The U.S. economy is unlikely to slip back into recession, and an improvement in recent indicators has been encouraging, Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank President Dennis Lockhart said on Tuesday.
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CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee (Reuters) The U.S. economy is unlikely to slip back into recession, and an improvement in recent indicators has been encouraging, Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank President Dennis Lockhart said on Tuesday.
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Shares spent a volatile day torn between Europe worries and reading into comments from Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, only to surge in the final hour of trading on the hope Europe may do more to address its bank problem.
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Crude-oil futures edge down as U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke offers a more optimistic view of the U.S. economy and defers all talk of further steps to a policy meeting in late September.
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Crude-oil futures fluctuate as U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke offers a more optimistic view of the U.S. economy and defers all talks of further steps to a policy meeting in late September.
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The Federal Open Market Committee holds its regularly scheduled meeting Tuesday and is not expected to announce any major policy initiatives as the decline in financial markets is viewed as too fresh for the Fed to react to in any major way.
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Coming up this Wednesday, the Fed's Policy Committee will meet and Fed head Ben Bernanke will host his second public press conference.
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Following the release of the Federal Reserve’s much-awaited stress test results on Friday, many big banks that were granted the green signal took immediate action to raise their dividends. The Fed allowed America’s strongest banks that have passed the second round of stress tests to operate independently without strict government restrictions that were imposed during the height of financial crisis in 2008.
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The Federal Reserve’s second round of quantitative easing has brought joy to most financial markets. Bringing glee to the job market may be harder, writes Kathleen Madigan.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employment fell for a third straight month in August, but the drop was far less than expected and private hiring surprised on the upside, easing pressure on the Federal Reserve to prop up economic growth.
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