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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2010
... expected to open lower on Wednesday as Wall Street retreated late in its session on investor concerns about the economic recovery in the US. At 0700 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was 10 points lower at ...

A friend like Ben

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2010
... Big Ben declared that he's got our backs. "... the FOMC will do all that it can to ensure continuation of the economic recovery... the Committee is prepared to provide additional monetary accommodation through unconventional measures if it proves necessary ...

Glum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2010
... Not one bothered to print the Fed's conclusion that it "will employ its policy tools as necessary to promote economic recovery and price stability." No doubt Big Ben would again stress the Fed's readiness to take action if things get worse. But the media ...

Torturing the data

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2010
... current trend in the economy - what former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan called "a typical pause that occurs in an economic recovery". But thanks to his successor's "unusually uncertain outlook" comment and subsequent implementation of QE2, financial markets ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2010
... the private system. "The market has become very concerned. "The data supports the idea that clearly a global economic recovery is coming on - it is not the v-shaped recovery we were looking for - it will continue to be patchy and will vary enormously ...

The Fed did it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2010
... big trouble. United Kingdom. In its quarterly inflation report, the Bank of England said that the country's economic recovery would be slower than previously expected. The BOE now expects growth to peak at 3 per cent instead of 3.6 per cent. Absent yesterday's ...

Bending it like Bernanke

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 AUG 2010
... portfolio of mortgage-backed securities into US Treasury bonds to keep the "fun" going. "To help support the economic recovery in a context of price stability, the Committee will keep constant the Federal Reserve's holdings of securities at their current ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2010
... flat on Friday after recovering from early losses stemming from government data showing a slowdown in the US economic recovery. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell one per cent immediately after the Commerce Department reported that US economic growth ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2010
... mixed on Wednesday, consolidating recent gains after weak US data raised fresh doubts over the strength of the economic recovery. In London, the FTSE 100 index of leading shares closed down 45.99 points, or 0.86 per cent, at 5,319.68 points. FRANKFURT ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2010
... still struggling in the fallout from the global financial crisis would badly hit confidence in them and the economic recovery, they said. London's FTSE 100 index of leading shares was virtually unchanged at 5,312.62 points, falling 1.19 points. FRANKFURT ...