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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011
... Reserve policy-setting meeting, slated for release Wednesday. After its September 21 meeting, the Federal Open Market Committee unveiled a $US400 billion stimulus plan to boost the faltering economy, a move opposed by three of the Fed's policy panel ...

Twisting the blues away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2011
... investors hadn't bothered to read pass the Fed's opening statement, "Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in August indicates that economic growth remains slow. Recent indicators point to continuing weakness in overall labor ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2011
... shed 52.05 points (2.01 per cent) to 2,538.19. At the end of a two-day policy meeting, the Fed's Federal Open Market Committee announced plans to shift $US400 billion in its shorter-term debt portfolio holdings to longer-term bonds in a bid to lower ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2011
... package. The market also was anticipating the end of the US central bank's two-day meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee on Wednesday, with some traders expecting the launch of new stimulus to kick-start the weak economy. The bond market was mixed. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
... loosen monetary policy and those who fear such steps would raise the risk of inflation. The latest Federal Open Market Committee minutes suggested opponents were swaying due to the state of the US economy, said Marc Pado, chief US market strategist for ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011
... losses, the markets crept upwards and closed higher after minutes of the August 9 meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee showed members discussing what to do if the economy continued to stall. In the latest sign of US economic weakness, a survey ...

Stocks rally hard as Australia deemed a bargain buy

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011
... "exceptionally low levels" for at least the next two years. In a statement released after the closely watched Federal Open Market Committee meeting overnight, a divided Fed said it would keep rates close to zero until the middle of 2013 due to US economic ...

Fed move checks markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011
... this small Ben one better. B-I-N-G-O! By just changing a single phrase in the policy statement, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) changed the financial markets' mood from one of desperation to 'there's still hope.' That feeling of hope was underlined ...

Stocks in freefall on recession fears, banks cut mortgage rates

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
... 0.60%. Susan Buckley, Managing Director, Global Fixed Interest at QIC said all eyes would be on the Federal Open Market Committee meeting tonight seeking reassurance that policy-makers would staunch the bleeding. "There's a lot of speculation of what ...

US Fed hints at QE3

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2011
... of a third round of quantitative easing from the US Federal Reserve emerged from the minutes of a Federal Open Market Committee meeting released overnight. The FOMC minutes from its June 21-22 meeting revealed that policy makers disagree on whether additional ...