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Has the U.S. Federal Reserve's tone regarding its stance toward its asset purchase program(quantitative easing part 2, or QE2), changed?

From the recent comments of Federal Open Market Committee members, it's tough to detect a shift.

For investors, the Fed's QE2 tone is hardly insignificant. A Fed signal that an unwinding of asset purchases is likely before June would affect U.S GDP growth expectations, and, by extension, corporate revenue expectations of many firms for the second half of 2011.

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Macroeconomics, many economists agree, is as much an art as a science. And sometimes it requires the 'reading between the lines' skills of a Kremlinologist during the Cold War.

Here's my reading between the lines analysis of recent Fed statements on housing: more housing-related write-offs (and pain) for certain banks and others with mortgage-backed debt.

Yellen, Bernanke speeches: Signals?

The evidence: first, San Francisco Federal Reserve President Janet Yellen, currently a non-voting member on the Fed's Open Market Committee, delivers a low-key, candid-but-not-alarmist speech Monday to the San Diego Economics Roundtable in which she warns that "things could get worse before they get better" and that problems affecting the financial system could stick around "for some time."

Economist David Wang said Yellen's speech could be interpreted "as her staking out a claim on the dovish [interest rate cut] end of the Fed" were it not for the fact that the measured, always dispassionate Yellen "is not known for politicking or embellished commentary."

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The Fed is sending a signal: More trouble ahead originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President Janet Yellen is on the wires again, becoming the latest Fed governor to note that the U.S.'s economic slowdown is bigger than she expected, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday.

Last week Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and Vice Chairman Donald Kohn also noted that credit market woes fed by subprime mortgage and related asset defaults tipped the scales toward 'the downside risks to growth.'

Yellen said recent data on retail sales and consumer spending were not that encouraging, Bloomberg News reported.

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Fed's Yellen joins economy-too-slow chorus originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 11:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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