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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2007
... move the Australian dollar. "There'll also be a lot of focus on what's happening in the US," he said. US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke will deliver the central bank's mid-year monetary policy report on Wednesday. "Depending on what he says and ...

Economic round-up: Greenspan versus the poet

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2007
... economy. In stark contrast to China's inability to walk the talk of the experts, every time the former US Federal Reserve Chairman, 81 year-old Alan Greenspan, opens his mouth it seems that US markets react. At a conference in New York, Greenspan said ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2007
... the market's drift downward today came after weakness in the US. Wall Street stocks fell after the US Federal Reserve chairman dampened hopes of an interest rate cut, saying inflation was still a concern. "We have followed suit," Mr Sekely said.

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2007
... Mueller said concerns about a correction in the Chinese sharemarket, first mooted last week by former US Federal Reserve chairman Allan Greenspan, were continuing to stress local investors. "The Chinese government has just increased a tax on stock transactions ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2007
... points to 17,481.21. HONG KONG - Stocks sank, tracking falling global markets and comments by former US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan over China's high market value. The benchmark Hang Seng Index dropped 278.31 points to 20,520.66. WELLINGTON ...

Economic round-up: Chinese whispers and inflation rumbles

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2007
Comments by former US Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan, over China's "unsustainable" market weighed heavily on the Australian dollar yesterday, while the OECD flagged a threat to our inflation. On Wednesday Dr Greenspan, speaking by satellite ...

Manage your retirement: Greenspan

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2007
Former US Federal Reserve Chairman Dr Alan Greenspan said US Government social security and Medicare liabilities would be hard to meet and baby boomers worldwide needed to be more active in their retirement preparations. Dr Greenspan was the keynote ...

Emerging markets enter hibernation

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 31 JUL 2006
... the strong net outflows experienced by global bond funds, apparently on the back of comments made by US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke indicating that US monetary policy may be pausing.

Weekly economic round-up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JUN 2006
... core inflation rate to 3.6 per cent -- the highest since April 1995. This is important because the US Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke, recently stressed that the Fed is particularly monitoring the three- and six-month trends in the core CPI as ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2006
... 8,000 to 295,000 from a week earlier. Expectations were for an increase to 320,000. Comments from US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke also helped ease market anxiety over the country's growth outlook. In his speech before the Economic Club of Chicago ...