Thursday 11 July 2013

Bernanke - Highly Accomodative Policy Needed for the Foreseeable Future

After all the happy talk

http://www.cnbc.com/id/100877586
Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Wednesday that the U.S. economy continues to need highly accommodative monetary policy. Answering questions at a conference sponsored by the National Bureau of Economic Research Bernanke said that when looking at the Fed's dual mandate on employment and inflation more work needed to be done. He said the 7.6 percent unemployment rate probably "overstates the health of the labor market" and that inflation remains below the Fed's 2 percent target. Moreover, fiscal policy remains "quite restrictive," Bernanke said.
And just after Goldman and JP Morgan had called a bottom in commodities
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timtreadgold/2013/07/02/jp-morgan-mimics-the-goldman-sachs-view-of-an-improving-commodity-outlook/

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Dollar Did This


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