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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2013
... Committee is scheduled to conclude Wednesday (US time) with a statement and news conference with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. Most market watchers expect the Fed to scale back the Fed's $US85 billion-per-month bond-buying program. The market ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2013
... Professor Janet Yellen, the Fed's current vice chairman, is now the leading candidate to succeed outgoing chairman Dr Ben Bernanke. CMC chief market strategist Ric Spooner said many believed Ms Yellen would likely be more cautious about winding back ...

EM correction, it's different this time

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2013
... fundamentally differently to how they were in 1997 and should absorb this latest correction. US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke repeatedly signaling in recent months that the Fed will begin reducing the $85 billion per month US bond buying program ...

Bentham appoints Goldman Sachs client portfolio manager

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013
... withdrawal of quantitative easing and a return to normal monetary policy. "The challenge for Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is to exit the historically low interest rate environment, maintain the increase in interest rates achieved in the June ...

September morn' or September mourn?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2013
... Republican and head of the Joint Economics Committee Kevin Brady posed this question upon US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke - to the future of financial markets everywhere. It's been nearly four months that you, I and Irene have been scouring ...

Growth and QE - will this time be different?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2013
... Uncle Sam had to navigate in the second quarter.A Bet you've forgotten now, don't you? Have no fear, there's always Ben Bernanke (little balding Ben, that is) to remind you.A There was the China slowdown, eurozone crisis - courtesy of Cyprexit, Italian ...

QE tapering fears spark $1 billion flight from bonds

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2013
... easing program with most analysts expected a slowdown in the program in September. While Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's comments initiated a spike in bond yields, the move out of fixed income assets has accelerated the trend. Morningstar data ...

Balanced funds ill-suited for fixed income blow-up

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2013
... absolute return bond strategies," Fletcher said. While markets have reacted negatively to Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's recent comments that tapering may end early 2014, but Fletcher said that the Federal Reserve interest rate hikes are tied ...

Pengana eyes reporting season short-selling opportunity

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2013
... miners, and materials were the laggards as investors started to adjust portfolios after US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke confirmed the tapering of stimulus and Chinese growth showed signs of weakness. Demand for stocks with $US earnings benefitted ...

The game markets play

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2013
... been lifted before... I'm gonna be at your side, forevermore." - Jackie Wilson Forget Jackie Wilson, Bipbop Benny's (Ben Bernanke) rendition of this tune last week sounded much, much better to financial markets ears. Sure, sure - and as I've always insisted ...