en-us Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:38:15 -0800 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:32:34 -0800 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:19:00 -0800 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:19:43 -0800 Reuters UK) - Federal Reserve officials are increasingly confident the U.S. economic recovery will be durable, but do not see employment or inflation picking up soon, minutes from their November meeting showed.Senior Fed officials, meeting on November 3-4, also expressed concern their plans...]]> Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:16:07 -0800 Reuters UK) - Swift interest rate hikes aimed at containing inflation in product and asset prices could cause another downturn in the slowly recovering economies of the United States and Europe, the head of the World Bank said."Waiting for bubbles to burst and then cleaning up the aftermath is...]]> Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:15:44 -0800 Reuters) - Swift interest rate hikes aimed at containing inflation in product and asset prices could cause another downturn in the slowly recovering economies of the United States and Europe, the head of the World Bank said."Waiting for bubbles to burst and then cleaning up the aftermath is now...]]> Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:00:24 -0800 Reuters) - Federal Reserve officials are increasingly confident the U.S. economic recovery will be durable, but do not see employment or inflation picking up soon, minutes from their November meeting showed.Senior Fed officials, meeting on November 3-4, also expressed concern their plans to...]]> Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:15:13 -0800 AWRE AWRE Reuters UK) - Federal Reserve officials are increasingly confident the U.S. economic recovery will be durable, but do not see employment or inflation picking up soon, minutes from their November meeting showed.Senior Fed officials, meeting on November 3-4, also expressed concern their plans...]]> Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:45:54 -0800 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:20:52 -0800 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:48:47 -0800 Reuters UK) - The Bank of Japan upgraded its economic assessment on Friday, setting itself up for a confrontation with a government pressing for a policy response to deflation and a possible return to recession.The Japanese government published a report that pronounced the economy officially in deflation...]]> Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:00:34 -0800 Reuters UK) - The world's key central banks will not need to start raising policy interest rates until late 2010 due to low inflation and economic slack, and can then proceed gradually, the OECD said in a report published on Thursday.The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said it...]]> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:30:25 -0800 Reuters UK) - Gold edged down on Thursday, taking a breather after hitting a new record above $1,150 per ounce the previous day as inflation fears fuelled by stronger-than-expected U.S. consumer prices added to the already bullish mood.But the dollar gained some ground against a basket of...]]> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:45:43 -0800 Reuters UK) - The recession will not really have ended until unemployment starts to fall, which is unlikely to be soon, Bank of England policymaker Kate Barker said in an interview published on Wednesday."I think I would expect rising unemployment over the next six months or so, but the...]]> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:17:08 -0800 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:47:00 -0800 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:20:20 -0800 GS GS Reuters) - The Federal Reserve's low interest rate policy is meant to encourage investors to move into riskier assets in order to promote economic recovery, and there are no signs currently the policy is resulting in the build-up of a U.S. asset bubble, the central bank's number-two...]]> Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:15:26 -0800 Reuters) - The Federal Reserve's low interest rate policy was meant to encourage investors to move into riskier assets and there are no signs currently that an asset bubble is building in the United States, the central bank's number-two official said on Monday.Fed Vice Chairman Donald Kohn said...]]> Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:00:21 -0800 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:50:00 -0800