1. He was renominated and confirmed by referendum for a further six-year term in October 1987.

2. It was also poised to renominate the incumbent prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki.

3. The Democrats will renominate President Obama as their candidate at their national convention the following week.

4. Both Major and Hurd were then immediately nominated as candidates for the second round, while Heseltine was also renominated.

5. Michael Feroli, an economist with JPMorgan in New York, said having a Democratic president renominate a Republican Fed chairman "should be a positive for foreign investor confidence."

6. Gates also announced he is recommending to the president that he renominate Adm.

7. In addition, Obama will need to decide possibly by next fall whether to renominate Bernanke for a second four-year term as chairman. His current term ends on January 31, 2010.