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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2012
... topping out after a very strong run. They said the tone started out positive, with solid early gains made after US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke indicated on Monday that the US central bank's very low interest rate regime will remain in place ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2012
... share market has followed offshore markets higher in opening trade, with investors encouraged by signs from US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke that the US would keep interest rates low. At 1013 AEDT on Tuesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2012
... rallied due to a sequence of positive economic data from the States and positive comments on the economy by the US Federal Reserve, he said. "The Fed's statements to confirm a recovering US economy and the decreasing need of quantitative easing gave ...

Waiting for jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012
... markets would react on the day, or the day after. But if you take a slightly longer view, you'll find that the US Federal Reserve in on the case. Just last night, in his testimony before the House of Representatives, Big Ben declared that, "Even as fiscal ...

Asia vital for Aus business: Harcourt

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2012
... increasingly India, remain extremely important for Australian business in 2012. "When Bernanke [Ben, chair of the US Federal Reserve] talked about the green shoots of recovery, he should have talked about bamboo shoots...even a slowing China is a fast ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2012
... 24, the March share price index futures contract was up 16 points at 4,267, with 13,633 contracts traded. The US Federal Reserve on Wednesday (US time) pledged to keep interest rates low until at least 2014 to nurture the country's stubbornly slow economic ...

Extending the extended extension

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2012
... hangover all youse blokes and shielas for as we, Australians all, drank and barbecued Australia Day yesterday, the US Federal Reserve gave financial markets another something to celebrate. It is extending the extended extension. Following its regular ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2012
... Exchange. Volume was above average at 4.5 billion shares. LONDON - World stock markets rose on Thursday after the US Federal Reserve pledged to keep interest rates low until late 2014 to nurture the country's stubbornly slow economic recovery. The Fed ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2011
... summit will not solve the eurozone debt crisis. Dealers said the lack of any new economy-boosting plans from the US Federal Reserve also dented sentiment, leaving investors with no lead to go on against a backdrop of dire warnings about the economic ...

She's becoming right, mate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2011
... boulder up that mountain once more. But he didn't do it alone. He got help. Help from six big CB's plus one. The US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan, the Bank of England, the Bank of Canada and the Swiss National Bank announced ...