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Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013
... the debt ceiling, so I'd say there will be some upside in stocks in the next week." Mr Radford said confirmation US President Barack Obama would nominate Janet Yellen to replace outgoing Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke may also help stem the losses ...

Obama expected to pick Yellen as US Fed chair

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013
US President Barack Obama will nominate Federal Reserve vice-chair Janet Yellen to be the next head of the US central bank, White House officials have said. If confirmed by the Democrat controlled US Senate, Yellen would become the first woman to hold ...

Counting up and counting down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
... allow the US to default on its debt on the last day of trading last week. Soothing words especially coming after US President Obama's reminder that, "There's a precedent for a government shutdown, there's no precedent for a default". But that was Friday ...

Impasse ends when Wall Street says stop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013

Vision Super awards $2.3bn active currency mandate

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2013

Central banks rule

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2013
... CA's (cure-all) for anything and everything that ails economies and financial markets. It's also the ECB. Recall ECB president Mario Draghi's "whatever it takes" and forward guidance, "The governing council expects the key ECB rates to remain at present ...

Senate to question ASIC over alleged RBA corruption

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2013
... that two subsidiary companies of the RBA, Note Printing Australia and Securency, allegedly liaised with former Iraq president Saddam Hussein's brother-in-law to illegally supply plastic bank notes to the Iraqi government while it was subject to United ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2013
... start of the 2014 fiscal year on Tuesday. But the measure, which goes to the House of Representatives, does not defund President Barack Obama's health-care law, a prime objective of House Republicans. LONDON - European stock markets were hesitant as ...

ACSI appoints Future Fund exec as new chief

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2013
... exercise of ownership rights. ACSI and its members have been in the vanguard of those developments," Hagart said. ACSI president Gerard Noonan said the arrival of a new CEO follows a highly successful period for under outgoing head Ann Byrne, who helped ...

Future Fund starts global search for MD

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2013