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Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2007
... per cent dimension, that represents major bargains the next day." US stocks rebounded overnight after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the economy was set to grow moderately, calming investors' anxiety. But even with the bounce, weak US economic ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2007
... The all ordinaries tumbled 161.1 points to 5,816.5. NEW YORK - US stocks bounced back on Wednesday as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke reassured investors that the economy was set to grow moderately, a day after the Dow industrials' worst slide ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2007
... overnight sending the Dow Jones industrial average to a record close, as investors drew support from Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's comments that inflation is poised to ease while the economy grows moderately. The Dow Jones industrial average ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2007
... NEW YORK - US stocks rose sharply and the Dow industrials hit a record high, boosted by comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke that the economy will grow moderately as inflation eases. At 0624 AEDT the Dow Jones industrial average was up ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2006
... at the moment." The local market's moves came despite US stocks closing little changed overnight after Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's inflation warnings countered a rise in energy shares. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 14.74 points to ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2006
... Australia Israel Chamber of Commerce function. NEW YORK - US stocks were little changed on Tuesday after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's inflation warnings countered a rise in energy shares. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 13.46 points ...

Emerging markets enter hibernation

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 31 JUL 2006
... the strong net outflows experienced by global bond funds, apparently on the back of comments made by US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke indicating that US monetary policy may be pausing.

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUL 2006
... day trading 11 points down to 4886 on a volume of 15,425. NEW YORK - US stocks jumped on Wednesday as Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's comments on inflation hinted the central bank may be close to ending two years of interest rate hikes. Bernanke ...

Weekly economic round-up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JUN 2006
... core inflation rate to 3.6 per cent -- the highest since April 1995. This is important because the US Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke, recently stressed that the Fed is particularly monitoring the three- and six-month trends in the core CPI as ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2006
... 8,000 to 295,000 from a week earlier. Expectations were for an increase to 320,000. Comments from US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke also helped ease market anxiety over the country's growth outlook. In his speech before the Economic Club of Chicago ...