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Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2012
... continued to brush off political sparring over the cliff talks, with traders seeming to presume that the deep divide between Democrats and Republicans will be overcome before the January 1 deadline for implementation of harsh tax hikes and spending cuts. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2012
... fiscal cliff refers to the huge tax hikes and spending cuts that will come into force on January 1 if Republicans and Democrats do not reach a compromise. "We did take a bit of a positive lead from the close of the US session," he said. "We did see a ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012
... recession affecting the country if planned tax hikes and spending cuts come into force on January 1, which Republicans and Democrats are currently negotiating. "Europe economic data is also showing signs of weakness and everyone is a bit scared Europe ...

Market Wrap - PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2012
... force on January 1, and are expected to send the world's largest economy back into recession, if US Republicans and Democrats can't reach a compromise. "What happens there happens here these days," Mr Peacock said. Europe's main stock markets also dropped ...

The song remains the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012
... in, well, very much the same as it was the day before the elections. President Barrack Obama remains president. The Democrats control the Senate and the GOP dominates Congress. Yet Wall Street seems to have fallen off a cliff this week. I vowed not to ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2012
... over Republican challenger Mitt Romney in a closely fought race late Tuesday. But voters left Congress divided, with Democrats maintaining the Senate and Republicans holding the House of Representatives. LONDON - European stock markets closed lower and ...

Political punch trading greatest risk to US economy

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2012
... parties say they will pursue policies aimed at reining in the budget deficit. However, they disagree on the approach. The Democrats are in favour of taxing the rich, while the Republicans are looking to cut taxes for everyone and reducing spending. Zwi ...

Grexit and the games people play

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012
... and the Spaniards, and the Italians and the Dutch. And oh, judging from austerity crusader Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) recent defeat to the pro-growth Social Democratic Party (SPD) at the North Rhine-Westphalia elections, even German voters ...

Lookin' for trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2011
... the deficit" is expected to announce today that it has super failed to reach a deal in time for Wednesday's deadline. Democrats and Republicans super failed to reach common ground on how to cut at least US$1.2 trillion from the budget deficit over 10-years ...

Congressmen agitate for US transaction tax

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
Two US Congressional Democrats have announced they will again present legislation to introduce a US transaction tax modelled on the European transaction tax that is already set to take effect from 2014. Senator Tom Harkin and Congressman Peter DeFazio ...