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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2009
... expected to open higher after Wall Street rose on strong economic data and the nomination of Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke to a second term. At 0726 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was 16 points higher ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2009
... on a volume of 18,093 contracts. CommSec market analyst Juliette Saly said comments from US Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke had buoyed international markets. "We are seeing a great day on the market catching up to that impressive session that we saw ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2009
... market is expected to open higher after Wall Street soared to its highest point this year on Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke's comments that global recovery prospects appear good. At 0749 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price ...

When it's too late

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2009
... last week declaring that the US recession will end this year. He is now line ball with US Federal Reserve Chairman Benny Bernanke's prediction for the recession to be over "probably this year." We are five months away from the end of the year! The green ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
... with modest gains from choppy trade as the market weighed improved earnings reports and Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's cautious comments about economic recovery. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 67.79 points, or 0.77 per cent, to 8,915 ...

Best laid plan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
"Don't worry, I've got a plan," Ben Bernanke, the US Federal Reserve chair, reassured the US Congress. The longer I observe the financial markets, the more confused (amused?) I get. When equities and commodities went on their upward trek starting in ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
... modest gains on Tuesday in choppy trade as the market weighed improved earnings reports and Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's cautious comments about economic recovery. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 67.79 points, or 0.77 per cent, to 8,915.94. ...

Meredith Whitney

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2009
... US President Obama, displaying his inherent gift of the gab, was ignored. So were US Treasury Timmy Geithner and Ben Bernanke. And what happened when the OECD and the IMF raised their global economic outlook? Ignored. For four straight weeks Wall Street ...

Up yours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
... reasons and one for the market's rebound. From the upward revision in US first quarter real GDP to US Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke's testimony before the House Oversight Committee through to the IMF and the OECD raising their global growth outlook. Yes ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
... digested better-than-expected data on the US trade deficit and reassuring comments from Federal Reserve chairman, Ben Bernanke, about the health of the banking system. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 50.34 points, or 0.60 per cent, to settle ...