WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Banking Committee said on Friday it will hold a hearing on Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's renomination to ...
RICHMOND, Virginia (Reuters) - Top Federal Reserve officials on Tuesday struck differing notes on the likely pace of the U.S. economic recovery and ...
Chairman of the US Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke, left, talks with US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, centre, and others unidentified, during the G20 Finance Ministers meeting at St Andrews. Scotland. Saturday Nov. 7, 2009. The world's top financial ministers and central bankers ...
File - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke addresses a meeting of the Chicago Economic Club, in this June 15, 2006 file photo taken in Chicago. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and his colleagues, wrapping up a two-day meeting Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009 are ...
The US Federal Reserve is widely expected to hold interest rates near zero at a monetary policy meeting Wednesday, in a bid to nurture a fragile recovery from recession. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), headed by Fed chairman Ben Bernanke, likely ...
As the credit crisis ends, a bigger one is just beginning “The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press… that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost.” – Ben Bernanke The U.S. ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With America still in a defensive crouch after a crushing recession and financial meltdown, the U.S. Federal Reserve is unlikely to soften its promise of rock bottom interest rates soon. Nascent signs of recovery have been stacking up and ...
Bernanke prods Congress to enact financial overhaul to prevent future crises Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke prodded Congress Friday to enact legislation overhauling the nation's financial regulatory system to prevent a repeat of the banking and credit debacles that had thrust the ...
CHATHAM, Massachusetts (Reuters) - U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Friday laid out his most detailed description yet of the central bank's post-crisis approach to regulation and said requiring big banks to hold more capital was under consideration. Speaking at a ...
FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2009 file photo, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the House Financial Services Committee. The Federal Reserve for the first time would police banks' pay policies to ensure they ...
Wall Street economists expect jobless claims ticked up last week after falling sharply The number of newly laid-off workers seeking unemployment benefits likely ticked up last week, after dropping sharply the previous two weeks. A Labor Department report is projected to show ...
Bernanke weighs pros, cons in Congress moving up effective date on credit-card protections Moving up the effective date of tough new regulations to protect credit card customers from sudden interest rate increases could be a double-edged sword, according to Federal Reserve Chairman ...
