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Pengana eyes reporting season short-selling opportunity

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2013
... mind. Meanwhile, gold, 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 ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2013
... 21,362.42 while Shanghai tumbled 1.52 per cent, or 30.75 points, to 1,992.65. Global equities rose this week after Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke told lawmakers in Washington that the bank's $US85 billion-a-month bond-buying scheme would be kept ...

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LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013
... 500 have closed at new record highs on robust corporate earnings reports and the latest reaffirmation of the US Federal Reserve's easy-money policy. The Dow Jones Industrial Average on Thursday rose 78.02 (0.50 per cent) to 15,548.54. The broad-market ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
The Australian share market has opened higher following Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's reassurances on the tapering of US stimulus measures. In his testimony to Congress, Dr Bernanke said the Fed would likely scale back its $US85 billion-a-month ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher following gains on Wall Street after US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said tapering of stimulus measures was not on a "preset course". In testimony to Congress, Dr Bernanke reiterated that the Fed ...

Australian economy "professionally managed": World Bank

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013
... market over-reactions." Turning to the global economy, Basu said concerns about tapering of stimulus by the US Federal Reserve were superficial in the face of what may still arise from the eurozone debt crisis. "The European Central Bank has calmed markets ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013
... looks set to open lower, after Wall Street snapped a three-day streak of records as investors looked ahead to Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's testimony to Congress. At 0700 AEST on Wednesday, the September share price index futures contract was ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2013
... fall in the precious metal's price and a rise in the US dollar. The positive mood in US equities came after US Federal Reserve board member James Bullard on Friday suggested the central bank should keep pumping money into the world's largest economy ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2013
... Japan's Nikkei edged higher as traders bought back into the US dollar following comments from the head of the US Federal Reserve that its stimulus program would be kept in place for some time. Tokyo rose 0.23 per cent, or 33.67 points, to 14,506.25 but ...

Gold headed to $3k an ounce says ETF pioneer

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
... printing of money." Tuckwell, who was reportedly worth $775 million in 2012, said that potential tapering in the US Federal Reserve's quantitative easing program does not deal with the problem. "It's one thing to actually slow down the bond purchases ...