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Operation auction squad

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2007
... happening inside Australia's Reserve Bank. The Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, the European Central Bank, the US Federal Reserve and the Swiss National Bank have just announced a new plan to create an auction system where term credit loans and bonds ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2007
... The Australian stock market closed weaker on Wednesday after a smaller than expected interest rate cut by the US Federal Reserve helped push United States markets sharply lower. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 65.2 points lower at 6615.2, and the ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2007
... some of the losses it made at the open. US markets were lower overnight after disappointment there that the US Federal Reserve's quarter of a percentage point rate cut was not aggressive enough. "The markets have taken that news quite badly," Mr Wacher ...

US-Aust rates spread widens to 250 bps

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2007
... to the sub-prime fiasco. With consumption spending in the US amounting to two-third of their entire GDP, the US Federal Reserve had little choice. The big fear from the sub-prime mess is whether the fall-out would spread from the financial to the real ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2007
... Australian share market finished down on Monday in generally quiet trading as investors sat tight ahead of a US Federal Reserve meeting later this week. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index closed 29.6 points lower at 6625.1 and the All Ordinaries finished ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2007
... expected to open flat today after Friday's lacklustre session on Wall Street and as investors sit tight ahead of a US Federal Reserve meeting this week. At 0754 AEDT, on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index was up two points to ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2007
... AEDT, under the ticker code TEU. Australian stocks overcame a poor start on Friday to rise 1.4 per cent after US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke reignited hopes for another US rate cut by Christmas. The local rally would have been stronger if National ...

US Fed hints rates holiday may be over

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2007
The US Federal Reserve, stung by criticism it dropped rates to protect favoured institutions in a preferred segment, is warning they won't keep protecting them forever. "To be sure, lowering interest rates to keep the economy on an even keel when adverse ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2007
The Australian stock market had hit new highs at noon, boosted by the US Federal Reserve interest rate cut overnight and stronger metals and oil prices. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index hit a new record intraday high of 6830 in morning trade - eclipsing ...

Airing the dirty sub-prime linen

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2007
... been so lucky with job cuts of 3,000. Some relief to these shocks and to market confidence could come from the US Federal Reserve where a rate cut is looking inevitable. Considering these pending announcements and what Merrill's blow-out did to the markets ...