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. ...

  Skagenfondene ser større gjeldsproblemer i USA og Japan enn Italia og Spania   Mens rentene på tiårige statsobligasjoner i Italia, Spania og Frankrike igår var henholdsvis 5,63 prosent, ...

  Banks to take a hit on US home loans Investors in US home mortgage securities will be forced to write down a “substantial” amount of principal – up to $40bn – for distressed borrowers ...

  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...

  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...

  Soros Warns of ‘Riots,‘ ’Brutal’ Clampdowns & Possible Total Economic Collapse   George Soros is no stranger to Blaze readers. The billionaire currency speculator and philanthropist...

  India to pay gold instead of dollars for Iranian oil. Oil and gold markets stunned   India is the first buyer of Iranian oil to agree to pay for its purchases in gold instead of the US dolla...

  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...

  Kronen skal til himmels?   Global valutastrategsjef David Bloom i HSBC klinker til med ny råsterk kroneprognose. I en fersk analyse spår Bloom kronekursen både på kort og lang sikt. Se t...

  China Gold Hoarding Turns More Traders Bullish   Gold traders are the most bullish in two months after mainland Chinaimported the most metal ever from Hong Kong and investors bought U.S. bul...

  Looming S&P downgrade hits euro zone markets   Standard & Poor's was poised to downgrade the credit ratings of several euro zone countries on Friday, including France and Austria but not Ger...

  Gold Prices at 4-Week High on China Demand   Strong buying demand out of China pushes gold higher for a second day, rising 0.5% to $1,639.60 an ounce. Despite a rise in the dollar index, go...

  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...

  Iran Able to Block Strait of Hormuz, General Dempsey Says   Iran has the ability to block the Strait of Hormuz “for a period of time,” and the U.S. would take action to reopen it, Joint ...