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Wall Street dips after recent rally as Fed statement looms
Federal Reserve statement and news conference. The Fed will release a policy statement at 2:00 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT), which will be followed soon after by a news briefing with Chairman Ben Bernanke. "The early morning action is not surprising given the fact that we've had two days of position jockeying ahead of the (Fed)announcement," ...
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9 militants 3 guards killed in fighting a U.N. building in Mogadishu
An attack by al-Shabaab gunmen on a U.N. compound in the Somali capital of Mogadishu Wednesday left 12 people dead, including nine militants, officials said. A soldier in the Somali National Army told The Wall Street Journal gunmen wearing suicide vests detonated a car bomb opening up the outer wall of the compound so the militants could enter. The African Union Mission in Somalia said the ...
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GLOBAL MARKETS-Shares flat dollar steady before Fed decision
Wed Jun 19, 2013 10:30am EDT * U.S. equities, world share markets little changed; Tokyo up * Dollar steadies against major currencies, weaker vs yen * Oil holds around $106 a barrel; gold edges higher By Leah Schnurr NEW YORK, June 19 (Reuters) - Equities were flat while major currencies and commodities traded within recent ranges on Wednesday as investors awaited a statement from the U.S. ...
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Behind The Mic With Joe Mathieu Interest Rates Going Up
BOSTON (CBS) – The rebounding housing market has a lot to do with the lowest interest rates in generations. But that could change when the Federal Reserve wraps a 2-day meeting Wednesday afternoon. Nothing gets me excited like a good Fed meeting. Brings out my inner wonk. And while this can be pretty dry stuff you should pay attention because this it affects all of us. The Fed has been ...
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Greece talks with troika on technical pause
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Talks between the Greek government and officials from the country's so-called troika of international lenders -- the European Commission, International Monetary Fund and European Central Bank -- on Greece's economic program have made "important progress" but will now pause to allow the "completion of technical work," the EC, IMF and ECB ...
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Treasurys rise ahead of Bernanke appearance
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Treasury prices rose Wednesday as investors awaited a statement and public appearance from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke that may clarify the central bank's monetary-policy outlook. The benchmark 10-year ...
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Bonds Higher SPs Lower Silver Higher
Financials: Bonds are currently 6 higher at 139'24 and the 10 Yr. Notes 2.5 higher at 129'10.0. The markets awaits the results of todays FOMC meeting and will rally or break depending on the language of the comments as to when and/or if there will be a scaling back of the Fed's monthly Bond purchases. I feel that there will eventually be a scaling back but we are a good six months ...
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Sebi to auction Rs 42022cr worth bonds for FIIs
In Mumbai, rentals in sea-facing Haveli on Malabar Hill, NCPA Apts at Nariman Point and Maker Towers at Cuffe Parade, where rentals range between Rs 5.5 lakh and Rs 12 lakh a month, are down ...
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US STOCKS SNAPSHOT-Wall Street opens flat ahead of Fed
NEW YORK, June 19 | Wed Jun 19, 2013 9:32am EDT NEW YORK, June 19 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks opened little changed on Wednesday, holding much of the gains made over the last two days, ahead of a highly anticipated Federal Reserve statement and news conference. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 11.34 points, or 0.07 percent, to 15,306.89. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index shed 0.68 ...
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Russian bank chief Transfer scams funneled $25B
Shell companies are responsible for illegally funneling $25 billion away from Russia, outgoing Central Bank chief Sergei Ignatyev said Wednesday. "In May this year, the Central Bank received an official inquiry from the Interior Ministry about some organizations that were used in illegal financial transactions by suspects in one of several criminal probes," Ignatyev said in a report ...
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New outlet for bonds education
A new financial website, InvestinginbondsEurope.org, has been launched to offer retail investors free access to comprehensive, non-commercial and unbiased education, by the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA). The site, which is the first of its kind, provides fixed income market information in English, German, French, Italian and Spanish in a pan-European ...
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FedEx Sends Wall Street A Surprise $679M Q4 Profit Beats Expectations
(Photo credit: erikleenaars) FedEx made a surprise delivery today, reporting quarterly figures that easily beat expectations. The company earned $303 million, 95 cents a shares, in its fiscal fourth quarter, compared to $550 million, $1.73 a share, a year earlier. Excluding one-time items, FedEx made $679 million, $2.13 a share. That's considerably more than analysts' projection for ...
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U.S. stocks wait for Bernanke
Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke takes center stage Wednesday. At a highly anticipated afternoon press conference, he's expected to discuss when the central ...
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Tesla announces partial recall on some Model S vehicles
According to Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Model S vehicles produced between May 10 and June 8 of this year could contain an issue with the mounting bracket on the left-hand latch of the second row seat. Musk specifically said that the mounting bracket could be "weaker than ...
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Adobe stock up 7 premarket after Q2 profit beats
-0.07% shares rose more than 7% in premarket trading on Wednesday, after the firm reported higher-than-expected second-quarter profit. The maker of Photoshop and Acrobat software beat profit estimates as demand for their flagship software package, Creative Cloud, was up. Creative Cloud is a web-based subscription service and is a switch from the licensing model for the firm since last year. The ...
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FedEx adj. profit of $679 mln sales of $11.4 bln
+1.09% reported its fourth-quarter profit fell to $303 million, or 95 cents a share, from $550 million, or $1.73 a share, a year earlier. Earnings adjusted for business realignment and an aircraft impairment charge were $679 million, or $2.13 a share, compared with $634 million, or $1.99 a share in 2013. Revenue rose to $11.4 billion, from $11 billion a year earlier, the shipping company said ...
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Oil traders game price benchmarks WSJ
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Oil traders often exploit the differences in benchmark prices to get discounts on their purchases, The Wall Street Journal reported in a story Wednesday. In the report, oil traders admit to selling oil at a discount to help drive down benchmark prices, as measured by Platts, and then buying back larger quantities of oil at a discount. While the traders claim the tactic ...
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Era of falling interest rates appears to be over
After 3 decades in which borrowing costs mostly have declined steadily to rock-bottom levels, the long-term path of interest rates is headed up, experts ...
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Global Markets Europe Higher in Choppy Trade
CNBC's Ross Westgate reports on all the market moving events from Europe, as investors await the Fed's policy statement following its two-day ...
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U.S. oil boom undermines OPEC
Surging U.S. oil production and greater energy conservation are helping keep a lid on oil prices worldwide and may be limiting the sway OPEC holds over world ...
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Men are disappearing from the U.S. workforce
In the 1950s, nearly every man in his prime working years was in the labor force, a category that includes both those who are employed and those actively applying for jobs. The "participation rate" for men ages 25 to 54 stood at 97.7% in early 1956, but drifted downward to a post-war record low of 88.4% at the end of 2012. (It ticked up very slightly at the start of this year to ...
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Ex-Fed Governor Meyer Obama has fired Bernanke
are telling for Bernanke's future at the Fed, said Former Federal Reserve Governor Laurence Meyer in an interview on CNBC Tuesday. "He essentially fired Ben Bernanke on the spot and gave him a fairly tepid testimonial afterward. It's time to really now focus on who the next chairman might be," said Meyer, who was a Fed governor from 1996 to 2002. Later in the interview, Meyer ...
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HSBC cuts China growth view for 2013 2014
MADRID (MarketWatch) -- HSBC on Wednesday cut its growth forecasts for China, citing faster reform moves that could hurt growth, along with weaker-than-expected data flows. Qu Hongbin, chief economist for China at HSBC, said their 2013 and 2014 gross domestic product views now stand at 7.4%, versus prior forecasts of 8.2% and 8.4%, respectively. Consensus is calling for China growth of 7.8% in ...
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Wall Streets lawfare strategy against regulation | Heidi Moore
already weakened state of the attempt at financial regulation - like taking a hammer to a housefly. Still, a phalanx of injured parties - 11 states, two groups dedicated to conservative economic agendas and one Texas state bank - argued that Dodd-Frank is unconstitutional. Their complaints all center around the part of Dodd-Frank that wants to solve the problem of "too big to fail" by ...
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Karzai suspends security talks with U.S. over U.S. talks with Taliban
Afghan President Karzai suspended security talks with the United States Wednesday, saying he was doing so to protest U.S. outreach to the Taliban. In a statement, Karzai said the Afghan government suspended the latest round of talks with the United States, already begun in Kabul, "in view of the contradiction between acts and the statements made by the United States of America in regard to ...
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Kyrgyzstan must stick to long-term development plans
While news of the political unrest and government change in early 2010 dominates the world headlines, Kyrgyzstan faces an uncertain future as long-term plans for infrastructure development are thrown into disarray and uncertainty.
Kyrgyzstan is one of the poorest countries in Central Asia and stands to benefit greatly from long-term development plans initiated under the auspices of the Central Asian Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Program, if the interim government can move on from the current political crisis and stabilize the country’s economy and political future. Read more
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