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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
... added 30.8 points, or 0.59 per cent, to 5,267.3. NEW YORK - US stocks jumped more than one percent after new US Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen confirmed she would continue existing Fed monetary policy. At the closing bell, the Dow Jones Industrial ...

I swear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2014
... head. Janet Yellen has just been sworn in as the new chief of that mightiest central bank in the world - the US Federal Reserve - but given the backdrop to her swearing in, Janet must have been doin' all the yellin' and swearin'. Curses! Call it a baptism ...

Emerging market turmoil is a buying opportunity

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2014
... opportunities. "[It's] best to ignore market noise and concentrate on fundamentals and commentary from the IMF and the US Federal Reserve," he said. "Investors should have some exposure to consumers in emerging market countries in their portfolios, i.e. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2014
Australian stocks are lower after the US Federal Reserve's decision to further taper its stimulus program added to investor concerns about the decline in emerging markets. Investors have been pulling out of emerging markets in recent weeks as the US ...

Another 10 bil to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2014
... life alone..." -Queen With the rout in emerging markets continuing, all eyes, ears and noses will be on the US Federal Reserve's FOMC meeting - Chairman Ben Bernanke's last - tonight. Here we go again folks, the coin toss that is would they? won't they?...continue ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2014
... rise. LONDON - Europe's main stock markets gained, showing a rebound on firm US confidence data ahead of a US Federal Reserve decision on the future of monetary stimulus. In London, where official data showed that the British economy expanded at the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2014
... stocks have finished lower again as investors anxiously awaited a busy week of economic news that includes a US Federal Reserve policy meeting. At the closing bell, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had slumped 41.23 points, or (0.26 per cent, to 15,837.88 ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2014
... annual growth in 14 years. The major banks have started in weaker territory as investors again worry about the US Federal Reserve tapering its quantitative stimulus measures when it meets in late January, Australian Stock Report senior equity analyst ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2014
... 197,000 expected by analysts. Treasury yields fell, suggesting the market thought the jobs report meant the US Federal Reserve will avoid aggressively scaling back its stimulus measures. Locally, in economic news on Monday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2013
The Australian bond market is slightly firmer as uncertainty reigns over whether the US Federal Reserve will start winding back its economic stimulus program this year. The Federal Reserve Open Market Committee (FOMC) finishes its two-day early on Thursday ...