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Bernanke may hint at stimulus without boxing Fed in

From reuters.com

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will likely acknowledge the U.S. central bank is actively considering another round of monetary easing in his keynote Jackson Hole speech on Friday. But the Fed chief could disappoint fidgety financial markets if he stops short of signaling another bond-buying program is imminent, which many analysts say is a strong possibility. "We have had low expectations for significant news," said Vincent Reinhart, an economist at Morgan Stanley and a former top staffer at the Fed. For one thing, minutes of the Fed's last meeting were already very strongly worded in the direction of further ... (full story)

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