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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
... broader All Ordinaries index added 19.7 points, or 0.43 per cent, to 4,583.2. NEW YORK - Comments from Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke set off a stock market rally early on Wednesday, but it wasn't long before another Fed official cut it short. In testimony ...

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 ...

Fear is in the air

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2011
... Day; UBS, Kabel Deutschland Slide German Stocks Drop to Seven-Week Low; Kabel Deutschland Falls Asian Stocks Decline as Bernanke, Dudley Fuel Concerns About Global Growth Thai Stocks Slump Seventh Day After Credit Suisse Cuts Rating on Politics Swiss ...

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 ...

Same time last year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2011
... spending to the states to reduce the deficit and that at least 30 states would be raising taxes and cutting spending. Bernanke was well aware of this. On this very day last year, Big Ben warned that America must control its public debt and bring its ...

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 ...