U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke speaks during a news conference in Washington

Fed seen keeping options open on pace of bond buying

Reuters Federal Reserve policymakers will likely announce on Wednesday that they will keep buying bonds at a monthly pace of $85 billion, while keeping their options open to scale back the program later this year ...

  • A woman walks past a markets index board in Tokyo
    Asian markets tense before Fed; Nikkei outperforms Reuters

    Japanese stocks rose on Wednesday, thanks to a positive lead from Wall Street and a softer yen, outperforming the rest of Asia which anxiously waited for clarity on the U.S. Federal Reserve's next policy ...

    A woman walks past a markets index board in Tokyo

    Japanese stocks rose on Wednesday, thanks to a positive lead from Wall Street and a softer yen, outperforming the rest of Asia which anxiously waited for clarity on the U.S. Federal Reserve's next policy ...

  • Workers build a booth for Dish, a satellite TV provider, as they prepare for the International CES show at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas
    Dish abandons Sprint bid for now to focus on Clearwire Reuters

    Dish Network Corp said it would not make a new offer to buy No. 3 U.S. wireless provider Sprint Nextel in time for a Tuesday deadline and would instead focus on its tender offer for Clearwire Corp. The ...

    Workers build a booth for Dish, a satellite TV provider, as they prepare for the International CES show at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas

    Dish Network Corp said it would not make a new offer to buy No. 3 U.S. wireless provider Sprint Nextel in time for a Tuesday deadline and would instead focus on its tender offer for Clearwire Corp. The ...

  • File photo of employees standing next to a container ship at Ningbo port in Ningbo
    Asia business sentiment rises in second quarter, global growth risk still dominates Reuters

    Asia's top companies have become more optimistic about their business outlook with the retail and shipping industries rebounding sharply in the second quarter of 2013, the latest Thomson Reuters/INSEAD ...

    File photo of employees standing next to a container ship at Ningbo port in Ningbo

    Asia's top companies have become more optimistic about their business outlook with the retail and shipping industries rebounding sharply in the second quarter of 2013, the latest Thomson Reuters/INSEAD ...

 
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