By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK (Reuters) - Standing conventional stock market wisdom on its head, investors may wish for weaker-than-expected U.S. employment numbers next Friday. A strong jobs report could prompt an early end to the Federal Reserve's policy of pumping money into the banking system to rescue the economy and set off the stock market's long-awaited pullback. The Fed's loose monetary policy since the end of 2008 has kept interest rates low and propelled stocks to record highs. Last week, stocks fell and bond yields surged after Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said the U.S. ...
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