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Market lower as Wall Street falls

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
... price index futures contract was down nine points at 5,6732. On Friday, US stocks finished lower after Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said the plan to raise interest rates this year was on track. Locally on Monday, OZ Minerals and Reef Casino Trust ...

Running on neutral

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... intra-day trade before finally closing sharply unchanged. Either it doesn't know where to go next or is waiting for Chair Janet Yellen's yak tonight - who's unsure when to go. Ahh, but then she repeated and reiterated and echoed so many, many, times ...

Lies, stats and damned double seasonal adjustments

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2015
... instantly played in my head as soon as I read about what the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - the one that Fed Chair Janet Yellen was president of from 2004 to 2010 - just did. The San Fran Fed solved "The Puzzle of Weak First-Quarter GDP Growth"! ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... ground in the middle of the week after weaker-than-expected US economic data and a warning from US Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen that stock valuations were "quite high". Tokyo stocks on Thursday fell 1.23 per cent after a three-day holiday. The ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
... Wall Street fell for a second straight session following disappointing jobs data and a warning from Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen on high equity valuations. Locally on Thursday, official jobs figures for April are released, and the Australian Industry ...

A$ at 80c

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015
... year with a gentle nudge up and then back to data watching for the next gentle nudge and the next. But the longer Fed Chair Janet remains "not impatient" the greater our very own RBA Gov Glenn's headache. Speculations of a later-rather-than-sooner and ...

2015: a lift year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2015
... December 2008). Only Mr. Murphy - "anything can go wrong, will go wrong" - can stop it now. This, as much, was what Fed chair Janet L. Yellen told you, I and Irene at the "The New Normal Monetary Policy" research conference sponsored by the Federal Reserve ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015
... going to tighten any time soon and equities can continue to climb in the wake of this," he added. US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen also hinted in testimony to US lawmakers this week the central bank was in no hurry to raise interest rates. HONG ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
... opened flat despite fresh records on Wall Street on the back of positive congressional testimony by US Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen about interest rates. CommSec chief economist Craig James says there were impressive international lead-ins for ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
... or 0.3 per cent, at 5,890 points. NEW YORK - The Dow and S&P 500 have bolted to fresh records after Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen pledged a cautious approach to raising interest rates. The Dow Jones Industrial Average on Tuesday rose 92.35 points ...