Monday, June 6, 2011

Bernanke Pitching A Perfect Game? - Daily Markets

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Bernanke Pitching A Perfect Game?
Daily Markets
Instead, the Fed rolls out what comes to be known as “QE2,” an open market Treasury bond purchase program along the middle part of the curve. Through it all — we'll call that 2.5 years about six innings of this historic game — the critics railed about ...

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Bernanke Pitching a Perfect Game? - Zacks.com

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Bernanke Pitching a Perfect Game?
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Instead, the Fed rolls out what comes to be known as "QE2," an open market Treasury bond purchase program along the middle part of the curve. Through it all -- we'll call that 2.5 years about six innings of this historic game -- the critics railed ...

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Have Emerging Markets Now Emerged? - Ninemsn

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Have Emerging Markets Now Emerged?
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Meanwhile the DMs are beaten down and remain fragile, with the US recovery stalling ahead of the end of QE2 and European peripherals threatening to bring down the eurozone. Japan has problems of its own. The world has now become heavily reliant on the ...

Sunday, June 5, 2011

8 Reasons to Keep Faith - Moneyshow.com

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8 Reasons to Keep Faith
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So here we are in June, and it's the end of QE2 that's said to be the problem, sometimes by the same people who predicted calamity as soon as that ship set sail. What else can we scare up as portents of the apocalypse? Well, there were a couple of ...

Is Economic Ignorance Bliss for Real Estate Investors? - Real Estate News | BiggerPockets.com (blog)

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Is Economic Ignorance Bliss for Real Estate Investors?
Real Estate News | BiggerPockets.com (blog)
When I asked the audience if anyone knew what QE2 was a few people responded that it was a ship. When I mentioned that it was a Federal Reserve strategy designed to stimulate the economy I was met with blank stares. QE2 is the acronym for Quantitative ...

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Fed's QE2: The Final Voyage - TheStreet.com

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Fed's QE2: The Final Voyage
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- The Queen Elizabeth 2 ocean liner, often referred to simply as the "QE2," was the flagship of the fleet. As her cruising days drew to a close and she embarked on her final voyage, she ran aground on a sandbank near the Isle of ...

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Stock Market Report: Setups, Analysis and Psychology (NYSE:SPY) (NYSE:NUE ... - Inthemoneystocks.com (blog)

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Stock Market Report: Setups, Analysis and Psychology (NYSE:SPY) (NYSE:NUE ...
Inthemoneystocks.com (blog)
The other portion in calculating the slow down is valid based on the economy adapting to the QE2 money and realizing the money (drug) will be taken away from the markets at the end of June. In addition, the next leg down in housing is clearly in motion ...

Saturday, June 4, 2011

Obama Owns the Economy and Average Voters Know It - Big Government

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Obama Owns the Economy and Average Voters Know It
Big Government
Much of this problem can be traced to the failure of the Federal Reserve's QE2 pump-priming campaign. QE2 has not produced growth, but it has produced inflation. In fact, the consumer price index over the past four or five months has been running close ...

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Friday, June 3, 2011

Market Watch - Barron's

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Market Watch
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If they turn against housing, prices could dip further. by Rhodes Capital Management June 1: The Fed ship QE2 [quantitative-easing 2] is coming toward the end of its voyage, on June 30; thus, a "tail wind of stimulus" is in the process of being removed ...

Dimming Outlook Sinks Stocks - Barron's

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Dimming Outlook Sinks Stocks
Barron's
The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended the week down 290, or 2.3%, to 12151, its biggest weekly loss since last August, when the market caught its first whiff of QE2, or the Fed's second quantitative-easing campaign. The S&P 500 lost 31, or 2.3%, ...

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UPI NewsTrack Business - American Chronicle

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UPI NewsTrack Business
American Chronicle
When the Fed stops purchasing securities, that doesn't end QE2, precisely. "The liquidity that's being created remains in the system," said Axel Merk, president and chief investment officer at Merk Investments. Eventually, the Fed will need to figure ...

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UPI NewsTrack Business - UPI.com

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UPI NewsTrack Business
UPI.com
When the Fed stops purchasing securities, that doesn't end QE2, precisely. "The liquidity that's being created remains in the system," said Axel Merk, president and chief investment officer at Merk Investments. Eventually, the Fed will need to figure ...

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Raymond Richman - Jesse Richman - Howard Richman - Ideal Taxes Association

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Raymond Richman - Jesse Richman - Howard Richman
Ideal Taxes Association
In November 15, 2010, I correctly predicted that the beneficial effects of the Federal Reserve's QE2 would either be temporary or would end in disaster. I wrote: “QE2” are the initials of the Queen Elizabeth 2, a great ocean liner which was the sequel ...

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Nightly Business Report - American Chronicle

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Nightly Business Report
American Chronicle
We have to get past the end of QE2, and we`ll see how the bond market reacts to the Federal Reserve no longer buying Treasury bonds. We have to get past some of these negotiations on the federal debt and the deficit. So we need to get past these things ...

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Five Misconceptions Squashed - The Absolute Return Letter June 2011 - Stockopedia

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Five Misconceptions Squashed - The Absolute Return Letter June 2011
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Following QE and the subsequent QE2, many punters have been only too eager to establish causality between the weak US dollar and strong oil prices, and few seem to disagree. Irrespective of the fact that it is highly questionable whether there is such ...