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The US Congress' Dance with Default Impressed Policymakers
Oct 22, 2013Deal or no deal, the US Congress' dance with default impressed policymakers and investors in China and Japan with just how vulnerable their own economic revival plans are to the next political tantrum on Capitol Hill. The 11th-hour ...
Tags: Dollar Drama, Economy
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Local Sharemarket Fell in Cautious Trade Ahead of Bernanke Testimony to US Congress
May 23, 2013The local sharemarket fell in cautious trade yesterday before US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's testimony to US congress and the release overnight of the minutes of this month's Fed board meeting. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 closed ...
Tags: Sharemarket, Bernanke, US Congress
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Dollar Remained Below Parity with Greenback as Fed Talk Buoys US Currency
May 14, 2013The dollar remained below parity with the greenback as speculation about a winding back of US quantitative easing buoyed the American currency. The Australian dollar fell below 100 US cents shortly after 9am AEST today, repeating its ...
Tags: Australian Dollar, US Currency
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Benchmark S&P/ASX 200 Was up 0.8 Per Cent at 4871.6
Jan 30, 2013Australian Commonwealth Government 10-year bond yields rose 12 basis points to 3.44 per cent following a similar move in US Treasury bonds during the Australia Day long weekend. At 11.38am AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 was up 0.8 per ...
Tags: Australian Commonwealth Government, US Treasury bonds, sharemarket
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Commodities Have Experienced a Renaissance After The Bursting of The Internet Bubble
Jan 5, 2013“The most valuable commodity I know of is information.” (Gordon Gecko in “Wall Street” by Oliver Stone) Commodities have experienced a renaissance after the bursting of the internet bubble at the end of the ...
Tags: Commodities, Metallurgy, Mineral