Many have questioned the wisdom of Bernanke's efforts to bail out the financial system as it teetered last year, and his decision to flood markets with newly printed money this year.
The US Federal Reserve chairman Ben S Bernanke has been named as the 'Person of the Year 2009' by the leading American magazine Time.
This was the weakest endorsement ever extended to a chairman in the central bank's 96-year history.
American President Barack Obama on Tuesday extended the tenure of US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke by another term.
Emerging economies should also be mindful of growth.
US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S Bernanke held talks with RBI Governor Duvvuri Subbarao in Mumbai.
It isn't Rajan ignoring money as much as it is Bernanke ignoring capital and exchange rates.
Emerging markets like India and China are witnessing a remarkable transformation, despite a slowdown in economic growth, lifting millions of people out of poverty, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has said.
Geithner and Bernanke held talks with India's major multinational corporations.
The Federal Reserve chairman highlighted the recent recovery in consumer spending and said there were "signs of bottoming" in the housing market.
Key among those would be US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's speech late on Monday evening, fourth-quarter earnings report by information technology major Infosys Technologies and India's industrial production data during the week.
In a speech to the National Economists Club that echoed dovish comments by his nominated successor, Janet Yellen, Bernanke also said that while the economy had made significant progress, it was still far from where officials wanted it to be.
Barack Obama is likely to pick a candidate to succeed Ben Bernanke sometime during the summer.
Markets are also watching a meeting in Moscow of G20 finance ministers for signs of an orchestrated approach to the end of US money-printing, which could help defuse volatility in global markets.
Taking a cue from his hero Abaraham Lincoln, US President Barack Obama should discharge his economic commanders -- Treasury head Timothy Geithner, Fed chairman Ben Bernanke and SEC chief Mary Schapiro -- for not being up to the task, media moghul Steve Forbes has said.
Some investors had speculated that the US central bank might put its plans on hold given the jitters overseas.
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was on Monday awarded to Ben S Bernanke, Douglas W Diamond, and Philip H Dybvig for their research work on bank regulation and how financial crises should be managed.
Yellen is currently Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
The challenge for the RBI in 2024 is likely to be less about containing elevated inflation and more about curbing excessive financial market exuberance and a 'problem of plenty', notes Sajjid Chinoy, Chief India Economist JP Morgan.
The rupee has been Asia's best-performing currency this year, climbing 11 per cent against the dollar. In May 1998, the currency had closed at 39.22 to a dollar, which was actually a deprecation from its 1991 levels of around 20.
On speculative front as well, non-commercials have decreased bullish bets on COMEX silver futures and options to a three-month low.
The failure of SVB was due to idiosyncratic reasons, but shows how higher rates can expose fault lines in unforeseen places, observes Neelkanth Mishra.
The dollar touched a new all-time low vis-a-vis the euro and sank to 71.50. Europe's inflation rate touched 2.9% as crude oil prices also rose. Gold prices were pushed skywards in the fourth quarter of 2007. Silver gained 4 cents to $18.21, while platinum rose $10 to $2036 per ounce. In such a scenario Jon Nadler, senior analyst, Kitco Bullion Dealers Montreal, advises investors to watch oil, listen to Trichet and Bernanke, and follow the dollar.
IMF's Chief Economist Gita Gopinath will leave her job in January next year and return to the prestigious Harvard University, according to the global financial institution.
The rupee had strengthened by 20 paise to close at 55.11 against dollar in Tuesday's trade on fresh selling of US currency by exporters.
'Helicopter drop' was first proposed as an alternative to quantitative easing.
A strong and stable dollar is both in the American interest and in the interest of the global economy, US Federal Reserve Board chairman Ben Bernanke said on Wednesday.
In the backdrop of the US economy slowly improving, the US Federal Reserve chairman Ben S Bernanke has said that stricter regulatory measures would be the 'best' response to tackle housing bubble.
The world economy has been run for too long by finance enthusiasts. It is time that finance sceptics began to take over.
Terming the sudden outflow of $5 billion as "unfortunate", Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday said there should, however, be no room for pessimism as fundamentals of the economy are intact and government is moving ahead on the reforms path.
Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke touched off the biggest one-day rally in US stocks this month by hinting that the Central Bank is almost done with raising interest rates. The indices had their biggest rise since June 29.
sharper-than-expected economic recovery back home, analysts say, can fuel a further rally in domestic cyclicals, industrials, and financials as global central banks continue with their easy money policy.
Fed move based on US economic recovery, which should boost India's exports, narrow CAD and help curb 'imported' inflation
Buffett said the economy is benefiting from improvement in areas that had not previously performed well, particularly homebuilding.
The precious metal spurted to regain Rs 27,000 level after June 24 as it rose in global markets following Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S Bernanke backed sustained stimulus for the for some time.
Rupee has strengthened but is this sustainable.Or are we staring at a slip very soon.
The rupee on Thursday plunged by a whopping 130 paise to hit life-time low of 60 against the US dollar in early trade on the Interbank Foreign Exchange on strong demand for the American currency from banks and importers
Gold has dulled a lot lately but investors could still take a shine to it.
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