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Ben Bernanke on Thursday urged Congress not to take away the Federal Reserve’s bank supervision powers or curtail its independence even as he admitted that the US central bank had made regulatory mistakes in the run-up to the...
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Senate confirmation vote on a second four-year term as chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben S. Bernanke finds himself under attack from both ends of the political spectrum. Libertarian Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.), abetted by a number of liberal Democrats,...
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Bernanke on Thursday offered a strong defense of his handling of last year's near collapse of the economy, telling a Senate panel considering his pending reconfirmation that his actions helped avert an even greater crisis. The nation's central banker...
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FOR the first time in 70 years, US government Treasury bills are paying no interest while shares continue to appreciate -- a divergence in US financial markets that might be perilous if Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke didn't know all about 1938.
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The Indian rupee extended its drop in afternoon trade on Friday weighed by losses in the domestic sharemarket and the dollar's gains versus other major currencies overseas. At 2:50 p.m. (0920 GMT), the partially convertible rupee was at 46.64/65 per dollar,...
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Fissures are developing among policy makers at the Federal Reserve as they debate how and when to start raising the benchmark interest rate from its current level just above zero. With Fed officials forecasting that unemployment will average 9.8 percent...
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Australia need to financially support poorer countries bearing the impact of climate change, a new World Bank report says. The bank's World Development Report has called for urgent action on climate change, saying the world must act now to avoid catastrophic...
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Mui Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, September 15, 2009; 9:44 AM Retail sales jumped the most in three years in August, according to data released this morning, driven by the federal Cash for Clunkers program and back-to-school spending. The Commerce...
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Bernanke said Tuesday, but the job market is likely to remain weak for some time. Taking questions following a speech at the Brookings Institution, Bernanke gave his most explicit endorsement yet to the idea that the economy bottomed out sometime this...
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As Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke struggled to hold the economy together last August, he was distracted by a more personal financial problem: He and his wife were victims of identity theft. Mr. Bernanke's brush with the banking system began when...
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