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Interest Rates and the Fed Inflation Target
By MoneyRates team | Money-Rates Columnist
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, a long-time proponent of inflation-targeting, has set a specific inflation target of 1.5% to 2% over three years in a semi-annual FOMC report to Congress. Bernanke and the Fed were thought to have set a target as low as 1% to 2% so the “new” target range gives the Fed a [...]
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Investing in 2008
By MoneyRates team | Money-Rates Columnist
Many predictive models and some trading platforms like intrade.com are rating the probability of a recession in 2008 at greater than 50%. An outlook this for the coming year makes investing safely more of a challenge. When you consider that interest rates have fallen a point since last year and are expected to fall [...]
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INVESTING UPDATE
By MoneyRates team | Money-Rates Columnist
Dividend Stocks - Yields have increased in 2007 on dividends offered by companies in the S&P500 Index.Examples of large companies with strong earnings which pay dividends include: US Bancorp (USB) 4.61%, Verizon (VZ) 4.30%, Citigroup (C) 4.10%, AT&T (T) 3.64%, and Pfizer (PFE) 4.31%.
Money Funds - GE Capital is offering their GE Interest Plus Notes [...]
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