Bernanke stays course on Fed buying

To view this email as a webpage, click here     Wednesday July 17 2013     Breaking news   Bernanke stays course on Fed buying   Ben Bernanke said that the jobs situation in the US is still far from satisfactory as he argued that a slowdown in asset purchases would not mean a weakening of Fed support for the economy. In prepared testimony to Congress on Wednesday, the Fed chairman repeated an intention to slow asset purchases from $85bn-a-month later this year if the economy stays strong, but in almost every other line he tried to show that the Fed is not backing away from easy monetary policy.           Please send us your feedback about this email   follow us on:                     Tools: Your account | Portfolio | Email Briefings | Price alerts | Keyword alerts | RSS feeds | Subscribe to FT.com   Email: Change Briefings | Unsubscribe | Change Email Address | Forward this email to a friend | Privacy Policy | About Us | Help   © THE FINANCIAL TIMES LTD 2013 You have received this email because you have signed up from the NBE preference page. This email was sent by a company owned by Pearson plc, registered office at 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL. Registered in England and Wales with company number 53723.