Payroll Gains Encouraging Even As Earnings, Euro Worries Remain
Nasdaq
Payroll Gains Encouraging Even As Earnings, Euro Worries Remain
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Stock Futures Edge Higher ahead of Jobs Data
International Business Times
Stock index futures rose modestly on Friday as investors cautiously awaited the latest employment report for further evidence the economy was on track to recovery.
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World stocks down as euro debt woes multiply
Associated Press via Yahoo! News
Asian stock markets fell Friday as signs of financial stress emerged in Italy and Hungary, but European shares turned higher as attention turned to the impeding release of monthly jobs data showing gains in U.S. employment.
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BSE Sensex Drops Over Expected Negative Quarterly Results
International Business Times
The BSE Sensex erased gains in late trade on Thursday and dropped for a second session in a row on concerns quarterly results starting next week will mostly show a sharp drop in earnings growth and will weigh down the market in the near term.
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Here's The Beef!
Resource Investor
Gold prices fell back to under the $1,600 pivot point once again as US dollar strength combined with renewed jitters about Europe overcame the effects of geopolitical tensions arising out of the Iranian situation and sellers pressured commodities lower.
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Federal Reserve economist sees slow recovery in 2012
New Bern Sun Journal
One Federal Reserve economist speaking in New Bern Thursday sees shades of gray coloring state and national economic recovery in 2012.
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Federal Reserve: Here's How Fannie And Freddie Are Hurting The Housing Market
Business Insider
The Federal Reserve has put out a white paper on the housing market. There's a lot in there to digest so I'll be picking out points and writing up posts as I go through it.
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Federal Reserve says recovery depends on foreclosure alternatives, loosened credit
The Oregonian
The central bank uncharacteristically suggests several housing policies to boost the industry and the broader economy.
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Farr: The Fed is Creating Moral Hazard
CNBC
Federal Reserve intervention in the economy has profound implications for not only the prices of goods and services, but also financial assets.
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Fed Nears Adopting Price Goal as Bernanke Pushes Openness
BusinessWeek
Federal Reserve officials are nearing agreement on adopting an inflation goal as Chairman Ben S. Bernanke extends his push for improving transparency and communications with the public.
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NY Fed's Dudley pushes more mortgage refinancing
Market Watch
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Building on a Federal Reserve paper on the housing market released earlier this week, a key Fed president on Friday called for new ways to improve the market, notably an increase in mortgage refinancing and "earned" principal reduction for borrowers who are underwater but kept on making their mortgage payments. New York Fed President William Dudley on Friday said he ...
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"Occupy the Dream" plans Jan. 16 protest at Federal Reserve
Washington Examiner
Occupy the Dream, a coalition of African-American churches loosely affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement, plans to hold demonstrations at all 13 Federal Reserve Banks across the country this month. The protests, set for Jan. 16 - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day – will draw clergy, Occupy protesters and "others concerned about income inequality and economic injustice in America," according ...
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Bullard Says Fed 'Very Close' to Consensus on Inflation Target: Tom Keene
Bloomberg
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard said that policy makers at the central bank may be nearing consensus about clearly stating their goals for the rate of inflation.
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Business events scheduled for the coming week
Associated Press via Yahoo! Finance
MONDAY, Jan. 9WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve releases consumer credit data for November, 3 p.m.BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel meets French President Nicolas Sarkozy to discuss the eurozone debt ...
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Jobless Claims in U.S. Dropped 15,000 Last Week to 372,000
BusinessWeek
Fewer Americans filed claims for unemployment insurance payments last week, showing the labor market is starting 2012 on better footing than a year earlier.
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Dollar, stocks up after U.S. jobs data
Reuters via Yahoo! News
LONDON (Reuters) - Stocks, commodity prices and the dollar moved higher on Friday while safe-haven government bonds fell after better-than-expected U.S. jobs data for December confirmed the recovery in the world's biggest economy is strengthening. U.S. stock index futures showed Wall Street opening higher, while the FTSEurofirst 300 index of top European shares extended gains and was up nearly 1 ...
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Stocks Fall Despite Strong Jobs Data
TheStreet.com
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- U.S. stocks were falling as better-than-expected U.S. jobs data that sent unemployment to its lowest level since February 2009 failed to impress investors. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 50 points, or 0.4%, at 12,366. The S&P 500 was falling 4 points, or 0.3%, to 1,277. The Nasdaq was 3 points lower, or 0.1%, at 2,667. Futures jumped briefly Friday after the ...
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Asian Refiners Seek Iran Oil Alternatives on Disruption Threat
BusinessWeek
Refiners in Asia, the destination for 65 percent of Iran's oil exports, are seeking alternative sources of crude in the event of a supply disruption from the world's fourth-largest producer.
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Gold Rises Above $1,620 In Spite Of Strong Dollar
Nasdaq
Gold Rises Above $1,620 In Spite Of Strong Dollar
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CME faces regulatory probe on MF Global: report
Reuters via Yahoo! News
(Reuters) - CME Group Inc is under investigation for its handling of MF Global before the broker's collapse last October, the New York Times said. The probe by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, reportedly focuses on whether CME did enough to safeguard client assets at the giant futures broker. Regulators are still seeking hundreds of millions of dollars of customer funds gone missing ...
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Ben Bernanke's Solution To The Housing Crisis: Renting Foreclosed Homes
The Huffington Post
While millions of foreclosed homes languish on the market at lower and lower prices, new data supports the idea that renting out these foreclosed homes could be the long-sought solution to the housing crisis.
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Swiss right presses central bank chief to resign
The San Francisco Examiner
The Associated Press The Associated Press GENEVA Switzerland's biggest political party has called for the country's central bank chief to resign over private dollar deals conducted while he working to soften the Swiss franc. The nationalist Swiss People's Party, which won more than a quarter of the vote in last year's election, says Philipp Hildebrand is "no longer tenable" as president of the ...
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Obama's Consumer Watchdog Targets Mortgage Firms
Bloomberg via Yahoo! Finance
Richard Cordray 's appointment asdirector of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau movesthe new agency nearer to fulfilling its intended role as a one-stop shop for borrower safeguards. Unlike ...
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Broker who touted subprime mortgages kills himself
Miami Herald
Cliff Popper was in the midst of a federal fraud trial, accused of defrauding investors across the country of more than $100 million.
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Can Europe's Bailout Fund Save Europe?
ETFguide via Yahoo! Finance
Ever since the first sale of bonds for Europe's bailout fund back in January 2011, the appetite to invest in the rescue vehicle has swiftly declined. Clear evidence is the latest sale of...
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