Thursday, December 17, 2009

Greenspan Says Stock Rally Means Lower Stimulus Need

(Bloomberg) -- The biggest stock market advance in seven decades is reducing the need for additional government stimulus measures, according to former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index’s 64 percent jump since March made Americans richer by restoring $5.4 trillion to U.S. equities and helped spur a 1.3 percent increase in retail sales last month, data compiled by Bloomberg and the Commerce Department show.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aNnOG1VbdDZs&pos=7

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