Dollar firms as US Federal Reserve suspense builds

The Federal Reserve Building on Constitution Avenue in Washington. is a Mercatus Center Affiliated Senior Scholar and the Charles A. Dana Professor of Economics and department chair at St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY. Since the financial ...

Markets were relatively flat on Wednesday as the Federal Reserve announced that factory output fell in April. The numbers showed that auto manufacturers slowed on the number of cars produced along with mostly all other industries cutting back on ...

On Wednesday morning, at 10 AM ET, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will testify on the outlook for the U.S. economy before a Joint Economic Committee of Congress. Along with the subsequent release of the minutes from the FOMC's April 30-May 1 ...

TORONTO - North American markets surged ahead at the open Tuesday as investors awaited for signs from the U.S. Federal Reserve on when the central bank will scale down its $85-billion bond buy back program. A taxi across Bay Street in Toronto's ...

LONDON, May 21 (Reuters) - European shares were likely to retreat on Tuesday, with concerns that the U.S. Federal Reserve might begin slowing its bond purchases seen prompting investors to take some profits from the market's rally to five year ...

Concierge Auctions announces the 10.2-acre estate with five buildings — a perfect place to live, work and play — will now sell to the highest bidder on May 30th in cooperation with Hilton & Hyland, an affiliate of Christie's International Real ...

GALLIPOLIS, Ohio Ohio Valley Bank President and CEO Tom Wiseman Banks that are state-chartered, like Ohio Valley Bank, are divided into those that are members of the Federal Reserve System (state member banks) and those that are not (state nonmember ...

Worldwide Cloud Services Market To Surpass $109 Billion In 2012 Some stock-market observers believe this is good news because it indicates the country's economy is doing well: Look, the real-estate market is also booming, as Bloomberg News has noted ...

Ann Saphir contributed to this post Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Narayana Kocherlakota has gone from being one of the U.S. central bank's more hawkish characters to arguably its most dovish. In line with this transformation ,Kocherlakota ...