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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2011
... points, or 0.6 per cent, stronger at 4,274.8. NEW YORK - US stocks fell sharply Wednesday after the Federal Reserve's "Beige Book" portrayed a still-weak economy in September, as big losses from tech stars Apple and Amazon pulled the Nasdaq down more ...

DC theatrics

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2011
... still the stoopid economy that, I say, got Wall Street's goose last night. For the latest signs were no good. The Fed's Beige Book showed that seven of the Fed's 12 regional banks reported slower growth in June and early July with employment remaining ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2011
... in all of the central bank's districts showed overall activity "generally continued to expand" since April, but the Beige Book report cited trouble spots in the US east and midwest, where industrial growth and business optimism is flagging. Energy stocks ...

Thanks S&P

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2011
... resurgence in the US non-manufacturing sector. We learned of improving conditions in all of the Fed's 12 districts by the Beige Book. We've seen slow but still consistent gains in employment. Now, it appears that housing's beginning to stir too. US housing ...

All up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2011
... to these just a day after, did they? Strange. It may have something to do with the indications suggested by the Fed Beige Book that was released overnight. According to the report, "While many districts described the improvements as only moderate, most ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2011
... US deficit by $4 trillion -- a plan that doubled as his 2012 re-election challenge to rival Republicans. The Fed's Beige Book, issued around the same time, confirmed the economy was growing on a broad base around the country, though at an "only moderate" ...

Good jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2011
... been flashing expansions for over a year and so have their respective employment components. The US Federal Reserve Beige Book. Bears called it the Grey Book but not anymore. Last week the survey revealed all (yes A-L-L) 12 districts surveyed by the ...

Winter wonderland

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2010
... using this phrase, sowee folks). US consumer confidence, motor vehicle sales, consumer spending, disposable income, the Beige Book and both manufacturing and non-manufacturing surveys by the Institute of Supply Management have all been reported on the ...

Open fire roasted bears

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2010
... they'll have to have their eyes checked if they still ignored the avalanche of positive news out overnight. The Fed's Beige Book survey showed improved hiring and manufacturing in 10 of the 12 regions surveyed... and retailers expecting better holiday ...

Snakes and ladders

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
... positive development out of Europe should have made Wall Street rally with joy, it didn't. It wasn't overjoyed that the Beige Book declared that, "Reports from the twelve Federal Reserve Districts suggested continued growth in national economic activity ...