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S&P National Bond Index
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3.00% |
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S&P California Bond Index
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2.96% |
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S&P New York Bond Index
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3.13% |
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S&P National 0-5 Year Municipal Bond Index
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0.70% |
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400.09 |
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S&P U.S. Preferred Stock Index
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848.03 |
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S&P U.S. Preferred Stock Index (CAD)
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636.26 |
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S&P U.S. Preferred Stock Index (TR)
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1,701.05 |
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S&P U.S. Preferred Stock Index (TR) (CAD)
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1,276.26 |
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S&P REIT Index
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174.07 |
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S&P REIT Index (TR)
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425.30 |
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S&P MLP Index
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2,469.58 |
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S&P MLP Index (TR)
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5,428.50 |
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Ben at the controls
Economy needs Bernanke to increase cash supply |
NEW YORK POST - Aug. 8, 2010 - by Jonathon Trugman
That noise you hear, that's the sound of helicopters in the distance.
While they may be in the distance, they are closer than they have been in quite some time, and chief pilot Ben Bernanke is leading the squadron.
We are now coming up on three months of very anemic economic growth, so limp many economists fear we are closer than we have ever been to a double dip. GDP registered a paltry 2.4% in the second quarter, a very disappointing number, especially after the economy has fallen so far despite the huge spending in the stimulus plan.
The only real economic successes we have had have been TARP, and the Fed's first round of quantitative easing, which ended in March. TARP was primarily the brainchild of former Treasury Chief Hank Paulson.
TARP turned out quite well, as almost all of the money lent to banks has been returned to the government-- some in less than a year and with a tidy profit to boot for taxpayers. Not so evil-sounding when you look at the facts, is it?
Quantitative easing, on the other hand, is the practice of non-traditional monetary easing by the Fed, and generally includes moves outside of fed funds interest-rate changes.
Quantitative easing is essentially, but not only, the increasing of the money supply through purchases by the Fed. It can be accomplished by purchasing securities as mundane as Tim Geithner's Treasuries or it can be more exotic, like purchasing mortgage-backed securities. The US still does not permit the Fed to buy corporate bonds -- like many other countries -- which would have been a good addition to FinReg.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/ben_at_the_controls_cmuVpBOIV8Sqo3NfIRtv7O#ixzz0w7neW3AJ
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