U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s shocking Federal Open Market Committee announcement Tuesday — that its zero-interest-rate target would be extended for two more years, through the middle of 2013 — drove Dow stocks up more than 400 points. But this new policy had no stock market carry-over on Wednesday, when the Dow plunged more than 500 points.
But we have not heard the last from Bernanke — not by a long shot.
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