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US Fed holds key short-term rate steady

... Reserve held a main short-term interest rate at a 46-year low today in an attempt to keep the US economy humming. Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan and his Federal Open Market Committee colleagues - the group that sets interest rate policy in the United States ...

New Zealand central bank lifts interest rates 25 basis points

... them anyway, an economist says. Lifting the official cash rate (OCR) by 25 basis points to 5.5% yesterday, RBNZ governor Alan Bollard said he could not rule out further rate rises this year. Another rate rise in June was seen as a strong possibility ...

Australia well-insulated against US rate hikes: Costello

AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 APR 2004
... there will be a movement in American interest rates," Costello told reporters after meeting with US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. "We've got a lot more insulation than many other countries... There will be worldwide pressure in relation to ...

Market Wrap

In Sydney today, Australian stocks are likely to climb a little this morning after Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan overnight soothed US market fears of an imminent rate rise and offered an optimistic economic outlook. Negative sentiment from ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2004
... Australian stocks are set to stumble after US markets dropped sharply overnight following comments from Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan that were taken to imply that interest rates there could soon rise. The Australian share market pushed higher ...

RBA decision to leave rates unchanged no surprise

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2004
... very slow coming through and so I'd prefer to leave my rate forecast flat," he said. National Australia Bank chief economist Alan Oster said he had not expected the central bank to hike rates this month. "We think it will be a couple of months before ...

Market Wrap

... compared with yesterday's close of 0.7872/77. The local unit rose by as much as one US cent after US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's testimony to congress on Wednesday drove investors to dump US dollars. Greenspan's commentary also removed ...

Market Wrap

The US dollar fell against most major currencies today on comments by Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan expressing little concern over the US currency's recent decline. The dollar dropped as low as US$1.2838 per euro, nearing its record low of ...

Market Wrap

... erasing the previous session's losses, as investors anticipated upbeat comments on the economy from Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan in testimony on Wednesday. The Dow was lifted by manufacturer 3M Co., which raised its dividend, and investors ...

American wheat growers slam FTA

... exports all of Australia's wheat in competition to separate companies based in other countries. Wheat Associates chairman Alan Lee said the US had missed its chance to tackle AWB. "We are very disappointed that the US-Australia free trade agreement did ...