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Greg Morcroft, senior money editor at the International Business Times, discusses the psychological effects Bernanke has on the global financial markets.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke hinted that the central bank's current quantitative easing policy will not end anytime soon.

Foreign investment in Myanmar is rising at an astonishing rate, and investors are planning to stay for the long-term.

The 16-year-old half brother of Terry Smith has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a body matching the boy's description was found in a shallow grave near his home, police said Wednesday afternoon.

Investors will likely spend the day digesting Fed Chair Bernanke's comments on quantitative easing, and his taper stance.

For the 4th consecutive quarter since the London Whale debacle, JPMorgan Chase is likely to post increasingly strong profits.

Dividends and stock repurchasing programs continued well into the banking crisis in 2007, the N.Y. Fed found.

Asian markets rally on Bernanke's comments about the continuation of the Fed’s stimulus program while the FOMC remains divided on the question.

According to new research conducted by two Dutch scientists, Neanderthals had language and speech capabilities much like modern day humans.

However, only accredited investors –- those worth more than $1 million or who earn more than $200,000 annually -- can buy securities.

U.S. stocks were little changed on Wednesday, ahead of the release of the latest minutes from the Federal Reserve's June FOMC meeting.

Investors will eye the Fed’s minutes for any clues as to when the central bank will begin to scale back its $85 billion-per-month quantitative easing program.

Jewelers agree to the ban to help India reduce its record high current account deficit, following a period of gold buying frenzy resulting from gold prices plummeting globally.

There were 3.8 million job openings in the U.S. in May 2013, and almost half of them were in a service-related sector.

The bank reviewed 1,000 of its lawsuits against credit card defaulters and found 9 percent of them contained mistakes.

The world's third-largest producer is projected to deliver more than 12 million 60-kg bags of coffee this year, a sharp increase.

Investors will evaluate U.S. Fed Minutes and Chairman Bernanke's speech for tapering time-table clues.

IMF cut its global growth forecast citing anemic recovery in the US and EU, adding that if the Fed ended QE, it could hurt emerging markets.

China's trade data for June missed forecasts by a wide margin, adding to growing concerns of a slowdown in the Asian economic powerhouse.

Exports are down 3.1 percent from a year earlier and imports down 0.7 percent in a jolting report.

The rating agency said weak economic growth in Italy was a key factor.

Latvia will join the European Monetary Union after almost 10 years since its accession to the EU.

Officials say China's slowdown and the Fed's planned stimulus reduction will impact red metal production in the South American nation.

Progress is slow, but joining stock markets in East Africa could make the region more attractive to investors.

Investors and bankers are attempting to cope with June's dramatic drop, as new pricing spurs mixed activity in the gold market.

U.S. stocks edged higher at the open Tuesday after better-than-expected results from Alcoa Inc (NYSE:AA) help lift investor sentiment over the the start of second quarter earnings season. As of 10:02 Eastern, the Dow Jones industrial average .DJI gained 70.58 points, or 0.46 percent, to 15,295.27. The S&P 500 Index .SPX added 8.42 points, or 0.51 percent, to 1,648.88. The Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC rose 8.36 points, or 0.24 percent, to 3,493.19.

The shift represents the latest interesting move, as the two major rival exchanges battle for corporate customers.

Floods in Europe this summer are the most expensive natural calamity to hit the continent since the Elbe river floods in 2002.

Will the switch of control over the world's most important interest rate restore trust?