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Market Wrap - PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2013
... closed modestly lower after data showed the US economy unexpectedly shrank in the last quarter of 2012, and the Federal Reserve maintained its loose monetary policy. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 44.77 points, or 0.32 per cent, to 13,909.65. ...

Market Wrap - AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2013
... closed modestly lower after data showed the economy unexpectedly shrank in the fourth quarter last year and the Federal Reserve maintained its loose monetary policy. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 44.77 points (0.32 per cent) to 13,909.65. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013
... following a mixed performance on Wall Street ahead of consumer confidence and housing data and in anticipation of a US Federal Reserve monetary policy meeting. At 0644 AEDT on Wednesday, the March share price index futures contract was up one point at ...

Good, better, best

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
... current investor rotation out of defensives and into growth, and punctuated by gathering speculation that the US Federal Reserve could decided to reduce - if not altogether stop - its monthly purchases (US$45 billion in Treasury notes and US$40 billion ...

Global bond melt-down on cards: Harris Fraser

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2013
A major turn in the US Federal Reserve's policy has increased the potential for a catastrophic fall across fixed income markets, a factor which is being largely ignored by the global investment community, according to wealth manager Harris Fraser. At ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2013
The Australian market looks set to open virtually unchanged ahead of a speech by US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke. At 0641 AEDT on Tuesday, the March share price index futures contract was down three points at 4,686. No major economic news is ...

Market Wrap - AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2012
... this year, the Labor Department reported. LONDON - Europe's main stock markets fell as investors digested more US Federal Reserve monetary easing and an EU deal to give the European Central Bank (ECB) supervisory powers over the banking sector. Sentiment ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2012
The Australian market has opened flat after Wall Street fell in response to comments from US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke that there was nothing he could do if the US fell off the "fiscal cliff". At 1036 AEDT on Wednesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2012
... start when it opens on Thursday after Wall Street closed steady despite earlier gains on new measures from the US Federal Reserve to boost the US economy. Wall Street was higher but fell in the last hour of trade as Fed chairman Ben Bernanke said the ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012
... the fiscal cliff. The US dollar edged up slightly against the yen after falling in New York trade ahead of a US Federal Reserve meeting that begins later in the day, with expectations it will announce more monetary easing. Tokyo on Tuesday ended flat ...