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Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013
... said confirmation US President Barack Obama would nominate Janet Yellen to replace outgoing Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke may also help stem the losses on Wednesday. The losses were spread across the market in early trade. Global miner BHP Billiton ...

Central banks rule

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2013
... it, 'ey? It's Ben all around. This little Ben quotes soul singer and composer singer Ben to explain Fed chairman Ben Bernanke's influence on financial markets. The US government is officially closed for business. Not good for the butcher, the baker and ...

Most EM currencies bounce back

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2013
... stimulus confirms how far these markets have matured since the GFC. In May through June this year US Fed chairman Ben Bernanke issued repeated none-to-veiled signals that the Fed was about to start tapering down its government bond buying program from ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2013
... Fed president James Bullard's comments weighed on investor sentiment, as it came only days after US Fed chairman Ben Bernanke had suggested quantitative easing would continue, Australian Stock Report senior equities analyst Benny Sada said. "That really ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2013
... Committee is scheduled to conclude Wednesday (US time) with a statement and news conference with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. Most market watchers expect the Fed to scale back the Fed's $US85 billion-per-month bond-buying program. The market ...

EM correction, it's different this time

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2013
... fundamentally differently to how they were in 1997 and should absorb this latest correction. US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke repeatedly signaling in recent months that the Fed will begin reducing the $85 billion per month US bond buying program ...

Bentham appoints Goldman Sachs client portfolio manager

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013
... withdrawal of quantitative easing and a return to normal monetary policy. "The challenge for Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is to exit the historically low interest rate environment, maintain the increase in interest rates achieved in the June ...

September morn' or September mourn?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2013
... Republican and head of the Joint Economics Committee Kevin Brady posed this question upon US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke - to the future of financial markets everywhere. It's been nearly four months that you, I and Irene have been scouring ...

QE tapering fears spark $1 billion flight from bonds

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2013
... easing program with most analysts expected a slowdown in the program in September. While Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's comments initiated a spike in bond yields, the move out of fixed income assets has accelerated the trend. Morningstar data ...

Balanced funds ill-suited for fixed income blow-up

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2013
... absolute return bond strategies," Fletcher said. While markets have reacted negatively to Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's recent comments that tapering may end early 2014, but Fletcher said that the Federal Reserve interest rate hikes are tied ...