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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
... points, or 0.67 per cent, to 16,331.05 points. Investors put aside Wednesday's comments from Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen on the timing of interest-rate hikes and focused on jobless claims data and manufacturing figures that both beat market estimates. ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
... on Thursday more than one per cent on the prospect of higher interest rates in the US after Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen said a rate hike may begin "around six months" after the Fed's stimulus program ends. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index dropped ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
... after the United States Federal Reserve flagged an interest rate rise in 2015. A remark from Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen indicated the rough timeframe for an interest rate hike, which was sooner than investors had expected, causing a fall on Wall ...

Quicker and faster hikes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
... would fall to between 5.6% and 5.9% by end-2015, from 5.8% and 6.1% predicted in December. This, despite Fed Chair Janet Yellen herself telling you, I and Irene not to read too much into the "dot points" (the projections shown on a slide) because "These ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
... investors responded to encouraging results from several retailers and analysed comments from Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen. At 0820 AEDT on Friday, the March share price index futures contract was up 24 points at 5,420. Yellen, told the US' Senate ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2014
... lower following a flat performance on Wall Street with investors mostly tentative ahead of Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's testimony in Congress. At 0805 AEDT on Thursday, the March share price index futures contract was down 15 points at 5,422. ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
... Woolworths Limited was up eight cents to $34.84. Meanwhile, US stocks opened higher after new Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen told Congress she has no plans to change monetary policy set under predecessor Ben Bernanke.

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
... or 0.59 per cent, to 5,267.3. NEW YORK - US stocks jumped more than one percent after new US Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen confirmed she would continue existing Fed monetary policy. At the closing bell, the Dow Jones Industrial Average leaped 188.29 ...

Obama expected to pick Yellen as US Fed chair

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013
US 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 ...

China's turn to provide buy opportunities

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2013
... are out in force once again. Yup, this week it's China's turn to provide the buy-op. And why not? Fed vice chair Janet Yellen, in her speech before the National Association for Business Economics Policy Conference in Washington last night, reminded all ...