Posts Tagged ‘Federal’

Gold falls following Fed policy decision

Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter New York, NY, United States (AHN) – Gold futures fell Wednesday in the aftermath of the Fed’s policy decision on Tuesday. In early afternoon trading, gold futures for April delivery sank $49.50, or 2.9 percent, to $1,645 a troy ounce. The yellow metal is on track for its third [...]

Bernanke forecasts U.S. growth despite recent indicators of economic weakness

Vittorio Hernandez – AHN News Atlanta, GA, United States (AHN) – U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke expressed confidence on Tuesday that the American economy will continue to recover slowly even if recent indicators point to economic weakness. He said despite oil and other commodities price increases, he sees no evidence of broad and enduring [...]

In HBO’s ‘Too Big to Fail,’ the heroes are really zeroes

ProPublica Staff United States (ProPublica) – by Jesse Eisinger HBO’s “Too Big To Fail”—I just caught up with it last night; thank you, HBO On Demand—is extraordinarily revealing about the financial crisis. Only its revelations are almost entirely inadvertent. The movie is set up in the Hollywood conventional way: A gang of misfits, each with [...]

Japanese Stocks Swing Between Gains, Losses; Inpex Advances

Japanese stocks swung between gains and losses as a Federal Reserve signal that it will keep interest rates low boosted confidence in the global economy, while worse-than-expected growth in Japan disappointed some investors. View full post on All Stories

Nuevo revés judicial para el “Tigre” Acosta

La Cámara Federal porteña volvió a rechazar un planteo de excarcelación del represor y reiteró que esa decisión depende de la Corte Suprema de Justicia, que tiene bajo revisión un fallo de Casación Penal que había ordenado liberarlo y está suspendido. El acusado es sometido a juicio en la megacausa ESMA, que acaba de entrar [...]

Rosengren opposes Fed hikes on energy, food prices

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The Federal Reserve would make matters worse by responding to supply shocks in energy and food prices by hiking interest rates, Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren said Wednesday in a speech before the NAIOP commercial real estate development association. Rosengren, who called the current policy stance “very accommodative” and “appropriate,” said past [...]

Regulators Want to Put Ronald Out to Pasture

The Federal Trade Commission has proposed a new set of food advertising guidelines that could leave Ronald McDonald hanging out with Joe Camel in the unemployment line. The new guidelines aim to stop companies from marketing products that are high in sugar, fat, or salt to children, forbidding everything from… View full post on All [...]

Fed chief concerned by US long-term unemployment

WASHINGTON: US unemployment is the worst it has been since World War II, Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke admitted on Wednesday, stressing the damage done by a long jobs crisis. View full post on All Stories

Confident Fed weighs next step

WASHINGTON – The Federal Reserve is increasingly confident in the economy and about to end a $600 billion program to support it. Now for the next step: figuring out how to keep inflation from taking off. View full post on All Stories

En Córdoba seguirá el proceso contra funcionarios judiciales de la dictadura

La Cámara Federal de Apelaciones cordobesa resolvió rechazar los planteos de “prescripción” y “falta de acción” promovidos por las defensas de tres ex funcionarios de la Justicia Federal que están siendo investigados por sus desempeños durante la última dictadura militar. Los camaristas, en su resolución, también piden al juez federal de La Rioja, Daniel Herrera [...]

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