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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
... current year. He said many investors were trading in anticipation of positive news from the US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, who is scheduled to speak at an annual conference of the world's central bankers on Saturday AEST. "We're getting in ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
... other manufactured goods. Mr Ive said the market this week would focus on a speech by US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke to a central bank symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on Friday night, Australian time. In Australia on Tuesday, Reserve Bank ...

Credit hits the fan as Moody's puts US on downgrade watch

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
... Moody's Investors Service has placed the US on a review for possible downgrade prompting US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke to issue dire warnings on the global impact a US debt default would have. US lawmakers have been debating whether to increase ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
... lower at 4,493, with 15,422 contracts traded. US stocks closed lower on Wednesday after US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke offered a bleak outlook on the struggling economic recovery and slashed half a point off its estimate of gross domestic product ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2011
... profit-takers descended on the share market, pushing the bourse to a 12-week low after US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke cast doubt on the strength of American economic growth. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 29.5 points lower, by 0.64 per ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
... attractions. Later in the day traders turned their attention to crucial testimony from US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke who fended off criticism that he is ignoring the risk of rising prices as he faced a sceptical Republican-controlled panel ...

Queuing for QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2010
... would appear--all else being equal--to be a case for further action." With these words, US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke virtually ensured that Christmas is coming in November - no ifs, ands, buts or maybes. At least, that's what financial markets ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
... States markets. He said investors may be sitting on the sidelines ahead of commentary from US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke on Tuesday night. "The FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) tonight release their commentary in terms of monetary policy. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2010
... are no companies in the top 20 that are not green." Markets took heart from comments by US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke of the central bank providing more support the American economy if necessary, Mr Heffernan said. "His comments have been ...

Market Wrap - Midmorning

MARKET WRAP - MIDDAY  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2010
... nervousness ahead of this big GDP number they (the US) have got tonight and Bernanke's speech (US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke)," Mr Potter said. "I think a lot of people are taking money off the table." Mr Potter said the expectations for the ...