Obama told Charlie Rose, host of a PBS interview program, that Bernanke was like longtime FBI Director Robert Mueller, who agreed to stay two years longer in the job than he had planned and is to leave in the coming months. Ben Bernanke's a little bit like Bob Mueller, the head of the FBI- where he's already stayed a lot longer than he wanted or he was supposed to. "
LONDON, June 12- If currency turbulence in emerging markets escalates into full-scale investor flight, the U.S. Given all the obvious influences on Fed policy- domestic inflation, jobless youths, long-term unemployment, stuttering credit creation or banking stability- gyrations on markets from Turkey to South Africa or South Korea may seem tangential.
*TiVo shares tumble after $490 mln settlement with Motorola Mobility, others. NEW YORK, June 7- U.S. stocks rose on Friday, setting the Dow and the S&P 500 indexes on track for a weekly gain, after a jobs report suggested the economy still needs the Federal Reserve's support, soothing some concerns that the Fed might end its stimulus efforts sooner than expected.
*Hiring points to economy still in need of Fed's help. NEW YORK, June 7- U.S. stocks rose on Friday after a jobs report suggested the economy still needs the Federal Reserve's support, soothing some concerns that the Fed might end its stimulus efforts sooner than expected.
NEW YORK, June 7- Wall Street was set for a higher open on Friday after a jobs report suggested the economy still needs the Federal Reserve's support, which quelled fears that the Fed may end its stimulus efforts sooner than expected.
*U.S. nonfarm payrolls seen to have risen 170,000 in May. NEW YORK, June 7- U.S. stock index futures were little changed on Friday amid caution ahead of the closely watched U.S. nonfarm payrolls report, which is likely to provide clues on how soon the Federal Reserve will begin to ease back on its stimulus efforts.
If history is any guide, President Barack Obama will pick a candidate to succeed the one-time Princeton University professor sometime during the summer, allowing ample time for the Senate to consider the nominee before a final confirming vote. She began her career as an assistant professor at Harvard in the early 1970 s before shifting over to the Fed.
LONDON, May 31- Sell in May? The Boston- based fund tracker reports redemptions of $224 million from emerging debt in the week to May 29, while equities lost $2.9 billion, their biggest outflow since end-2011.
May 21- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is an optimist about economic growth in the coming decades, rejecting "depressing" views about a slowdown to put his faith in collaborative innovation driven by a jackpot culture for inventors. Bernanke, speaking last weekend to graduates at Bard College at Simon's Rock, in Massachusetts, was having nothing of it.
TORONTO, May 2- It's looking like an unsettling spring in Canadian housing, a market that has proven far more even-keeled and less scary for investors in recent years than in the United States.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will miss the annual Jackson Hole monetary policy symposium this year due to a scheduling conflict, skipping the prestigious event for the first time since taking the helm of the central bank in 2006..
TOKYO/ FRANKFURT, April 18- It is your first day as the new U.S. But playing it could make Ben Bernanke and his global counterparts long for simpler times. "There was a time, not too long ago, when central banking was considered to be a rather boring and unexciting occupation," European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said this week.
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Tuesday, 18 Jun 2013 | 5:00 PM ETAhead of the Fed meeting, the S&P 500 appears headed toward 1,687, StockMonster's Guy Adami says.
Tuesday, 18 Jun 2013 | 6:40 PM ETYou say the name of a stock, and Mad Money's Jim Cramer tells you whether to buy or sell.