WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Wednesday offered a tempered view of the U.S. economy, pouring cold water on the notion that recent upbeat signs herald a stronger recovery.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Wednesday offered a tempered view of the U.S. economy, pouring cold water on the notion that recent upbeat signs herald a stronger recovery.

Originally from Reuters: Business News
Tags: Ahead, Bernanke, jobs, progress, Reuters: Business News, Slow, warns
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Wednesday offered a tempered view of the U.S. economy, pouring cold water on the notion that recent upbeat signs herald a stronger recovery.

Originally from Reuters: Business News
Tags: Ahead, Bernanke, jobs, progress, Reuters: Business News, Slow, warns
SAN RAMON, Calif./NEW YORK (Reuters) - The pick-up in jobs has caught the eye of two top Federal Reserve officials who said on Wednesday that continued improvement in the beleaguered labor market dampens prospects for more economic stimulus measures from the central bank.

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Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke did not throw the spotlight Tuesday on last week’s surprisingly strong January unemployment report, sticking to his forecast only moderate growth ahead.
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The Fed is unlikely to change its plans to keep rates low until it sees more evidence to add to January's strong jobs figures that growth is ramping up.
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House budget committee chairman, Rep. Paul Ryan, (R-WI), explains why he is concerned the Fed could tolerate higher inflation in order to help lower the unemployment rate.
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Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) asks Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke about the impact the Recovery Act had on U.S. job growth.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve could take the historic step this week of announcing an explicit target for inflation, a move that would fulfill a multi-year quest of the central bank's chairman, Ben Bernanke.

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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - A congressional committee on Wednesday Jan. 18 plans to question top bank and securities regulators about a proposed Volcker Rule, a measure that could force big banks to cling onto a wide variety of trades for at least two months. Bank regulators introduced a 298-page proposal, named after an idea suggested by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker. It is intended to limit big insured banks' speculative proprietary derivatives and stock investments. It also seeks to limit big bank investments in hedge- and private-equity funds in an effort to limit risks to the broader financial system. Expected to testify before a House Financial Services Committee panel about the Volcker rule are Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Martin Gruenberg and Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Gary Gensler. Regulators earlier this month extended the period of time interested groups have to comment on the Volcker rule, changing the deadline to submit comments from Jan. 13 to Feb. 13.
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