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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012
... Standard & Poor's downgrade of Spain's credit rating overshadowed an upbeat assessment of the US economy by the Federal Reserve. Traders were also following a lead from Wall Street and European investors in the wake of the International Monetary Fund's ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2012
... Chevron slashed its earnings outlook. Shares took little notice of the improved view of the US economy from the Federal Reserve's regional "Beige Book" survey. At the close on Wednesday the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 128.56 points, or 0.95 ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... 3,136.19. IG Markets market strategist Stan Shamu said the negativity was because the positive data might mean the US Federal Reserve's quantitative easing (QE) program might not go on for as long. "Everyone's addicted to this QE morphine... to drive ...

Failure is not an option

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
It's been a month -- or thereabouts -- since the European Central Bank -- followed by the US Federal Reserve followed by the Bank of Japan -- gave financial markets what they wished, prayed and hoped for and fired the first salvo of quantitative easing. ...

Spanish fly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
... Monetary Transactions. Germany's court found that the EFSF/ESM is in accord with the country's constitution. The US Federal Reserve set QE3 in motion. Even those we didn't expect to do did. The Bank of Japan announced APP (asset purchase programme) also ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
... world that it can meet deficit-reduction targets. It was the best day for the US market since September 13, when Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke announced further steps by the central bank to speed the economic recovery. Stocks were also helped ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
... the US and European bourses as concern re-emerges over the eurozone's debt problems and confidence wanes for the Federal Reserve's QE3 move. At 0815 AEST on Thursday, the December share price index futures contract was down 18 points at 4,349. In economic ...

Investor confidence index down: State Street

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
... Kenneth Froot, who co-developed the index with State Street Associate's Paul O'Connell. Given the United States Federal Reserve's latest quantitative easing program, Froot regarded this third consecutive decline in North American investor confidence ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
... lower at $55.24, National Australia Bank dropped three cents to $25.55 and Westpac lost 10 cents to $24.44. A Federal Reserve official's doubts about a positive impact of the QE3 stimulus pulled the rug from under US stock markets, sending them lower ...

Pick your poison

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
... market? With so much liquidity being pumped into the system by three of the world's major central banks - the US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan - markets appear unconvinced. Wall Street was down again with the S&P 500 ...