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Banks to raise capital reserves

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
... could damage the smaller institutions. Bank regulators and central bankers, including chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke, gathered in Basel Switzerland and proposed to increase the minimum common equity requirement for banks from 2 per cent ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2010
... are no companies in the top 20 that are not green." Markets took heart from comments by US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke of the central bank providing more support the American economy if necessary, Mr Heffernan said. "His comments have been ...

A friend like Ben

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2010
... (a friend) like Ben." -Michael Jackson Have no fear, Ben is here! This is the message US Federal Reserve Chairman Big Bernanke delivered to the financial world at the Fed's annual monetary symposium held in Jackson Hole, Wyoming on 27 August 2010. Wall ...

Market Wrap - Midmorning

MARKET WRAP - MIDDAY  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2010
... materials sectors. "There's probably a bit of nervousness ahead of this big GDP number they (the US) have got tonight and Bernanke's speech (US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke)," Mr Potter said. "I think a lot of people are taking money off the ...

Home trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2010
... if? Blame the anti-Keynesians for forcing the Fed and the government's hands for withdrawing the stimulus too soon. Ben Bernanke - a scholar of the Great Depression - knows this all too well. History really has a tendency to repeat. But similar to the ...

Bending it like Bernanke

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 AUG 2010
You asked for it! Mo' money's in the mail. Bernanke bends to the markets. Just when we thought we've seen it all, along comes the Fed kowtowing to the whims of the financial markets. Yes Virginia, the Fed announced that it would reinvest the proceeds ...

Which way USA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2010
... answered. And if I may add, the National Accounts can still be interpreted both ways - good and bad. Is this what Big Ben Bernanke referring to when he made that now famous "unusually uncertain" economic outlook? Initial estimates by the US Commerce ...

Usual uncertainty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUL 2010
... indicators like these in the coming months -- indicators that could be interpreted as either positive or negative. Ben Bernanke said that the economic outlook is "unusually uncertain", I say it's usually uncertain. Otherwise there'll be no jobs for financial ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUL 2010
... strong day was due to the strong corporate results from the US overnight and comments from Federal Reserve chairman, Ben Bernanke. Bernanke told a House of Representatives committee on Thursday that the Fed was ready to act if the economy did not continue ...

Unusually certain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUL 2010
... This is if you believed yesterday's headlines that the cause of Wall Street's fall the previous day was because of Ben Bernanke's statement that, "the economic outlook remains unusually uncertain." US and European equity markets rebounded overnight. ...