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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke left the door open to a fresh shot of monetary stimulus should the economic rebound he’s predicting fail to materialize.
The Fed would be “prepared to take additional action, obviously, if conditions warranted,” including the purchase of more Treasury securities, Bernanke said yesterday after U.S. central bankers met in Washington. The economy will probably overcome constraints from elevated energy prices and Japan- related disruptions to manufacturing, he said. Still, declining home prices, high unemployment and weaknesses in the financial system may restrain the recovery in the longer term, he said.

(Reuters)NEW YORK, June 23 - The Standard & Poor's 500 index will finish the year with a gain of just over 11 percent, gains equity strategists expect to be made mostly after the Federal Reserve's latest stimulus plan comes to an end this month, a Reuters poll found.
Median forecasts from 46 respondents surveyed in the past week put the U.S. benchmark S&P 500 at 1,400 by year-end, one of a handful of global indexes polled quarterly by Reuters that analysts did not revise down from March.

(Bloomberg)U.S. stocks aren’t likely to see price declines similar to those during the financial crisis of 2008, said Larry Kantor, head of research for Barclays Capital.
Markets are vulnerable when households and corporations are overconfident, valuations are stretched, and cyclical sectors are booming, and “none of those conditions hold now,” said Kantor during a presentation of the firm’s Global Outlook report released today. Barclays advises investors to maintain a “neutral risk.”

(MarketWatch)June 24, 2011, 12:01 a.m. EDT
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