke: The state of the housing sector has been a key impediment to a faster recovery. In the typical economic recovery, a resurgent housing sector helps fuel reemployment and rising incomes. But as you know all too well, that scenario has not played out this time. Although the precipitous declines in construction that began in 2006 are, thankfully, now behind us, homebuilding remains depressed in most areas, relative both to where it was before the downturn and to where it will need...Read Full Story
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 Ben Bernanke: Long-Term Unemployment Crisis Altering Job Market For The Worse Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Tuesday that record levels of long-term unemployment will alter the U.S. job market for the worse for the foreseeable future. Bernanke said at a Senate Budget Committee hearing that the natural rate of unemployment -- or the level of unemployment that results when the economy is supporting as many jobs as it can -- has risen from about four percent...Read Full Story
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The numbers are proving FederalReserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke ’s critics wrong. More than a year after Republicans from House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio to presidential candidate Ron Paul of Texas warned that the Fed’s second round of asset purchases risked asharp acceleration in prices, the surge has failed tomaterialize. The personal-consumption-expenditures price indexrose 2.4 percent for the 12 months ending in December, near thecentral bank’s 2 percent target. “The statements were...Read Full Story
If you really care about your financial future, here's something you need to know. It's about a story that received almost zero coverage from the mainstream press. I can't say that I am surprised. It involves gold. Thanks to requests by ...
The depressed state of the housing market is holding the United States back from economic recovery, according to Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke. Speaking last week at the International Builders Show, Bernanke blamed the collapse in home values for cutting ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – February 8, 2012 – (RealEstateRama) — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will speak at the 2012 International Builders’ Show (IBS) on Friday, Feb. 10. IBS attendees and registered news media can attend Bernanke’s ...
WASHINGTON -- Ben Bernanke said declines in home prices have forced many Americans to cut back sharply on spending and warns that the trend could continue to weigh on the economy for years. The Federal Reserve chairman drew the connection ...
Lingering housing market problems are slowing the economy and limiting the effectiveness of Federal Reserve policies, according to Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, CNN Money reports.
In a speech delivered five days after the big $25 billion mortgage settlement between states and big banks, Bernanke said the decline in home values has resulted in more than $7 trillion in lost wealth.
That, in turn, means a drop in consumer spending between $200...
Housing, with some help from Wall Street, got us into the Great Recession, and it is housing that has made the recovery from that recession so slow and painful, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said today. "The state of the housing sector ...
That was before Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke swooped in with a "red cape" and fired ... only central bankers in the fiscal and monetary bullring. Brazil has cut its benchmark interest rate a few times and China lowered its reserve ...
Ben S. Bernanke is current Chairman of the Board of Governors of the United States Federal Reserve. A distinguished Princeton Economics professor specializing in monetary policy and macroeconomics. Bernanke served the Federal Reserve in other roles before taking the chair.
Forbes - Lending some credence to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's depiction of the U.S. economy as strong enough not to need any help from lower interest rates, the Commerce Department iss
Reuters UK - TOKYO, March 29 (Reuters) - The dollar edged up on Thursday, extending a rebound against the yen from the prior session after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the central bank f
Herald Tribune - WASHINGTON: Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, said he did not expect the escalating problems in the mortgage lending business to spread to the rest of the economy, but noted
Boston Globe - WASHINGTON -- Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke doesn't believe the nation will slip into a recession, and he rejects the notion raised by his predecessor, Alan Greenspan, that