"yeah,we've increase market liquidity.We have helped stabilize the situation somewhat, financial markets remain under considerable stress.Many lenders have been reluctant to provide credit to counterparties, especially leveraged investors, and have increased the amount of collateral they require to back short-term security financing agreements. To meet those demands, investors have reduced their leverage and liquidated holdings of securities, putting further downward pressure on security prices.The capacity and willingness of some large institutions to extend new credit remains limited.
Overall, the near-term economic outlook has weakened and there is grave uncertainty in forecasting and the risks remain to the downside. "
So what he didn't say is that the U.S. was in a recession. Bernanke said, "A recession is possible. But a recession is a technical term defined by the National Bureau of Economic Research depending on data which will be available quite a while from now, so I'm not yet ready to say whether or not the U.S. economy will face such a situation." Another hidden agenda.

Tracking the Dow on Wednesday,02/04/08
