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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 OCT 2013
... public holiday. With the government shutdown moving into a ninth day, global investors are concerned Republicans and Democrats will not find a way round a budgetary impasse before an October 17 deadline to raise the borrowing limit. WELLINGTON - New ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013
... concerns about political gridlock in the US hit investor sentiment across the globe. A standoff between Republicans and Democrats in Congress has already caused the partial shutdown of the US federal government and the country is edging closer a deadline ...

Obama expected to pick Yellen as US Fed chair

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013
... secretary and White House economic adviser Lawrence Summers, withdrew from consideration amid mounting opposition from Democrats on the Senate Banking Committee - reinforced by his close association with Obamacare, the Frank-Dodd reforms and the post-GFC ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013
... shows no signs of being solved, fuelling fears Washington will suffer a catastrophic default. Despite Republicans and Democrats digging in their heels and raising the stakes in the Capitol Hill deadlock the US dollar rebounded against the yen, lifting ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
... across the world have been in decline for most of the past couple of weeks due to the standoff between Republicans and Democrats in Congress. The US government has partially shut down after the Congress failed to pass a budget and the two sides face ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013
... prices over the past week. Mr Radford said traders were putting aside concern about budget talks between Republicans and Democrats in the US. If the two sides cannot reach an agreement by the start of the new budget on October 1, the US Federal government ...

Problems, problems, problems

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2013
... nothing! Not only is war brewing in the geo-political stage, there's also one that's about to erupt (again) between the Democrats and the Republicans as they engage in oratory battle over the US debt ceiling. US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew brought this ...

Cut welfare, give savings to defence: UK minister

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2013
... government departments with specific welfare savings proposals. But according to statements attributed to the UK Liberal Democrats, the Conservative Party's coalition partner, any such proposals could only proceed if they were accompanied by corresponding ...

Repressed rally

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2013
... dealing starts. Expect palpitations ahead as brinkmanship becomes headline. But this will be all over by March. The Democrats and the Republicans will shake hands (at the last minute) and congratulate themselves on a job well done. This gone, businesses ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2012
... cliff". The "fiscal cliff" refers to a series of tax hikes and spending cuts that will come into effect on January 1 if Democrats and Republicans cannot reach a deal. "We've opened slightly higher on the back of a good night on Wall Street," Mr Smith ...