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Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2012
... Australian market looks set to open higher following Wall Street's positive lead after US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke gave a gloomy assessment of the US economy. At 0800 AEST on Wednesday, the September share price index futures contract was ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2012
... early July," offering reassurance to investors worried about a recent run of disappointing indicators. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, testifying for a second day to Congress, reiterated that the economy was slowing and the central bank would act if warranted ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012
... and unpredictable ahead of the local earnings season, he said. US stocks closed higher after Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke gave a gloomy assessment of the economy to Congress and said the Fed would act if the situation gets worse. The Dow Jones ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012
... Australian market looks set to open higher following Wall Street's positive lead after US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke gave a gloomy assessment of the US economy. At 0800 AEST on Wednesday, the September share price index futures contract was ...

No random walk on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012
... are the stats - and the rationales as headlined: 06 June: Up 2.3% on whispers of Fed stimulus 07 June: Down 0.01% as Bernanke dashed stimulus hopes 08 June: Up 0.8% following Spain's a,-100 billion bailout announcement 11 June: Down 1.3% on concerns ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012
... reaction to Wall Street's disappointing trading session that saw early gains wiped out after US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke dampened hopes of further economic stimulus, said Benny Sada, senior equities analyst at Australian Stock Report. "That ...

Still a guessing game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2012
... deteriorate further and optimism takes hold. Perhaps not - if things get worse and panic ensues. But then, there's the Bernanke put. Chances are Wall Street would come out at the other side of 2012 with a plus sign - it's an election year after all and ...

Wow on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2012
If there's something strange in your neighbourhood, who ya gonna call? Ben Bernanke! It was a wow day on Wall Street overnight as our friend Ben reinforced this Ben's view that it would be a win-win for equity markets, no matter how the Fed see its ...

Currencies dominate CFDs

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012
... Ashley Jessen, head of sales trading at Capital CFDs. "Gold continued its relentless surge of volatility following Ben Bernanke offering grim hope of QE3 forcing gold and other commodities to take a sharp nosedive." In predictions for second quarter ...

Best friends forever

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012
... strengthens. Equities win. Recovery falters. Equities still win because Fed does another QE. And this time, our BFF Ben Bernanke has BFFs of his own backing him up on this. In her very long speech before the Money Marketeers of New York University in ...