Chairman Bernanke has implied that short term interest rates should remain minimal looking out even to 2015, an extension from previous pronouncements.

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Each year, I analyze the primary drivers of asset class long-term returns including risk as measured by implied volatility, expected earnings growth based on GDP estimates and foreign business expansion, market implied inflation based on the spread between long-term Treasury Bonds and TIPS, and current cash payouts from interest and dividends on bond and stock indexes.

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Despite the current depressed outlook for natural gas producers, we believe long term value exists as implied by our price estimate.

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An Olympics-pages article Saturday about NFL players who would make good Olympians incorrectly attributed the comment to former Olympic kayaker Greg Barton and incorrectly implied that the commenter used the term "pipsqueak" to describe Mr. Sproles.

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In the short term, the sort of fiscal loosening implied by Mr Bush's plans might be helpful in boosting activity.

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On the bond markets, the Spanish government's long-term cost of borrowing fell slightly, to an implied interest rate of just under 6% for 10-year debt.

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To find the prices of these hypothetical options, you need an implied volatility, which I derived by finding implieds on near-term options which were about 5% in-the-money.

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Implied yields were already reflecting an about-face in the direction of short-term monetary policy before some profit-taking set in for Aussie bills.

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