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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
... sidelines ahead of commentary from US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke on Tuesday night. "The FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) tonight release their commentary in terms of monetary policy. There may be a few people waiting to see what type of ...

Watching the A$ watch the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 SEP 2010
... them get it wrong. There's one bet though that's surely be made good. And this is that this week's Federal Open Market Committee Meeting will result in no result. The Fed will decide to do nothing on interest rates - the fed funds rate shall stay at ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2010
... from offshore overnight, with investors concerned on bleak signs for the US economy. "The FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) announcements on Monday night were quite disturbing for the market," Mr McCarthy said. "Although it is being painted as an ...

Waiting to exhale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 AUG 2010
... whoopee! Wall Street rose last night salivating over expectations that tonight's meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) would conclude with a kinder surprise - a.k.a. quantitative easing. Yes Virginia, Wall Street's hoping and wishing and ...

Wall Street takes a dive

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2010
... manufacturing sector." Cover your ears and sing lalala so you don't hear Benny saying, "My colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) and I expect continued moderate growth, a gradual decline in the unemployment rate, and subdued inflation ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2010
... "applied pressure to major banking stocks," she said. The market opened under a cloud a day after the Federal Open Market Committee left the federal funds rate range at record lows between zero and 0.25 per cent in a bid to support recovery from recession ...

Waiting to see

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
... cent but closed 0.3 per cent lower. Wall Street's performance overnight - coming at a time when the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) announced its monetary policy decision and the Census Bureau reporting new home sales collapse to the their lowest ...

Contagion has already happened

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2010
... repeated that money will remain cheap/free for an "extended period." After its April meeting, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) said in a statement that, " Economic conditions, including low rates of resource utilisation, subdued inflation trends ...

Land of the free money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
... have been slowly - but surely - nibbling away at the ceiling. No one was surprised that the Fed's Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) kept interest rates where they were since December 2008 - at the 0 - 0.25 per cent range. Financial markets were more ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2010
... proposal for financial reform. Meanwhile, investors were cautious ahead of the Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market Committee meeting on Tuesday, analysts said. The FOMC is widely expected to hold the benchmark interest rate at near-zero, but the market ...