June 7 (Bloomberg) — Axel Merk, president and chief investment officer at Merk Investments LLC, talks about the reaction of financial markets to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke’s speech today and the outlook for Fed policy. Merk, speaking with Carol Massar and Adam Johnson on Bloomberg Television's "Street Smart," also discusses the outlook for the US dollar and euro, and the European debt crisis. (Source: Bloomberg)