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NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS OCT 08, 2013
Gundlach: No Fed tapering until new Chairman starts in 2014

The Fed has indicated that a reduction of asset purchases will depend on economic data, and it's unlikely that those numbers will improve sufficiently by next month to warrant a reduction in the purchases by October, Gundlach said Thursday on a conference call with investors.

NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION OCT 08, 2013
Fed faces new era of thinking global as Yellen nomination nears

For five years, the Fed has focused on home-grown challenges, including financial turmoil and the recession and surge in unemployment that resulted. The biggest threat to U.S. expansion under its next chairman may lie outside its borders as China and fellow emerging markets show signs of weakening.

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS OCT 07, 2013
Treasuries calm as debt cap approaches

The world's biggest investors are finding U.S. government bonds becoming safer, not more risky, as the deadline to avoid the first American default approaches

NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION OCT 07, 2013
Schwab to face auction-rate suit

New York state has accused the brokerage giant of falsely describing auction-rate securities as liquid investments without disclosing the risks

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING OCT 04, 2013
Gundlach to oversee $450M in annuities push

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS OCT 03, 2013
Bonds to outpace stocks if shutdown persists

Strategists from Bank of America Corp. to Wells Fargo & Co. predict dollar-denominated corporate bonds will outperform stocks this month if political gridlock persists with the government partially shut down this week.

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS OCT 02, 2013
Gross: Market mispricing eventual Fed target rate increase

Pacific Investment Management Co.'s Bill Gross said investors should focus on purchasing debt that will benefit from the market's mispricing of when the Federal Reserve will eventually increase borrowing rates.

INVESTING FIXED INCOME OCT 02, 2013
Fuss beats bond competition - including Gross - by thinking like a stock picker

Loomis Sayles & Co.'s Dan Fuss left rival bond-fund managers including Bill Gross behind in his eighth decade, by using a style generally associated with bargain-hunting stockpickers.

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS OCT 01, 2013
TIPS gain most since 2011 with Treasuries as taper delayed

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS OCT 01, 2013
Shutdown likely with House Republican plan

House Republican leaders today are offering a revised plan to delay Obamacare that probably will lead to a government shutdown Oct. 1.