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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
... lower at 4,493, with 15,422 contracts traded. US stocks closed lower on Wednesday after US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke offered a bleak outlook on the struggling economic recovery and slashed half a point off its estimate of gross domestic product ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2011
... profit-takers descended on the share market, pushing the bourse to a 12-week low after US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke cast doubt on the strength of American economic growth. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 29.5 points lower, by 0.64 per ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2011
... per cent, to 4,641.1. NEW YORK - US stock markets gave up all their gains on Tuesday after Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke confirmed a gloomy picture of economic growth just 15 minutes before the closing bell. A buoyant day turned into the fifth ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
... stocks ended mixed on Thursday as dealers took profits from early gains spurred by a Wall Street rally after Fed chief Ben Bernanke said the bank had no timetable for raising interest rates. The news from the Federal Reserve, however, sent the dollar ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2011
... game today." Investors will look for indications on the future of US monetary policy when Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke makes a press conference overnight. At 1204 AEST, metal recycler Sims Metal Management had surged 94 cents to $17.62 after ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2011
... economic recovery can sustain itself with less central bank stimulus. Markets also were on tenterhooks for Fed chairman Ben Bernanke's first post-FOMC press conference, the first for any Fed chairman. The bond market gained. The yield on the 10-year ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2011
... Markets were partly responding to Wall Street, where sentiment was dented by comments from Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke. The oil price rises hurt Asia's airlines, with Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways falling 2.5 per cent. All Nippon Airways ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2011
... rein in inflation with an interest rate rise on Tuesday continued to worry Hong Kong, as US Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke made rare criticism of the Beijing central bank's anti-inflationary strategy. In other markets, Singapore tumbled 1.50 per ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
... per cent, to 4,995.1 points. NEW YORK - US stocks closed mixed Wednesday, shrugging off Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's testimony to Congress and merger and acquisition activity in the stock exchange sector. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose ...

60 Minutes deception

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 DEC 2010
... Nasdaq hopped by 0.1 per cent. And with nothing to do and nowhere to go, financial markets were forced to replay Big Ben Bernanke's weekend interview with Scott Pelley on "60 Minutes". They didn't like it on its first run, they still didn't like it on ...