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Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2007
... quarterly revenue forecast. Investors also waited on comments from senior Federal Reserve officials, including Chairman Ben Bernanke, for clues on the outlook for US interest rates. The Dow Jones industrial average was down 7.21 points, or 0.06 per cent ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2006
... 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 12,136 ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2006
... 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 to 12,135.17. The ...

Emerging markets enter hibernation

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 31 JUL 2006
... 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  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUL 2006
... PARIS - The CAC-40 index closed at 4865.04 points, up 18.5. TOKYO - Shares in Japan surged at least 3 percent, after Ben Bernanke indicated the US Federal Reserve's may be putting a stop to its two year campaign of interst rate rises. Tokyo's Nikkei ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUL 2006
... 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 told the ...

No free lunch with high conviction funds: WestLB Mellon

... the last six weeks, there's been a fundamental re-appraisal of the risks in the market." He said that Fed chairman Ben Bernanke has introduced a fresh period of volatility in the market, following the golden Greenspan years. "It's easy to create alpha ...

Weekly economic round-up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JUN 2006
... 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 one of the major ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2006
... 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, Mr. ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2006
... of Commerce and Industry. NEW YORK - US stocks rallied as investors were relieved after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke steered clear of fueling inflation concerns, and strong earnings from investment bank Bear Stearns boosted financial shares. ...