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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 OCT 2013
... to 5,153 and the broader All Ordinaries index gaining 3.5 points to 5,151.6. NEW YORK - US stocks were mixed as the White House moved to convene meetings with leading members of Congress to seek an end to economic policy paralysis in Washington. The ...

Obama expected to pick Yellen as US Fed chair

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013
... President Barack Obama will nominate Federal Reserve vice-chair Janet Yellen to be the next head of the US central bank, White House officials have said. If confirmed by the Democrat controlled US Senate, Yellen would become the first woman to hold the ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013
... plunge after a bogus Twitter message from a hacked Associated Press account said there were two explosions at the White House and President Barack Obama had been injured. LONDON - European stock markets rose strongly as traders focused on corporate earnings ...

Market Wrap - AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2012
... index closed 21.65 points lower, down 0.72 per cent, at 2,992.16. In Washington, House Speaker John Boehner said the White House was so resistant to cutting government spending that it risked pushing the country off the "fiscal cliff." The "cliff" is ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012
... is reached to reduce the US budget deficit. The Wall Street Journal reported that budget negotiations between the White House and Republican House Speaker John Boehner had "progressed steadily" in recent days. That reinvigorated talks that appeared to ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012
... of automatic tax increases and federal spending cuts scheduled to start January 1. President Barack Obama said the White House and Republicans could reach an agreement "in about a week" if the Republicans drop their opposition to raising taxes on making ...

Coming in 2014: Aussie recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2012
... 2011) to its lowest point last June, the DJ Euro Stoxx index lost only 5.5%. 3 A yet-unannounced candidate takes the White House. Who? 5 Basel III and regulation force 50 bank nationalisations in Europe. I couldn't find the list of nationalised banks ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2012
... in quiet conditions at the open. Ms Chan said investors were on the sidelines amid ongoing negotiations between the White House and US Congress over a series of tax measures and government spending cuts which were due to automatically come into effect ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2012
... compromise to avoid sending the economy over the fiscal cliff. Shares opened lower but took a jump upwards as the White House opened talks with congressional leaders on closing the deficit and averting the harsh tax hikes and spending cuts slated for ...

Fool me not again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2012
... trading after the day we all found out that the Big O gets to keep his chair at the West Wing of the Oval Office in the White House? Thursday - the Wall stumbles because of 'fiscal cliff' worries despite better-than-expected jobless claims - positive ...