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Raymond James Financial CEO Paul Reilly Sings Equities For The Long-Term
Thursday, June 6, 2013 - 2:24pm | 322Read More...Paul Reilly, Raymond James Financial (NYSE: RJF) CEO, appeared on CNBC's Squawk Box Thursday morning to talk about his views on investing, tackling fixed-income investments like bonds, and preaching the value of good foresight. Reilly kicked off by saying that it's not a good time to be long at...
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Fidelity's Jurrien Timmer Goes Over Everything, From JGB Volatility To Gold
Thursday, May 30, 2013 - 3:21pm | 758Read More...Jurrien Timmer, Director of Global Macro & portfolio manager at Fidelity Investments, appeared on CNBC Squawk Box on Thursday where he discussed everything from the volatility of the JGB to secure cash cushions. "I think what we're seeing in Japan is that the unintended consequence has come...
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Roger Altman And Salient Partners' Lee Partridge On Fed Tapering
Tuesday, May 28, 2013 - 10:44am | 576Read More...Roger Altman, investment banker, private equity investor and former United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury and Lee Partridge, Chief Investment Officer and Portfolio Strategist at Salient Partners, both spoke on CNBC's Squawk Box this morning to discuss the current state of the market and...
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Here Are 12 of Ben Bernanke's Greatest Quotes
Friday, May 10, 2013 - 11:08am | 85Read More...Friday morning, much of the financial world tuned into Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's remarks at the annual Conference on Bank Structure that took place in Chicago. Among the highlights of the speech was Bernankes' unexpected deviation from his prepared remarks, which found him mentioning...
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Benzinga Market Primer: Thursday, March 21
Thursday, March 21, 2013 - 6:39am | 936Read More...Futures Flat on Global Manufacturing Data U.S. equity futures were flat in early pre-market trade following manufacturing PMI's from both China and the eurozone. China's HSBC Flash Manufacturing PMI rose to 51.7 in March, reversing February's drop and easing fears of a renewed Chinese slowdown....
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Central Bank Preview: Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, Bank of England All Set to Act
Monday, July 30, 2012 - 9:57am | 602Read More...All eyes this week are on the three most important central banks in the world as the global economy continues to slow. The root of the global slowdown can be traced to Europe, whose drive to austerity has forced governments to curb spending, sending nations across the continent back into recession...
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Benzinga Market Primer, Monday July 30
Monday, July 30, 2012 - 7:07am | 756Read More...Markets await interest rate decisions from multiple central banks this week as the European Debt Crisis continues to drag on global growth. Comments from European politicians and leaders last week indicated that the European Central Bank is set to launch a new round of crisis fighting measures...
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No QE Just Yet, Fed Minutes Suggest
Wednesday, July 11, 2012 - 4:23pm | 301Read More...Let's wait and see on QE3. That was the market's read of the Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) minutes released this afternoon, creating a swift and negative investor response. The Dow Jones Industrial Average moved 100 points lower intraday on the announcement, and stocks...
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Previewing the Fed Minutes
Wednesday, July 11, 2012 - 12:13pm | 298Read More...The minutes of the June meeting of the Federal Reserve are set to be released at 2 p.m. EST Wednesday, and markets will be watching closely for talk of further quantitative easing and the rationale behind the decision to extend Operation Twist. In June, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC)...
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Embedded Examiners Always Married the Natives, but Now Their Bosses Do Hook Ups
Tuesday, May 29, 2012 - 11:53am | 3389Read More...Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Ben Protess have written an extraordinarily important column for the New York Times about embedded examiners at JP Morgan. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/26/business/regulators-role-at-jpmorgan-scrutinized.html?_r=2&hp Embedded examiners are federal...
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What a Greek Exit Would Look Like (FXE, FEZ, GLD, SPY, QQQ, GSG, CS)
Thursday, May 24, 2012 - 11:23am | 709Read More...It feels as though the market went from discussing a Greek exit as a very unlikely event to now the most likely endgame for Europe. The question is, what would a Greek exit actually look like and how would it play out? The answer can be seen in the way that the US authorities, along with other...
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Recovery in Housing, or Battle of the Little Big Horn?
Monday, March 19, 2012 - 2:31pm | 1247Read More...The CEO of Remax, Margaret Kelly, said on CNBC in October of 2007 that it was a “Perfect Time to Buy”. Jim Cramer blew the trumpet call for housing bulls on CNBC in 2009 and a calvary of housing bulls rode up to join them in 2010 and 2011. They and a host of others led the charge on their...
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Gold, Silver Take a Dive as No QE3 In Sight
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - 4:58pm | 235Read More...The gold futures took a huge dive earlier today after the Fed chairman, Ben Bernanke's, congressional testimony. Bernanke did not give any signals that the Fed would be considering any new easing to accelerate the economic growth in the United States, which sent the U.S. dollar and PowerShares DB...
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Fed Buys $2.5 Billion During POMO as Part of Operation Twist
Friday, November 18, 2011 - 12:03pm | 75Read More...The New York Federal Reserve purchased $2.541 billion in U.S. Treasury debt during its permanent open market operations (POMO) today as part of its Operation Twist program. Dealers submitted $6.542 billion worth of debt, with the government receiving almost three bids for every one it accepted....
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Fed Buys $1.7 Billion During POMO
Friday, October 7, 2011 - 11:47am | 75Read More...The New York Federal Reserve purchased $1.72 billion in U.S. Treasury debt during its permanent open market operations (POMO) today as part of its Operation Twist program. Dealers submitted $7.697 billion worth of debt, with the government receiving almost four bids for every one it accepted....
