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• Market plunges more than 200 points as economic worries mount

  Published: September 7, 2007, 8:15 am

  Tags: Aapl, Alan Greenspan, Alangreenspan, Ben Bernanke, Benbernanke, Bsc, Economy, Featured, Federal Reserve, Federalreserve, Housing Market, Housingmarket, Inflation, Mer, Msft, Subprime Mortgages, Subprimemortgages, The Fed, Thefed

  Filed under: Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Apple Inc (AAPL), Merrill Lynch (MER), Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Bear Stearns Cos (BSC) A weaker-than-expected jobs report along with statements by former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan that the current market turmoil was identical to previous ones has sent the stock market into a tailspin

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• Market plunges more than 200 points as economic worries mount

  Published: September 7, 2007, 8:15 am

  Tags: Aapl, Alan Greenspan, Alangreenspan, Ben Bernanke, Benbernanke, Bsc, Economy, Featured, Federal Reserve, Federalreserve, Housing Market, Housingmarket, Inflation, Mer, Msft, Subprime Mortgages, Subprimemortgages, The Fed, Thefed

  Filed under: Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Apple Inc (AAPL), Merrill Lynch (MER), Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Bear Stearns Cos (BSC) A weaker-than-expected jobs report along with statements by former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan that the current market turmoil was identical to previous ones has sent the stock market into a tailspin

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• Most Americans think a recession is coming

  Published: October 25, 2007, 3:32 am

  Tags: Appl, Consumer Confidence, Consumer Spending, Consumerconfidence, Consumerspending, Economy, Federal Reserve, Federalreserve, Inthenews, Retail Sales, Retailsales, Survey, The Fed, Thefed

  Filed under: Consumer experience, Apple Inc (AAPL), Economic data, Federal ReserveAre people on Wall Street and Main Street living in the same economy? Sometimes it's tough to tell. A whopping 65% of Americans now believe that a recession is coming in the next year and 51% believe the economy is doing poorly, according to a Bloomberg/Los

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• Minutes of Federal Open Market Committee, October 30-31, 2007

  Published: November 20, 2007, 2:27 pm

  Tags: Federal Open Market Committee Fomc, Federal Reserve, Mortgage Industry Press Release, Mortgage News, Minutes, Federalreserve, Committee, Fomc, Meeting, Ordinarily, Addendum, Board

  the Board's web site at www.federalreserve.gov/fomc. Minutes of Federal Open Market Committee, October 30-31, 2007 (320 KB PDF) No Tags

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• Declining oil + Positive Fed talk = Market rally

  Published: November 28, 2007, 11:01 am

  Tags: Bac, Cmcsa, Donald Kohn, Donaldkohn, Featured, Federal Reserve, Federalreserve, Financial Stocks, Financialstocks, Goog, Jpm, Leh, Msft, Nasdaq, Nyse, Stock Market, Stockmarket, Txn

  Filed under: Good news, Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Citigroup Inc. (C), JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Bank of America (BAC), Comcast Cl'A' (CMCSA), Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Procter and Gamble (PG), Texas Instruments (TXN), Lehman Br Holdings (LEH), Bear Stearns Cos (BSC), Housing, Federal ReserveThe market today took its head out of the oven, thanks

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• Federal Reserve Will Offer $20 billion

  Published: December 19, 2007, 2:55 pm

  Tags: Credit Crunch, Credit Deterioration, Federal Reserve, Housing Market, Housing Videos, Mortgage Industry Press Release, Notification, Monetarypolicy, Awards, Auction, Rounding, Federalreserve, Facility, Submission

  Term Auction Facility (www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/taf.htm). Description of Offering and Auction Parameters Offering Amount: $20 billion Term: 35-day loan Bid Submission Date: December 20, 2007 Opening Time: 10 a.m. EST Closing Time: 1 p.m. EST Notification Date: December 21, 2007 Settlement Date: December 27, 2007

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• Minutes of Federal Open Market Committee From December 6, 2007

  Published: January 3, 2008, 5:23 am

  Tags: Federal Open Market Committee Fomc, Federal Reserve, Mortgage Industry Press Release, Mortgage News, Minutes, Federalreserve, Fomc, Committee, December, Meeting, Monetary, Ordinarily

  the Board's web site at www.federalreserve.gov/fomc. Minutes of Federal Open Market Committee, December 6 and 11, 2007 (121 KB PDF) 2008 Monetary Policy Releases No Tags

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• How Lyndon Johnson Dealt With the Fed

  Published: January 17, 2008, 3:11 am

  Tags: Lyndonbainesjohnson, Federalreserve

  First time I have heard this one. Roger Lowenstein reports for NYT: [Fed chairman William McChesney] Martin ran into even tougher pressure from Lyndon B. Johnson, who tried to browbeat him into easing rates. One version of what occurred, according to Richard Fisher, the current head of the Dallas Fed, who has studied the history, is that

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• More Evidence Le Fed Doesn't Have Le Clue

  Published: January 25, 2008, 12:08 pm

  Tags: Benbernanke, Henrypaulson, Federalreserve

  It appears that some of the downward pressure on global stock markets on Monday came from the unwinding by Soci t G n rale of the open positions of rogue trader, Jerome Kerviel. The rule of thumb is that you immediately unwind positions when you find some type of unauthorized trading. But, perhaps a different approach should have been taken

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• 3/18 FOMC Meeting Minutes Released

  Published: April 9, 2008, 10:39 am

  Tags: Bear Stearns, Ben Bernanke, Federal Open Market Committee Fomc, Federal Reserve, Mortgage News, Mortgage Video, Calendars, Fomc, Minutes, Monetarypolicy, Committee, Meeting, Federalreserve, March

  website at http://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/fomc.htm#calendars. No Tags

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• Market highlights for next week: HAL, T, LMT and MSFT reporting earnings

  Published: April 18, 2008, 11:31 am

  Tags: Amazon, Amzn, Att, Bac, Bank Of America, Bankofamerica, Biovail, Bvf, Cbh, Cfc, Commerce Bancorp, Commercebancorp, Conference, Countrywide, Dal, Delta, Earnings, Fed Reserve, Federal Reserve, Federalreserve, Fedreserve, General Motors, Generalmotors, Hal, Halliburton, Hershey

  Filed under: Earnings reports, Conventions and conferences, Annual meetings, Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo! (YHOO), Amazon.com (AMZN), General Motors (GM), AT and T (T), Halliburton (HAL), Bank of America (BAC), Hershey Co (HSY), Mattel, Inc (MAT), Wendy's Intl (WEN), United Parcel'B' (UPS), Lockheed Martin (LMT), Delta Air Lines (DAL)Monday, April 21

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• Fed already getting an earful on proposed credit card rules

  Published: May 13, 2008, 9:21 am

  Tags: Living With Credit, Research Regulation Industry Reports, Creditcard, Federalreserve

  Consumers aren't wasting any time letting the Federal Reserve Board know how they feel about sweeping new credit card rules proposed on May 2. The proposed rules would outlaw double-cycle billing on credit card accounts, give consumers a "reasonable amount of time to pay monthly bills" and limit fees and interest rate increases on

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• Credit card activity climbs in March

  Published: May 7, 2008, 4:21 pm

  Tags: Credit Card Miscellany, Research Regulation Industry Reports, Creditcards, Federalreserve

  Credit cardholders are apparently charge-happy once more: After a slowdown in February, credit card activity ramped up in March. According to the latest Federal Reserve release on consumer credit, revolving credit (of which about 98 percent is comprised of credit card debt) surged at an annual rate of nearly 8 percent in March. That

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• Credit card charge-off rates crept upward in early 2008

  Published: May 22, 2008, 4:11 pm

  Tags: Research Regulation Industry Reports, Creditcard, Debt, Federalreserve

  Percentage of charge-off rates on credit card loans for all commercial banks: 2000 to Q1 2008. Source: Federal Reserve Board Banks continued to charge off uncollectable credit card debts during the first three months of 2008 at rates slightly higher than those seen in 2007 and 2006, according to the latest figures released Wednesday by

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• Fed moves to close 'timing' loophole in credit card payments

  Published: May 23, 2008, 5:07 pm

  Tags: Research Regulation Industry Reports, Federalreserve, Regulationz

  Tired of getting hit with late fees for credit card payments that arrive hours after a 1 p.m. or noon payment deadline? Credit card issuers would no longer be able to set early morning or other seemingly arbitrary deadlines for payments under proposed Truth in Lending Act (TILA) amendments under consideration by the Federal Reserve. According to

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