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Usual uncertainty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUL 2010
... coming months -- indicators that could be interpreted as either positive or negative. Ben Bernanke said that the economic outlook is "unusually uncertain", I say it's usually uncertain. Otherwise there'll be no jobs for financial market economists like ...

Unusually certain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUL 2010
There you go. I guess the economic outlook does not "remain unusually uncertain" now. This is if you believed yesterday's headlines that the cause of Wall Street's fall the previous day was because of Ben Bernanke's statement that, "the economic outlook ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUL 2010
... when US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke highlighted at a congressional hearing an "unusually uncertain" US economic outlook. Only 397 stocks fell on the New York Stock Exchange while 2,675 rose. LONDON - European stock markets brushed aside weak ...

Wall Street takes a dive

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2010
... "dove" after, according to media reports, Big Ben in the red corner landed a knock out punch with his words, "the economic outlook remains unusually uncertain." The printed text of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's Semi-annual Monetary Policy Report to the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2010
... Congress on monetary policy, but quickly headed south as he began to address the Senate Banking Committee. "The economic outlook remains unusually uncertain," the Fed chief told lawmakers. The central bank remained "prepared to take further policy actions ...

Pause

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2010
... I'll leave the Fed to explain the meaning of these revisions. In the FOMC minutes, the Fed stated that, "The economic outlook had softened somewhat and a number of members saw the risks to the outlook as having shifted to the downside. The changes to ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2010
... Zealand shares followed world stock markets down in a sell-off triggered by increasing alarm over the global economic outlook and European bank liquidity, though brokers said losses were not as big as elsewhere. The benchmark NZX-50 index closed down ...

Waiting to see

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
... "developments abroad" (read Europe), and that ever-present pledge that "The Committee will continue to monitor the economic outlook and financial developments and will employ its policy tools as necessary to promote economic recovery and price stability." ...

Allegro unveils second PE fund

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUN 2010
... timed to capitalise on the promising vein of mid-market private equity investment opportunities emerging as the economic outlook of both Australia and New Zealand improves. "Business owners are feeling more confident about bringing their companies to ...

On caution's side

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2010
... Then global double dip? As the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) warned in its latest Economic Outlook, Australia must not underestimate the threat of the uneven pace of global recovery and financial market volatility on its ...