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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2008
... an uncertain lead from the US, where stocks fell slightly in tense trading due to concerns that dealmaking in the US congress will change the shape of the government's financial sector bailout. At 0740 AEST, the Sydney Futures Exchange's December Share ...

TARP or TRAP?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2008
... Unit yesterday outlined two extreme scenarios - a positive and a negative -- that could arise as a consequence of the US Congress' passing the US Treasury/Federal Reserve's 'mother of all bail-outs' package. Last night, the Paulson/Bernanke tandem told ...

The good and the bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2008
The US Congress is still deliberating the administration's latest rescue package - the details and the cost. The Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) acknowledges that despite the delay, the US Congress will ultimately pass the government's bailout ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2008
... The Australian stock market is expected to open lower today after US stocks fell again as investors worried that the US congress was beginning to doubt the need for a government bailout of financial institutions as a way to revive credit markets. At ...

Greater fool with no shorts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2008
... view. For now investors will have to remain in hope for the final details of the US administration's proposal. The US Congress may be worried about the long -term repercussions of the huge amount of taxpayers' money that is required to salvage the financial ...

Fed Gloom

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2008
Market Movers Overnight (16 July) Fed Gloom US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's testimony before the US Congress last night catapulted the Australian dollar to a 25-year high in overnight trading. The Australian dollar broke above the US$0.9800 ...

US dominoes keep falling

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2008
... for the US economy, the real economy is holding up remarkably well, perhaps too well. Ben Bernanke yesterday told US Congress that economic conditions are getting worse as the sub-prime contagion spreads from the financial sector into other parts of ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2007
... funds may signal worse problems ahead for credit markets. Investors were rattled, also, by news that Democrats in the US Congress introduced legislation to end a tax advantage for investment fund managers as well as a jump in volatility ahead of the ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 NOV 2006
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open stronger, following a firm rally in global markets and yesterday's push to record highs. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0738 AEDT, the December share price index contract was up 59 points at 5,490. Today ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUN 2006
... May while imports increased by 21.7 per cent. This will provide further support for protectionist measures in the US Congress and renew calls for a more significant revaluation of the Chinese currency.