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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2010
... 3.80 percent late Monday. Investors will get further insight into potential interest rate changes when Fed chairman Ben Bernanke testifies before Congress on Wednesday and Thursday. At settlement, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was 100.97 points lower ...

Penny for Benny's thoughts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2010
... waiting on the sidelines for the really big event - at least for this week. And this is US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's semi-annual testimony on the US economy and interest rates before the House Financial Services Committee and the Senate ...

When the time comes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2010
... America, where the Fed is again making waves. Testifying before the US House Financial Services Committee, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke stated that, "Although at present the US economy continues to require the support of highly accommodative monetary policies ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2010
... 4,533. NEW YORK - US stocks finished lower, but recovered from early losses in reaction to US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's plans to dismantle the central bank's economic supports. Dr Bernanke was due to appear before a House of Representatives ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2009
... or 0.55 per cent, to 4695.2. NEW YORK - Financial markets were reassured by comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, who said interest rates would remain low as the economy proceeds on slow recovery. Stocks fell back in mid-afternoon trading ...

Thanks for now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2009
... remain at zero forever. But interest rates will remain where they are for as long as the economy needs it. Chairman Ben Bernanke says so. Stimulation would remain for "an extended period." So has other Fed officials. Chicago Fed Pres Evans declared that ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2009
... after hovering around that level for the past month. Stocks pared some of their gains after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said policymakers would monitor the dollar while at the same time repeating that the Fed would hold interest rates low until ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2009
... in its outlook or monetary policy. The policymaking Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), headed by Fed chairman Ben Bernanke, said after a two-day meeting that "although economic activity is likely to remain weak for a time," its actions would support ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2009
... Meanwhile, a private sector group's forecast of economic activity on Monday further validated Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's pronouncement last week that the US recession was "likely over" from a technical standpoint. The Conference Board's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2009
... in major economies. US industrial production data, merger and acquisition activity and US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's comments a day earlier that the US was out of recession all fuelled the positive sentiment. London's benchmark FTSE 100 ...