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It's Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's turn to weigh in on whether the economy is strong enough to justify the Fed slowing down its easing any time soon.
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Viktor Hjort, executive director at Morgan Stanley, talks about the latest developments in Europe and U.S. rounding up with forecast on foreign exchange markets.
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William Ford, former Atlanta Fed president, and Robert Heller, former Visa USA president & CEO, discuss whether QE3 is still an option for the Federal Reserve.
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Debating whether Bernanke will issue another round of quantitative easing or launch "operation twist," where the Fed buys longer-dated Treasury bonds in an effort to keep rates low, with Joseph LaVorgna, Deutsche Bank chief U.S. economist, and Mark Vitner, Wells Fargo senior economist.
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CNBC's Steve Liesman reports on the Fed's push to lower long term interest rates during day one of a two day meeting.
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Discussing whether long term interest rates are moving lower and what investors can expect from the two-day Fed meeting, as well as its impact on the markets, with Doug Cliggott, Credit Suisse U.S. equity strategist, and Robert McTeer, Commerce Street Capital economic advisor.
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Starts are down 5 percent and permits are up 3.2 percent, so it's a middling number that's not great and not terrible, reports CNBC's Rick Santelli. And Thomas Falk, Kimberly-Clark chairman & CEO, talks about the American consumer.
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Steve Liesman looks at the CNBC Fed Survey, and Nigel Gault, IHS Global Insight, discusses the risks of recession compared to what Wall Street and the general public feel. And Thomas Falk, chairman & CEO, Kimberly-Clark, talks about the economy and credit.
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"The whole issue of peripheral Europe and debt restructuring is a process. It¿s not going to be solved in one big bang and having covered emerging markets for many years this is nothing new," Sailesh Jha, head of Asia market strategy at SEB Bank Singapore told CNBC. "So we¿ll get several different processes taking place and the first one is September 29 and what the German parliament approves in terms of the ESFS facility and I think our core view is that it¿s going to be passed¿.and then we go to the next stage."
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A look ahead of the FOMC meeting, with Larry Adam, Deutsche Bank Global Investment Management, and Michelle Meyer, Bank of America Merrill Lynch Global Research, who weigh in on how the the markets will react.
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The Euro crisis deepens as finance ministers kick the can. Will Europe vote on a bigger bailout fund? The currency trade behind Europe's latest crisis, with CNBC's Melissa Lee and the Money In Motion traders.
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CNBC's David Faber reports UTX is in talks to acquire Goodrich for $110 to $125/share, with CNBC's Melissa Lee and the Money in Motion traders.
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The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment inched higher this month. Digging a bit deeper into the current state of the U.S. economy and what to expect next week, with CNBC's Steve Liesman.
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Alexandra Lebenthal, CEO of Alexandra Lebenthal, told CNBC she was pleased by yesterday's coordinated dollar injections by five central banks. "Global markets are so connected that there has to be a concerted effort on what to do," she said.
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The coordinated injection of dollars into banking systems by five of the world's largest central banks is the biggest news in the markets, Valentijn Van Nieuwenhuijzen, head of strategy at ING Investment Management, told CNBC.
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The Philadelphia Fed Index of Business Activity in the Mid-Atlantic region contracted for the second month in a row. Discussing how to find value in the markets, with Jim Dunigan, PNC Asset Management Group and CNBC's Bob Pisani.
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Insight on what it means when the ECB tries to stem any liquidity crisis for Europe's banks, with CNBC's Steve Liesman.
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Discussing why the U.S. economy is not headed for a recession, with Joseph LaVorgna, Deutsche Bank chief U.S. economist.
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Solutions and analysis of the biggest issue facing the U.S. economy: the country's crippling deficit, with CNBC's Steve Liesman; Jon Corzine, MF Global CEO; Damon Silvers, AFL-CIO director of policy and special counsel; Emil Henry, Henry Tiger, LLC; and Thomas F. Steyer, Farallon Capital Management, LLC, sr. managing member.
