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Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2007
... sending the Dow Jones industrial average to a record close, as investors drew support from Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's comments that inflation is poised to ease while the economy grows moderately. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 87.01 ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2007
... stocks rose sharply and the Dow industrials hit a record high, boosted by comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke that the economy will grow moderately as inflation eases. At 0624 AEDT the Dow Jones industrial average was up 86.28 points ...

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 ...