Tag: Ben Bernanke
Bernanke Urges U.S. Congress To Seal A Pact To Avoid The Fiscal Clift
The president of the Federal Reserve (Fed) of the United States, Ben Bernanke on Wednesday urged congressional leaders to reach an agreement to avoid the so-called “fiscal cliff“, which in his opinion is a “substantial threat” to crawl back the country into recession. “Keep putting these difficult decisions will only prolong and intensify the uncertainties,” [...]
Bernanke comes out in defense of his actions at the Fed
The Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Sunday that it is not clear that the central bank’s monetary policy is affecting emerging economies. Bernanke has defended the Fed’s actions often against critics at home who argue that the policy of keeping interest rates near zero while increasing asset purchases hurt savers and future risk ra [...]
The U.S. economy continued with a moderate expansion, according to the Fed
The U.S. economy continued to expand between February and early April, “modest to moderate”, according to data analyzed by the Federal Reserve (Fed) in its Beige Book, which analyzes recent developments in twelve districts. “The hiring of new employees were stable or showed a slight increase in nine of the twelve districts surveyed,” said the [...]
Bernanke Alerts of the Danger of Financial Institutions
The president of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke has called for more regulation and has warned of the danger they pose to traditional banking financial operations of risk in the shade. In a speech at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (Georgia State), Bernanke has called for “both regulators and the private sector begin [...]
Bernanke calls for central banks to monitor the “financial stability”
The Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said today the importance of central banks to lend more attention and take action to “clear the threats to financial stability,” as one of the lessons of the recent crisis. “As far as possible, central banks and other regulators should try to anticipate and off threats to financial stability [...]
Bernanke’s remarks help Wall Street close with gains
A word from the head of the Federal Reserve (Fed) Chairman Ben Bernanke on the weak labor market in the U.S. today were well received on Wall Street, which is approaching its best first quarter since 1998 after Ben Bernanke defended its policy monetary expansion. The main reference of the parquet New York, the Dow [...]
Bernanke remains cautious despite the improvement of labor market in the U.S.
The president of the Federal Reserve (Fed) U.S., Ben Bernanke, said today that it is still uncertain as to maintain the pace of improvement in the labor market, so again defended the expansionary monetary policy applied by the central bank. “Although a wide range of indicators suggest that the labor market has been improving (…) [...]
