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Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2012
... Wednesday (US time) pledged to keep interest rates low until at least 2014 to nurture the country's stubbornly slow economic recovery. City Index chief market analyst Peter Esho said the Australian market, which was closed on Thursday for the Australia ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2012
... Federal Reserve pledged to keep interest rates low until late 2014 to nurture the country's stubbornly slow economic recovery. The Fed cut rates to near zero in December 2008 during the financial crisis and has held them there ever since. The announcement ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011
... one-day rise in four weeks at noon amid hopes that a looming confidence vote in Greece will start the country's economic recovery. Global markets also rallied on news of an interest cut by the European Central Bank (ECB). At 1219 AEDT the benchmark S&P/ASX200 ...

Fidelity: Government intervention cause for concern

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
... sovereign debt crisis in Europe can be brought under control, the corporate world is in good shape to fuel an economic recovery," said Sutherland. The survey also found that regulatory risk and government intervention are most feared in the healthcare ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
... "strengthened somewhat" in the third quarter. The Fed "is prepared to employ its tools to promote a stronger economic recovery in a context of price stability," the FOMC said in a statement. Sentiment also was aided by better-than-expected private-sector ...

Ben calls on JMK

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2011
... continues to fall downward" and the Fed "is prepared to take further action as appropriate to promote a stronger economic recovery in a context of price stability." More, he told Congress to listen up. "...avoid fiscal actions that could impede the ongoing ...

Twisting the blues away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2011
... I don't know what is. Following its 2-day FOMC deliberations the Fed announced that, "To support a stronger economic recovery and to help ensure that inflation, over time, is at levels consistent with the dual mandate, the Committee decided today to ...

US housing market needs renovation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2011
... itself it's unlikely US consumers are going to gain too much confidence and without confidence the chance of economic recovery will remain a forlorn dream. House prices are still down 32% from their 2006 peak and this is where the viscous cycle kicks ...

Market Wrap- Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011
... fears over sovereign debt and bank liquidity. European bank stocks took a battering on fears over the global economic recovery and renewed concerns about Greece's bailout. The bailout ran into trouble when at least five countries demanded the Greek government ...

Cry of the banshee

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2011
... the fat lady to sing last Friday night on Wall Street - sing a song that ultimately puts doubts over the US economic recovery to rest. I was expecting the fat lady's rendition of the Silver Convention's "Get Up and Boogie" on the unveiling of America's ...