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Optimism at the mall: Retail sales up
Dec 13, 2012
Despite some worries about consumer demand this holiday season, U.S. retail sales rose 0.3% in November.
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What did the Fed just do?
Dec 13, 2012
What did Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke do yesterday? He put speed limit signs up on the freeway.
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Fed announces new plan for ailing economy
Dec 13, 2012
The Federal Reserve has spelled out what it’s going to do to try to juice up the economy. Yesterday, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke announced a new strategy that ties the Fed’s actions to unemployment and inflation rates.
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Bernanke says 'fiscal cliff' is a good name for a scary thing
Dec 12, 2012
Fed chairman Ben Bernanke said he's going to keep interest rates at or near zero as long as the unemployment rate is higher than 6.5 percent, and the inflation rate is 1.5 percent or less.
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Fed wraps up regular policy meeting
Dec 12, 2012
It's the second and final day of the regular policy meeting at the Federal Reserve. Later today we'll hear what, if any, additional monetary stimulus the Fed Board might endorse as the latest round of quantitative easing is set to expire.
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Markets await news from Federal Reserve
Dec 11, 2012
The Federal Reserve committee that sets U.S. monetary policy meets today and tomorrow.
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Fed expected to continue 'QE3'
Dec 11, 2012
Fed boards hopes to nurture housing recovery with purchase of mortgage-backed securities.
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Might the Federal Reserve tie policy to employment?
Nov 14, 2012
The number two official at the U.S. Federal Reserve, Vice Chair Janet Yellen, has thrown her weight behind a major change in Fed policy. The issue is how the central bank should schedule its stimulus policies.
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New technology for Fed's money-counting machines
Oct 22, 2012
Now the Federal Reserve's money-counting machines can read bills worth $20 or less even if they're upside-down. They used to destroy bills that weren't stacked correctly.
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How QE3 could help the economy
Sep 14, 2012
Yesterday Federal Reserve Chief Ben Bernanke laid out the Fed's new economic stimulus plan. It's round 3 of so-called quantitative easing. The Fed will buy $40 billion worth of mortgage-backed securities every month, until it decides the economy has improved.
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