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Fed move checks markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011
... then, it'll produce the same ill will that neutralises the policy's purpose. As Paul Krugman wrote in his blog for the New York Times back in November 2010, "...yelling and screaming as the Fed attempts QE, this will have the effect of undermining the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011
... or 1.22 per cent, at 4,034.8, while the broader All Ordinaries index put on 40 points, or 0.99 per cent, to 4,096.7. NEW YORK - US stocks rebounded strongly on Tuesday, with the Dow jumping nearly four per cent after plummeting Monday on the shock of ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
... Poor's downgraded US debt after market closed on Friday, reacted badly to the call. Stocks in London, Paris, Frankfurt and New York felt the effects, with Wall Street's Dow Jones Industrial Average closing at a new 10-month low after posting the index's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
The Australian stock market is expected to follow Wall Street into another day of steep declines, after New York indices all plunged by around six per cent overnight. At 0721 AEST on the ASX 24, the September share price index futures contract was 153 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
... 4.0 per cent, at 4,105.4, while the broader All Ordinaries index was 183.2 points, or 4.21 per cent, weaker at 4,169.7. NEW YORK - The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.54 per cent on Friday to close at 11,444.61 after a roller-coaster day on the ...

Buy the fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
Yeouch! You can hear this cry from New York to Rio and old London town as financial markets received a battering. Somebody must have forgotten to tell the markets it's only August and not October. Equity markets, commodity markets and bond yields (bond ...

School's in for hedge funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
The University of Pennsylvania and New York University have been ranked the top universities for breaking into the US hedge funds industry. Global hedge funds are estimated to now be running $2 trillion worldwide. In Australia they run approximately ...

ACSI chief exec Byrne wins PRI election

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011
... she said. Byrne was among four non-asset owners to be elected to the council after two separate elections took place in New York. Representatives of two asset owners, PFZW of the Netherlands and CalPERS of the US were also elected. Frank Pegan, chief ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2011
... or 1.65 per cent, at 4,497.8, while the broader All Ordinaries index was up 72.6 points, or 1.61 per cent, at 4,573.1. NEW YORK - US stocks fell on Monday as a last-minute deal on raising the government's debt ceiling and averting a potentially disastrous ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
... or 0.88 per cent, to 4,424.6, and the broader All Ordinaries index dropped 38.7 points, or 0.85 per cent, to 4,500.5. NEW YORK - US stocks had their worst week of 2011 amid fears that the debt-ceiling impasse in Washington would provoke a ruinous default ...