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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUL 2010
... at 2,245.89 points. The gains more than wiped out the loss suffered a day earlier when US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke highlighted at a congressional hearing an "unusually uncertain" US economic outlook. Only 397 stocks fell on the New York ...

Penny for Benny's thoughts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2010
... waiting on the sidelines for the really big event - at least for this week. And this is US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's semi-annual testimony on the US economy and interest rates before the House Financial Services Committee and the Senate ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2010
... 4,533. NEW YORK - US stocks finished lower, but recovered from early losses in reaction to US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's plans to dismantle the central bank's economic supports. Dr Bernanke was due to appear before a House of Representatives ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2009
... in major economies. US industrial production data, merger and acquisition activity and US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's comments a day earlier that the US was out of recession all fuelled the positive sentiment. London's benchmark FTSE 100 ...

Three wise men - maybe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2009
... conference. The tone was similarly positive at the Brookings Institution in Washington, with US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke declaring that, "The recession is very likely over at this point." But he was not making 'a lot of money' - or at least ...

Best laid plan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
... spend, spend, spend. Well I guess, now that Wall Street is back in a jolly good mood, US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke thought it wise to jump the gun by laying out his exit plan to Congress before market clamour for it grows loud and annoying ...

Riccardian equivalence redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2009
... government creditors now wringing their hands. The jury is still out on America. Even US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is hedging his bet. In his testimony before Congress overnight, he remarked that, 'significant stresses remain in many markets' ...

Que sera, sera

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2008
... target rate below 1 per cent is certainly feasible. This was the statement delivered by US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke in his speech before the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce in Texas. Financial markets practically ignored this statement ...

Fed Gloom

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2008
Market Movers Overnight (16 July) Fed Gloom US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's testimony before the US Congress last night catapulted the Australian dollar to a 25-year high in overnight trading. The Australian dollar broke above the US$0.9800 ...

Market Movers Overnight: Bernanke's speech

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2008
Last night US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke spoke before the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's Forum in Arlington, Virginia, where he stressed that the Fed remains committed to financial stability and that the US Central Bank may extend ...