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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2011
... 100.68 points (4.29 per cent) to stand at 2,446.06. Mr Padley said investors anticipated US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke would announce a stimulus package at a global meeting of central bankers on Friday (US time), with large movements in companies ...

Good news from bad stats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2011
... witnessed so far. Then he'll be in more trouble. This Friday, we might hear the Chairman of the US Federal Reserve Ben Shalom Bernanke do a rendition of Frankie Valli's "Grease". "I solve my problems and I see the light We gotta plug and think, we gotta ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2011
... Tuesday. Since 1700 (AEST) on Tuesday, the local unit traded between 104.58 US cents and 105.34 cents. Fed chairman Ben Bernanke will give a speech to a central bank symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on Friday (US time). At last year's Jackson Hole ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
... current year. He said many investors were trading in anticipation of positive news from the US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, who is scheduled to speak at an annual conference of the world's central bankers on Saturday AEST. "We're getting in ...

Fed policy options galore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
... to pull another rabbit out of his magic cap. Then again, maybe not. That is if you believe recent headlines such as, "Bernanke may find that his options are limited" and "The Fed's Limited Options". You can read their full blahs here http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44051734/ns/business-stocks_and_economy/t/bernanke-may-find-his-options-are-limited/ ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
... other manufactured goods. Mr Ive said the market this week would focus on a speech by US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke to a central bank symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on Friday night, Australian time. In Australia on Tuesday, Reserve Bank ...

Stocks rally hard as Australia deemed a bargain buy

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011
... next 10 years," he said. US equities rose overnight with Wall Street posting 4% gains after Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said the Fed would keep US interest rates at "exceptionally low levels" for at least the next two years. In a statement ...

Fed move checks markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011
... Bloomberg reported that, "A group of 23 economists, money managers and former government officials issued an open letter to Bernanke on Nov. 15 saying the central bank's planned bond purchases "risk currency debasement and inflation" and won't boost ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011
... Ordinaries index dropped 21.9 points, or 0.48 per cent, to 4,561.3. NEW YORK - Remarks by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke that dimmed hopes for a third round of bond-buying pushed stocks lower. In a second day of testimony, Bernanke told congress ...

Credit hits the fan as Moody's puts US on downgrade watch

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
... Moody's Investors Service has placed the US on a review for possible downgrade prompting US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke to issue dire warnings on the global impact a US debt default would have. US lawmakers have been debating whether to increase ...