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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2011
... Lien said from New York. "People are selling US dollars and buying high-yielding currencies in the hope that the Federal Reserve will do more on Friday. At 0700 (AEST) on Wednesday, the Australian dollar was trading at 105.27 US cents, up from 104.74 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011
... banks and the Greek bailout also resurfaced, further hurting sentiment. A key US manufacturing index taken by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia showed manufacturing activity took a sharp hit in August, falling to -30.7 from 3.2 in July. In addition ...

Market Wrap- Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011
... session. "We got some really bad data on top of the sell-off in Europe." A key US manufacturing index taken by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia showed manufacturing activity took a sharp hit in August, falling to -30.7 from 3.2 in July. In addition ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011
... with the Dow 150 points in negative territory 45 minutes before the close. It followed an announcement by the Federal Reserve that it expected to maintain interest rates at ultra-low levels for the next two years due to economic weakness. LONDON - European ...

USA no longer AAA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
... this piece with US officials' take on Standard & Poor's downgrade: "Joint Press Release Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation National Credit Union Administration Office of the Comptroller of the Currency ...

S.O.S

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011
... range of uncertainties about the strength of the recovery and prospects for inflation over the medium term, the Federal Reserve remains prepared to respond should economic developments indicate that an adjustment in the stance of monetary policy would ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2011
... while the broader All Ordinaries index fell 83.3 points, or 1.79 per cent, to 4,563.5. NEW YORK - Hope that the Federal Reserve might consider more economic stimulus wasn't enough to keep bad news about Ireland from sinking US stocks. Ireland's government ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... Fund as a precondition for further support. In a sign of continued weakness in the world's largest economy, the Federal Reserve slashed its US economic growth forecast for 2011 to a range of between 2.7 and 2.9 per cent, down from its April forecast ...

The sound of QE3

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
... meeting in August 2010, the Fed lighten the market's mood with the words, "the Committee will keep constant the Federal Reserve's holdings of securities at their current level by reinvesting principal payments from agency debt and agency mortgage-backed ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2011
... (0.42 per cent) to 1,279.56 and the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite shed 26.18 points (0.97 per cent) at 2,675.38. The Federal Reserve's latest survey on economic conditions in all of the central bank's districts showed overall activity "generally continued ...