Ben Bernanke News

The Fed's new snapshot of business conditions, released today, also underscored the challenges confronting Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and his colleagues as they try to get the economy back on track.

As Wall Street banks retreat in shambles, a new turf war has erupted over who'll take charge of the government's attempts to police them - Chris Cox or Ben Bernanke.

John McCain and Barack Obama miss no opportunity to contrast their differences on taxes, trade and health care.

Current Rate: 2.00% Next Rate Decision: Aug. 5 Market Expectations: The OIS implied rate suggests markets are 16% priced in for a 25bp hike at the next meeting and are pricing in a 41% chance of a quarter-point ...

In his " Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress " before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, U.S. Senate, last week, chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke explained why oil ...

For all their talk about change, the ultimate irony in today's markets is that Washington is so afflicted with legislative gridlock that the "Beltway Boys" couldn't "change" the channel on their flat-screen ...

The Federal Reserve said all 12 of its regional bank districts reported ``elevated or increasing'' price pressures during June and July amid slower economic growth.

The country slogged through slower economic growth and rising prices during the summer, packing a double whammy to people and businesses alike.

This week, with the nation's financial infrastructure crumbling before our very eyes, the nation's top two economic policy makers made their way to the Congress for an extraordinary episode of political ...

As the stuffed shirts on Capitol Hill fulminate about evil speculators driving up the cost of oil, many of us who understand economics and markets better than politicians do have written about the misguided and ...

THE BEAR'S LAIR The death-knell of Bernankeism By Martin Hutchinson The producer and consumer price indexes announced last week were significant in that they sounded the death-knell of Bernankeism.

The nation's leaders are running out of answers to America's economic crisis. The Federal Reserve has no more practical room to push interest rates lower; there's only so much taxpayer money for shoring up ...

Forming London-based entity to automate OTC derivatives processing start to finish.

The United States financial system had a serious scare, the Europeans meandered through a dismal series of economic reports and oil closed almost $20 lower.

Life in a time of persistent inflation requires tinkering with your approach to personal finances.

Call it the big fizzle. The hoped-for second-half economic rebound is looking to be lethargic, with the country straining under high energy prices and fallout from the housing and credit debacles.

The sputtering economy has asserted itself as the main concern for US voters less than four months ahead of presidential elections, and with an avalanche of alarming new data it appears unlikely that will ...

Here's some news you may have missed last week, based on staff and wire reports.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, shown here testifying before the House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday, warned that the U.S. economy faces "numerous difficulties," that the outlook for ...

The Bush administration's pledge to rescue ailing housing finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac raises anew questions about just when the nation's dismal housing market will hit bottom.