Barron’s
by Michael Aneiro

The Fed’s newly extended expectation of pinning down short-term interest rates keeps encouraging investors to invest in longer-dated, riskier bonds. With little reason to expect short-term rates to rise over the next several years, Wells Fargo Advisors says even the most disciplined fixed-income investors have to be questioning the rationale to stay invested in short-term, high-quality fixed-income investments. Continue reading…

BusinessWeek
by Margaret Collins and Alexis Leondis

The Federal Reserve is trying to help Americans by stimulating the economy with low interest rates. It may actually push some of them toward riskier investments for yield. The Federal Open Market Committee said yesterday that economic conditions are likely to warrant “exceptionally low levels for the federal funds rate at least through late 2014.” Continue reading…

Reuters
by Mark Felsenthal

The Federal Reserve opened a two-day meeting on Tuesday that is expected to end with a signal that interest rates will be held near zero into 2014. Outside of words, however, the central bank appears unlikely to take any action to prop up the economy, although some officials have raised the prospect that more bond purchases will be needed. Continue reading…

Reuters
by Jonathan Spicer

The U.S. Federal Reserve may need to raise interest rates before the middle of 2013, despite the central bank’s repeated forecasts that it expected to keep rates ultra low until at least then, a top official said on Wednesday. Continue reading…