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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2011
... local session on Friday, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor Glenn Stevens will appear before the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics. Mr Speizer said the market will be looking to see if Mr Stevens will hose down market speculation ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2011
... undertake." On Friday, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor Glenn Stevens will appear before the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics. "Our expectations for now is that he won't say anything too dramatic," he said. Mr Burrowes ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2011
... governor, Ric Battellino in Sydney on Tuesday. On Friday, RBA governor Glenn Stevens will appear before the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics. Mr Speizer said he expected the Australian dollar to trade as high as 104.80 cents on ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2011
... points lower at 4,406 points, with 19,742 contracts traded. The passage of legislation through the US House of Representatives towards allowing a lift in the US debt ceiling early on Tuesday (AEST) was not enough to ease investor concern about the long-term ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2011
... agreement might be defeated in Congress. Questions have swirled over whether the package would pass the House of Representatives, where both conservative "Tea Party" Republicans and liberal Democrats expressed opposition to it. Meanwhile, a closely-watched ...

Agreement reached on debt ceiling

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
... disaster. US President Barack Obama announced that Democrat and Republican Party leaders in both the House of Representatives and the Senate have backed the deal in exchange for more than US$1 trillion of spending cuts over the next decade. The deal ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
... Australian shares hit a near 11-month low before negotiations in the US after Republican leaders in the US House of Representatives postponed a vote on legislation to avert the threatened August 2 debt default. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index lost 39.2 ...

Complicating the simple

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2011
... among themselves. This from Reuters: "It was unclear whether the deficit reduction bill presented by House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner, the top Republican in Congress, would overcome objections from conservative rebels in his own party and ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
... Wall Street on Tuesday, stocks fell as the White House said it would object to a Republican plan in the House of Representatives that calls for raising the US debt limit by $US1 trillion ($A925 billion). In local trade, materials and resource stocks ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
... indices were already down for the day when the White House said it would object to a Republican plan in the House of Representatives that calls for raising the debt limit by $US1 trillion ($A925 billion). The plan would require the debt issue to be voted ...