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Fed signals low rates will continue 'for an extended period'
Is a Fed rate tightening up ahead any time soon? Despite concern that low, real, short-term interest rates are hurting the dollar. Don't count on it. First, the U.S. Federal Reserve wants to encourage banks to lend -- for auto purchases, and ...
Small-cap growth tough in current interest rate climate
One of the fun parts of investing, whether professionally or as a private investor, is finding that special small-capitalization name and running with it. Typically, a company with a market value, or market capitalization of $1 billion or under, is ...
Fed minutes: Steady as she goes
The August meeting of the Federal Reserve revealed little in the way of "news."
The statement said that risks to the U.S. economy had eased "considerably." Yet they decided to leave interest rates unchanged, saying that rates should remain low to ...
Are low interest rates hurting the U.S. dollar?
Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve have kept interest rates low for some time. Interest rates lie somewhere below a quarter point and a zero, giving people very little reason to save. Why should you save money when inflation could work against you ...
Fed likely to keep rates steady next week; current policy favors small-cap stocks
Given that fear is ruling the equity markets these days, it is easy to lose sight of the basic principles behind investment success. Early this week, once again, all eyes will be on the Federal Reserve, which is expected to keep rates unchanged. I ...
Reason #9: The Fed can't do it either
Historically, the Fed has lowered interest rates to spur spending and investment.
Well, the Fed has already cut interest rates to banks down to essentially zero. The media are screaming about potential inflation due to the trillion dollars the Fed ...
PIMCO's Gross sees Fed cutting rates to 3.50%
Managing Director Bill Gross, who manages the world's biggest bond fund for Pacific Investment Management Company, wrote in a report published on the firm's web site, that he expects the U.S. Federal Reserve to lower key interest rates to 3.50% to ...
Bond rating firms to face greater scrutiny
Both the SEC and Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigation want greater scrutiny of bond rating agencies and their role in the current financial meltdown. The Wall Street Journal reports today that the Senate subcommittee is set to begin an ...
Uncle Sam has a $4.8 trillion dollar interest payment!
Here's a shocker! Over the next decade the U.S. government is expected to rack up $9 trillion in debt. More than half that amount, $4.8 trillion, will be in interest payments.
To further emphasize the depth of the problem, in 2015 interest due will ...
Toxic waste wrapped in gold: How ratings agencies spurred subprime
This morning's Wall Street Journal [subscription required] describes the critical role that ratings agencies such as Moody's Corp. (NYSE: MCO) and McGraw Hill Companies' (NYSE: MHP) Standard & Poor's played in spurring the growth of the of ...
Will the Fed's loose money policy be successful?
Wednesday, the Fed announced that interest rates would remain at zero to 0.25% for at least the next six months.
The Fed statement read as follows: "weak conditions are likely to warrant exceptionally low levels of the federal funds rate for an ...
Alabama county mulls bankruptcy; could be largest failure in history
With irresponsible borrowing and excessive leverage threatening the financial well-being of so many families, at least one county may be joining them in the soup line. Jefferson County, Alabama, with a population of 662,047, according to the 2000 ...
Why is the dollar so weak?
The world of currency trading is a complex affair. Why is this?
Let's look at some factors that play in the minds of currency traders. First you have the strength of a given economy. If the economy is strong, its currency becomes stronger. But wait ...
Bank profits come directly out of your pocket
The rally in the stock market and the return to profitability for some of the top banks has been hailed as a sign of a turnaround -- and proof that the interventionist financial policies of the past year worked. But not so fast. In reality, a huge ...
Fed keeping rates unchanged for now
The Federal Reserve Open Market Committee (FOMC) will announce its decision on interest rates Thursday at the end of a two-day meeting. Although some, including one of my colleagues, believe that the Fed will raise rates (see Sheldon Liber's post, ...
Black Friday expected to be strong, no promises for Christmas
Will JPMorgan chief Jamie Dimon be our next Treasury Secretary?
Gold surges to another new high of $1167 per ounce
