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The Fed Beige Book, released yesterday, confirmed most of what has been said about the economy for the last few weeks: That the U.S. economy is growing slowly. While there are signs of growth, they are small, and represent a rather moderate pace. Yesterday also brought the news that <a href="item/256990" target="_blank" title="Beige Book, durable goods, U.S. markets, spread bets, CFDs, spread betting, Fed">durable goods</a> orders are down, even though manufacturing activity has increased. Since the <a href="http://www.fx360.com/commentary/kathy/3807/usd-no-surprises-from-beige-book.aspx?aid=5704" target="_blank" title="Beige Book, durable goods, U.S. markets, spread bets, CFDs, spread betting, Fed">Beige Book</a> is used by the Fed to make monetary policy decisions, it is likely that there will not be a change in policy for some time. U.S. stocks, though, are higher ahead of the open, and there are some hopes that yesterday's modest losses can be overcome. 9 application/xml false Beige Book CFDs durable goods Fed spread bets spread betting U.S. markets Spread Betting on U.S. Stocks Spread bets on world markets http://www.gftuk.com/land/index.asp?aid=53 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8 GTB7.0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 mmarquit 63.248.48.57 false true false false true 133529 blog blogsite/GFTUK/web