- 18 Mar 2013 10:31 - Matt Quigley
- All eyes will be on central banks in the US, India and South Africa as they announce their latest rates decisions.
- 27 Aug 2012 06:43 - Matt Quigley
- Do the world's central banks plan to restart the printing presses? The question has preoccupied markets for months. This week may yield some clues.
- 17 Aug 2012 14:15 - Dominic Rushe
- The US vice-presidential candidate has denied he profited from a 2008 meeting with the Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke.
- 04 Jun 2012 06:54 - Matt Quigley
- Last week's market carnage in the US and Europe spread to Asia this morning. Now the ball is in the central banks' court, writes Matt Quigley.
- 26 Mar 2012 07:07 - Matt Quigley
- Snapshots of EU and US consumer sentiment are due this week, but all eyes in SA will be on the Reserve Bank's interest rate decision on Thursday.
- 04 Oct 2011 16:46 - Pan Pylas
- Stocks slid again as Europe struggled to contain a debt crisis in Greece that is threatening to plunge the continent back into recession.
- 09 Sep 2011 09:31 - David Bailey
- The US Federal Reserve chairperson Ben Bernanke has said the US central bank would spare no effort to boost weak growth.
- 27 Aug 2011 11:28 - Staff Reporter
- The Federal Reserve on Friday dashed Wall Street's hopes of an immediate boost to the flagging Unites States economy.
- 26 Aug 2011 07:43 - Pamela Sampson
- Asian stock markets were unsteady as investors waited to see whetherBen Bernanke would promise new steps to help the US economy ward off a double-dip.
- 15 Jul 2011 13:54 - Phillip Inman
- Ben Bernanke, the United States Federal Reserve chairman, is poised to inject further funds into the US economy.
- 29 Jan 2010 08:28 - Krista Hughes
- Glenn Stevens, the governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, is an accidental hero of the global financial crisis.
- 16 Sep 2009 11:13 - Rob Lever
- The recession in the United States "is very likely over" but its economy remains weak, Federal Reserve chairperson Ben Bernanke says.
- 25 Aug 2009 15:54 - Stephen Collinson
- US President Barack Obama on Tuesday awarded Federal Reserve chairperson Ben Bernanke a second term.
- 25 Aug 2009 06:58 - Staff Reporter
- US President Barack Obama will nominate Ben Bernanke to a second term as chairperson of the Federal Reserve on Tuesday.
- 01 Nov 2008 07:49 - Staff Reporter
- Sharp falls in consumer spending in the US and Germany deepened fears of a global recession as markets ended one of their most traumatic months.
- 16 Oct 2008 07:49 - Staff Reporter
- Emergency measures to tackle the financial crisis provided little relief on Thursday, as stock markets around the world took a battering.
- 14 Oct 2008 15:29 - Staff Reporter
- The United States pledged on Tuesday to pump $250-billion into its banks, following similar action in Europe, though a threat of recession remained.
- 23 Sep 2008 15:22 - Staff Reporter
- The architects of a $700-billion bailout for the United States financial system urged lawmakers on Tuesday to move quickly.
- 20 Sep 2008 09:37 - Robert MacMillan
- There's something about hundreds of billions of dollars vanishing overnight that begs a comparison to the 1929 market crash and the Great Depression.
- 20 Sep 2008 06:12 - Staff Reporter
- The United States surged into action on Friday to launch an all-out attack against the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
