{"id":394,"date":"2012-03-26T19:16:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T23:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.c2ig.com\/?p=394"},"modified":"2012-03-26T19:23:24","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T23:23:24","slug":"394","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.c2ig.com\/2012\/03\/394\/","title":{"rendered":"Interest Rates to Stay Low"},"content":{"rendered":"
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — U.S. stocks rallied Monday after Fed chairman Ben Bernanke’s comments on the job market gave investors reason to believe interest rates will stay low.<\/p>\n
In a speech to fellow economists, Bernanke said, “We cannot yet be sure that the recent pace of improvement in the labor market will be sustained.”<\/p>\n
He added that the Fed’s “accommodative monetary policies” should help reduce high unemployment over time.<\/p>\n
The comments reaffirm investors’ expectation that the central bank will keep interest rates low for a long time, and that the Fed will act if the economy deteriorates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — U.S. stocks rallied Monday after Fed chairman Ben Bernanke’s comments on the job market gave investors reason to believe interest rates will stay low. In a speech to fellow economists, Bernanke said, “We cannot yet be … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.c2ig.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.c2ig.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.c2ig.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.c2ig.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.c2ig.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.c2ig.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":396,"href":"http:\/\/www.c2ig.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions\/396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.c2ig.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.c2ig.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.c2ig.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}