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Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2007
... 17,481.21. HONG KONG - Stocks sank, tracking falling global markets and comments by former US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan over China's high market value. The benchmark Hang Seng Index dropped 278.31 points to 20,520.66. WELLINGTON - The NZ ...

Economic round-up: Chinese whispers and inflation rumbles

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2007
Comments by former US Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan, over China's "unsustainable" market weighed heavily on the Australian dollar yesterday, while the OECD flagged a threat to our inflation. On Wednesday Dr Greenspan, speaking by satellite ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAY 2007
... NEW YORK - US stocks edged lower overnight as a warning about Chinese stocks by former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan erased gains fueled by takeover talk in the aluminum sector. Greenspan said he feared a "dramatic contraction" in Chinese stocks ...

Manage your retirement: Greenspan

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2007
Former US Federal Reserve Chairman Dr Alan Greenspan said US Government social security and Medicare liabilities would be hard to meet and baby boomers worldwide needed to be more active in their retirement preparations. Dr Greenspan was the keynote ...

Daily Economic Update

... US consumer spending as American's use their increased housing wealth as ATMs. Remember that former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan estimated that about half of MEWs are spent by the US consumer. With the continued lifting of interest rates by the Fed, housing ...

Weekly economic round-up

Despite worldwide speculation and anxiety leading up to US Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan's retirement, financial markets were largely well-behaved when 'the maestro' turned over the helms of the US central bank to White House economic adviser Ben Bernanke ...

Daily economic update

... professionals (up 1.6 per cent). Vacancies declined by 12.6 per cent from a year ago. US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's retirement and last Federal Open Market Committee meeting dominated overseas news. As expected, the FOMC unanimously voted ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2006
... interest rates for the 14th time in a row since its tightening policy began in June 2004. Meeting on the final day of Alan Greenspan's 18-and-a-half-year tenure as chairman, the Fed raised the benchmark federal funds rate to 4.5 per cent from 4.25 per ...

Weekly economic round-up

... overshadowed by US monetary policy deliberations by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) given that this will be Alan Greenspan's final meeting as Fed Chairman. He will be replaced by Ben Bernanke.

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2005
... in six months, after White House economic adviser Ben Bernanke's nomination to succeed Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan put to rest some market uncertainty. Earnings reports also buoyed investor sentiment. The Dow Jones industrial average rose ...