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...

  BOJ Adds to Monetary Easing After Contraction   The Bank of Japan added to monetary easing after exports tumbled and the economy contracted by more than forecast in the fourth quarter. Gov...

  Britain's extreme QE is dangerously counter-productive   Members of the Monetary Policy Committee agreed to expand the UK’s “quantitative easing” program by another £50bn, taking the ...

  BOE Adds 50 Billion Pounds to Stimulus on Euro ‘Concerns’   Bank of England officials pumped another 50 billion pounds ($79 billion) into the U.K. economy to protect a nascent recovery f...

  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...

  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...

  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 ...

  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...

  Gold Proving Safest Commodity as Goldman Forecasts Record: Riskless Return   Gold provided the best returns of all commodities in the past five years when adjusted for volatility, and Goldma...

  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...

  Draghi Makes Euro Favorite for Most-Profitable Carry Trades With Rate Cuts   Betting against the euro may be the most profitable trade in the foreign-exchange market as policy efforts to sta...

  KWN intervjuer JM Eveillard, fondsforvalter av First Eagle fondene med 50 milliarder US$ under forvaltning   With advancing to the $1,680 level and silver firmly above $32, today King World ...

  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...

  China’s Manufacturing Contraction Boosts Case for Monetary Easing: Economy   A Chinese purchasing managers’ index signaled manufacturing may contract for a third month as a slowing econo...

  China’s Slowest GDP Growth in 2 1/2-Years Boosts Scope for Easing: Economy   China’s economy expanded at the slowest pace in 10 quarters asEurope’s debt crisis curbed export demand and...

  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...

  Italy Is Biggest Risk to Euro, Says Fitch   Fitch Ratings on Tuesday pointed to Italy as the euro-zone member that poses the greatest threat to the currency bloc's future, as the lack of a r...

  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...

  Sammenligner gjelds-Europa med Ponzi-skandelen   Italieneske Carlo Ponzi lurte tusenvis av investorer og ble fengslet for å ha brukt ny kapital til å finansiere gammel "moro". - Ganske lik...

  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...