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NEW YORK, May 17- The dollar rose against a swath of currencies on Friday, rocketing to 4-1/ 2- year high against Japan's yen as data showing a robust rebound in U.S. consumer sentiment prompted investors to pile on bullish bets.
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NEW YORK, May 17- The dollar soared against a basket of currencies on Friday, reaching a nearly three-year peak as debate over whether the Federal Reserve would wind down its asset buying program later this year gathered pace.
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LONDON, May 17- The dollar rose against a basket of currencies on Friday, trading near a 10- month high as debate over whether the Federal Reserve would wind down its asset buying programme later this year gathered pace.
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LONDON, May 17- The dollar rose against a basket of currencies on Friday, hovering near a 10- month high as debate over whether the Federal Reserve would wind down its asset buying programme later this year gathered pace.
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Currency markets took their cue from comments by John Williams, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, who said the Fed could completely exit its easing by the end of the year. Investors see Williams' thinking as close to that of the Fed's top officials such as Chairman Ben Bernanke and Vice Chair Janet Yellen.
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TOKYO, May 17- The U.S. dollar held firm near a 10- month high against a basket of currencies on Friday after a regional Fed chief said the U.S. central bank could begin easing up on stimulus this summer, sharpening the high-yielding Aussie's fall.
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TOKYO, May 17- The U.S. dollar held firm near a 10- month high against a basket of major currencies on Friday after a regional Fed chief, long seen as a policy dove, said the Fed could begin easing up on stimulus this summer and end it late this year.
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Insight on the markets as they set to close, with Kyle Harrington, Harrington Capital Management, and Phil Noftsinger, CBIZ Payroll Services.
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CNBC's Larry Kudlow lists his choices who should replace Bernanke as Federal Reserve Chairman.
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As the Fed meets this week, all eyes are on Bernanke as Wall Street is buzzing that he will be leaving soon. Who will take his seat? Here's the one name that keeps coming up.
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Janet Yellen is seen as a logical candidate to succeed the Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke, but critics remain wary of her stance on inflation.
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*Gold recovers after 8 percent plunge on Monday. NEW YORK, April 16- Prices for U.S. Investors got sticker shock when yields went below 1.70 percent, "said Chris Rupkey, managing director and chief financial economist at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ in New York."
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*Gold recovers partially after 8 percent plunge on Monday. NEW YORK, April 16- Prices for U.S. Investors got sticker shock when yields went below 1.70 percent, "said Chris Rupkey, managing director and chief financial economist at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ in New York."
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WASHINGTON, April 4- The Federal Reserve should focus its energies on bringing down an elevated U.S. unemployment rate even if inflation "slightly" exceeds the central bank's target, Fed Vice Chair Janet Yellen said on Thursday.
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NEW YORK, March 25- The Federal Reserve must remain very accommodative because the labor market remains "far from healthy" despite some recent overall economic improvement, an influential U.S. central bank official said on Monday.
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SAN FRANCISCO/ NEW YORK, March 21- A crescendo of public warnings from hawkish Federal Reserve officials about the dangers of having a $3 trillion- plus balance sheet appears to have done little to sway the Fed's top ranks.
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LONDON, March 10- Global economic news is improving here and there, but a batch of data due this week is unlikely to shake financial markets' conviction that major central banks are not about to take away the punch bowl. A minority of policymakers at the Bank of England wants to expand its bond buying.
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NEW YORK, March 8- Wall Street expects the Federal Reserve to continue its program of debt purchases through 2013 in an effort to prop up the economy despite evidence of an improved job market, according to a Reuters poll conducted on Friday.
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SAN FRANCISCO, March 8- A surprise pick-up in U.S. jobs growth has boosted the chances of the Federal Reserve raising interest rates sooner than had been expected, but it is likely to take several more months of strong employment data for the Fed to trim its bond purchases and rates won't rise for at least a year after that.
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Based on the number of monetary policy speeches last year and their impact on the 10-year Treasury yield, the winner is...