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- Bernanke Suggests Student Lender Subsidies Review
- By Kevin Drawbaugh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chairman of the Federal Reserve has suggested that Congress revisit the issue of government subsidies to student loan providers, according to an April 25 letter made public on Thursday. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, in a letter...
- News items 2008-05-01
- Bernanke Says Markets Healing But Still Not Well
- By Alister Bull SEA ISLAND, Georgia (Reuters) - U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Tuesday that emergency Fed liquidity measures have helped relieve strain in financial markets, but the recovery process remains incomplete. "To date, our liquidity measures appear to have...
- News items 2008-05-13
- BNET Daily Dispatch: Blackstone, Toyota, Russia, and the Fed
- The Blackstone Group is in a deal to acquire Alliance Data Systems, a leading provider of transaction, credit, and marketing services, for $6.76 billion. This deal marks the second business services company buyout this week -- private equity firms are attracted to the sector because the companies tend...
- Blog posts 2007-05-17
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- Fed set to pay interest on banks' deposits
- The Federal Reserve is adding another weapon to its armoury for dealing with the credit crisis, with plans that would allow it to pay interest on deposits from thousands of US banks. The scheme, which the Fed chairman, Ben Bernanke, is requesting permission for from Congress, is...
- Articles 2008-05-08
- Bernanke urges action to stem foreclosures
- WASHINGTON -- A rising tide of late mortgage payments and home foreclosures poses considerable dangers to the national economy, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned anew Monday as he urged Congress to take additional steps to alleviate the problems. "High rates of delinquency and foreclosure can have...
- Articles 2008-05-06
- Feds take overdue first step to curb credit card business
- For years, neither regulators nor lawmakers have taken much notice as consumers cried for help against unfair credit practices. Card issuers were left free to jack up rates and already record-high fees and penalties, both on good customers and those struggling to pay off their debt. At long last, however,...
- Articles 2008-05-06
- Bernanke: Let's fight foreclosures
- WASHINGTON -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned late Monday that the federal government should do more to stave off home foreclosures that threaten credit markets and the economy, even as a Fed survey showed the percentage of banks tightening credit for consumers and businesses reached historic highs. ...
- Articles 2008-05-06
- Credit-card crackdown
- WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve and other regulators initiated steps Friday to end "unfair and deceptive" credit-card industry practices assailing consumers who are already struggling to cope in a bad economy. The proposed rules would be the biggest clampdown on the industry in decades, aiming at protecting...
- Articles 2008-05-03
- To pause or not to pause? Fed puts off question
- WASHINGTON AFP — The Federal Reserve delivered an expected quarter-point rate cut on Wednesday but disappointed those who had been seeking a clear signal for a pause following a series of aggressive rate moves. The action lowered the federal funds rate to 2.0 percent, down sharply from 5.25...
- Articles 2008-05-01
- Fed tipped to make small rate cut, signal pause ahead
- WASHINGTON AFP — The Federal Reserve Tuesday opened a two-day meeting amid expectations for a small rate cut and a signal that it may be the last move in an aggressive easing cycle aimed at averting a deep economic slump. The Federal Open Market Committee headed by chairman...
- Articles 2008-04-29
- Fed may be near end of rate-cut cycle: analysts
- WASHINGTON AFP — Even as an economic storm intensifies, the US Federal Reserve is likely near the end of its interest rate-cutting cycle with policymakers awaiting the impact of a massive stimulus in the pipeline, analysts say. The Federal Open Market Committee headed by chairman Ben Bernanke is...
- Articles 2008-04-27
- Firm Spearheads Effort to Help Struggling Homeowners with Principal Reduction and Short Payment Loans
- SAN DIEGO -- If you are one of the 1.8 million Homeowners that are projected to owe more on your home than what it's worth this year, then a principal reduction loan may be the right medicine for you to avoid foreclosure. On March 4, 2008, Ben Bernanke, Chairman of...
- Articles 2008-04-23
- Debate on Fed role in Bear Stearns rescue continues to rage
- WASHINGTON AFP — Weeks after the rescue of US investment giant Bear Stearns, a debate is still raging on whether the Federal Reserve went too far in trying to staunch a credit meltdown. Some money managers say US markets were soothed by the Fed's actions, but other finance...
- Articles 2008-04-23
- 'Gloomy' recession predictions are on the rise
- WASHINGTON -- The odds the country will fall into its first recession since 2001 are rising sharply. Thirty percent of economists now believe the economy will shrink in the first half of this year, up from 10 percent who thought this in January, according to a survey...
- Articles 2008-04-21
- Bank draws up plan to relieve loans crisis draws up plan to give
- An intervention aimed at breaking the credit log-jam by allowing banks to swap their mortgage-based assets for government bonds is being drawn up by the Bank of England. The Treasury is set to give the go-ahead for the move, which may provoke similar criticisms to that over...
- Articles 2008-04-17
- Talking Ourselves Into Recession
- Market turmoil has already spread like a cancer from New York to Berlin. All over the world, the zeitgeist is turning against the markets, prefiguring a cyclical return to regulation. Luis Alberto Moreno, the Colombian president of the Inter-American Development Bank, has seen this before. He has been an asset...
- Articles 2008-04-14
- G-7 finance officials aim to prevent crises
- WASHINGTON -- Finance officials from the world's top economic powers endorsed a plan Friday aimed at preventing another financial crisis like the credit and mortgage debacles that erupted in the United States and quickly sent tremors around the globe. "Rapid implementation" of the plan "will not only...
- Articles 2008-04-12
- G7 to tackle fight against new financial crises
- WASHINGTON AFP — Group of Seven finance officials gather here Friday to discuss plans to prevent a repeat of what the IMF chief says is the worst financial crisis since the 1930s Great Depression. The meeting of key finance ministers and central bank governors comes amid increasingly grim...
- Articles 2008-04-10
- Keep builders in business
- Notice we haven't been hearing much lately about a soft landing for the economy. Growth has slowed to a crawl, and economists remain fixated on the possibility of more hair-raising developments in the financial system as it grapples with the hardest challenges seen in generations. At the epicenter...
- Articles 2008-04-10
- Market reforms can't wait for crisis to end: Bernanke
- WASHINGTON AFP — Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said Thursday the current financial crisis requires swift action to improve market regulation, endorsing a plan by a US task force. "We do not have the luxury of waiting for markets to stabilize before we think about the future," Bernanke...
- Articles 2008-04-10
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