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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAR 2010
... cents, or 1.67 per cent, at $35.26. Mr Smith said the decline went against the expected trend after the US House of Representatives passed President Obama's healthcare legislation that will expand healthcare coverage to 32 million Americans who don't ...

US reform tightens net on big firms

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2009
The US House of Representatives has given government regulators more power to clamp down on "too big to fail" firms that threaten economic instability. Voters have given the green light to a bill to rein in firms seen as "too big to fail", according ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2008
Australian stocks were lower at noon, as nervous local investors await the outcome of tonight's US House of Representatives vote on a new version of the $US700 billion ($A888 billion) bailout of the financial markets. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 ...

Head or tails?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2008
... the real prospect of economic hardship for millions of Americans.' How true! The 228 members of the US House of Representatives who voted 'NAY' to the plan's passage are worried about the amount of money that US taxpayers will spend to bail out the (former) ...

Soup for Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2008
... than US$1,000,000,000,000 (US$1 trillion) cheaper as investors dumped stocks following news of the US House of Representatives' rejection of the US$700 billion financial sector bail-out package. The S&P 500 index dropped 8.8 per cent - the biggest one-day ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2008
... Exchange could be in for a shellacking today, led down by the financial and resources sectors, after the US House of Representatives rejected a $US700 billion rescue package this morning. At 0809 AEST, the December Share Price Index futures contract ...

Economic round-up: Cheeseburger bill meets fat tax

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2007
... it's a more indigestible 'Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption Act'- a bill voted in by the US House of Representatives in March 2005. The nickname comes from its protection of fast-food purveyors against obese consumers' hefty lawsuits. While ...

Morning market wrap: Mixed signals for US market

... assessment of conditions by Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan to the Committee on Financial Services, US House of Representatives. "As I indicated when I met with you earlier this year, I continue to believe the economy is positioned to expand ...
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