S&P 500 Cheapest to Bonds on Zero Fed Rates   The Standard & Poor's 500 Index is approaching the cheapest level ever compared with bonds as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke's zero-pe...

  Fed Should Heed Lessons of 1920 Recession Response, Grant Says: Tom Keene   The U.S. has been “overmedicated” by public policy and should consider the government’s 1920’s response to...

  Bernanke: 8.3% Unemployment Understates Job Market Weakness   Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said the 8.3 percent rate of unemployment in January understates weakness in the U.S. ...

  Kyle Bass Urges Texas Fund to Hold Gold Hedge   Kyle Bass, the Dallas hedge-fund manager, urged overseers of Texas (STOTX1)’s state university endowment, the second-largest U.S. college f...

  Getting back to the gold standard   The legendary Wall Street writer, publisher of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, has been mentioned by two of the rivals for the Republican presidential n...

  BlackRock’s Doll Says QE3 Unlikely in Contrast to Gross   BlackRock Inc., the world’s biggest asset manager, says the Federal Reserve will refrain from conducting a third round of debt p...

  US Home prices drop more than expected in November: S&P Case-Shiller   Single-family home prices fell more than expected in November, highlighting the struggle for a sector yet to make a mea...

  Silver Powering 20 Million Homes as Supply Surplus Subsides: Commodities   Record industrial demand for silver and resurging investor interest is diminishing a supply surplus, driving the me...

  Fed's Dudley warns inflation may fall further   Inflation is likely to remain below the Federal Reserve's objective for several years, said New York Federal Reserve President William Dudley ...

  Volcker confirms central bank need to suppress gold to stabilize exchange rates at 'critical point'   Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker today defended government intervention in t...

  Bernanke has "finger on trigger" for new bond buys   The Federal Reserve has moved closer to embarking on a new round of its controversial money-pumping after the central bank and its chairm...

  Eric Sprott - Aggressive Chinese Buying Will Spike Gold Price   Today billionaire Eric Sprott told King World News the Chinese cannot continue to buy gold as aggressively as they have been w...

  Fed: Benchmark Rate Will Stay Low Until Late 2014   Federal Reserve officials said their benchmark interest rate will stay low until at least late 2014 and anticipate that unemployment will...

  IMF chief urges action to avoid ‘1930s moment’   The chief of the International Monetary Fund warned on Monday that the global economy could slide into a “1930s moment” unless Europe...

  Bernanke Doubles Down on Fed Mortgage Bet   Ben S. Bernanke is signaling his willingness to double down on a three-year bet that’s failed to revive housing, showing the extent of the Feder...

  'Vital' that Fed use all its tools, FED's Williams says   The Federal Reserve must be prepared to use all of its policy tools, especially now that Congress is cutting spending, said John Wil...

  Fed's Pianalto hints she'd support more easing   Sandra Pianalto, the president of the Cleveland Fed who has rotated to become a voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee, on Tuesda...

  Fed may have pushed risk-taking too far: FED’s Esther George   The Federal Reserve may have pushed investors too far in search of returns, leading to a "mispricing of risk," said Esther Ge...

  Krisen er ikke over - Styringsrenten kan bli senket til ny rekord i Europa   Etter at Den europeiske sentralbanken (ECB) i fjor kuttet styringsrenten i eurosonen, fra 1,5 prosent den 9. nove...

  Fed Policy Makers Urge More Housing Aid   Three Federal Reserve policy makers said the U.S. government should try new ways to spur the housing market without agreeing about how much more the...

  Gold Posts Longest Slump Since 2009   Gold fell, capping the longest slump since October 2009, and silver tumbled to a three-month low as Europe’s deepening debt crisis drove commodities a...

  U.S. Home Prices Fell More Than Forecast   Residential real estate prices dropped more than forecast in the year ended October, showing a broad-based decline that indicates the U.S. housing ...

  Bini Smaghi Says ECB Should Use QE If Deflation Risk Arises   European Central Bank Executive Board member Lorenzo Bini Smaghisaid that policy makers shouldn’t shirk from using quantitativ...

  Euro zone gets vast bond monetization through the back door   Securities lawyer Avery Goodman explains at Seeking Alpha tonight how the European Central Bank's new long-term refinancing oper...