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MARKET WATCH: Front-month gas futures contract rallies
… spotlight with [Federal Reserve Chairman] Ben Bernanke's testimony to Congress and minutes from the last Federal Open Market Committee [the Fed’s policy arm] meeting both on deck” for May 22. Energy prices The June contract for benchmark …
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MARKET WATCH: Crude prices weaker ahead of oil data, Bernanke testimony
… the market’s fears over an early end to the Fed’s quantitative easing program that had been sparked by [ Federal Open Market Committee ] minutes released last week and at the beginning of the year. While Bernanke confirmed the Fed’s concern …
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MARKET WATCH: Crude down 3% last week in NY futures market
… trading Mar. 4, gas was in the red while crude prices were marginally higher. “An apparently more hawkish Federal Open Market Committee [the policy-making arm of the Federal Reserve Bank] and the seemingly more conciliatory tone taken by all …
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MARKET WATCH: Oil prices decline as joy over budget agreement wanes
… New York Securities Inc., the Standard Bank Group. “However, this all changed after the release of the Federal Open Market Committee ’s minutes [of its Dec. 11-12 meeting], which seriously dented the market’s confidence in continued …
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MARKET WATCH: Energy prices waffle in unconfident markets
… this resistance will remain while the market continues to digest the implications of the Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee minutes last week.” Those minutes “seriously dented” market confidence in continued monetary easing by the …
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MARKET WATCH: Possible early end of Fed stimulus shakes markets
… Standard Bank Group, reported broad-based liquidation of commodity holdings in late trading Feb. 20 “as the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) minutes revealed that a growing number of Federal Reserve members were contemplating an earlier end …
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Unusual economic uncertainties cloud oil and gas market outlook
… US economic growth at risk because of the fiscal cliff was far from robust. At its Dec. 12 meeting, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), part of the Federal Reserve System, reported that, since an earlier gathering in October, economic …
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MARKET WATCH: Oil, gas prices increase among mixed economic data
… Ground at Standard New York Securities Inc., the Standard Bank Group. “However, later in the day after the Federal Open Market Committee announcement, the market regained its composure, and bolstered by the prospect of continued quantitative …
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MARKET WATCH: Energy prices fall as dollar strengthens
… generally, is that participants are adopting a wait-and-see approach ahead of today’s release of the Federal Open Market Committee ’s minutes. We doubt that this will offer anything substantive to bolster market expectations of quantitative …
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MARKET WATCH: Natural gas prices resume advance; oil prices rise
… demand. A similar reaction from US consumer confidence is likely, although not to the same extent.” The Federal Open Market Committee , policymaking arm of the Fed, meets next week, but Ground and others do not expect “an announcement of outright …
