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Trump's tweets and deeds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2017
... and deeds. Everybody and their dogs would recall Trump's executive order barring the citizens of seven Muslim countries - Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen - from US soil for the next 90 days and the suspension of admission of all refugees ...

One week delivery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2017
Yes people, we are now staring at Dow 20,000! For sure, the Dow as an equity market measure is flawed and that in terms of market and economic fundamentals, this means diddly-squat. However, in the world of technical analysts, this is the mark where ...

Drown baby, drown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2016
... appear to be drowning - drowning in a sea of oil, that is....and there'll be more gushing out of the grounds soon, out of Iran as Friday's speculations turned to fact over the weekend when the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) found that Iran ...

Demographic darlings and disasters revealed

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016
... action would greatly improve investor confidence. The top five countries in this group are Nepal, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Iran and India. Australia's demographic index ranking is 98 out of 168, a somewhat middling performance with its ageing population ...

China's January effect

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2016
Happy New Year to all you gentle readers!... and it looks like we'd be needing more well-wishes of "A Happy and Prosperous New Year!" the way financial markets have panned out at the start of 2016. Equity markets around the globe dropped -- big time ...

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Noi, noi, noi!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2015
... worst-hit advanced economy from slowing Chinese investment growth, according to International Monetary Fund research. Only Iran, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Zambia and Chile would suffer bigger effects on their economies." (Australian Financial Review) ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2015
... following the Saudi-led air assault on Shi'ite rebels in Yemen. "What seems to have got tongues wagging... is potentially Iran coming back online with a lot of their production," OptionsXpress market analyst Ben Le Brun said. By noon (AEDT) Woodside ...

From the mouths of Feds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015
... prices; weakening US economic activity/re-strengthening US economic activity and the latest... Germanwings and Saudi Arabia/Iran/Yemen, et farting cetera. But at the end of the day, it's the Fed and what it does to the fed funds rate that'll be the ultimate ...

Sliding oil price would stop the slide in the oil price

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
... result, they can withstand a low oil price quite comfortably. On the other hand countries such as Nigeria, Venezuela and Iran are hard up. Their oil industries have less favourable costs. They cannot afford for the oil price to sag as it has been doing ...

BNP Paribas board approves $9bn fine

AFP  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
... will also plead guilty to avoid an otherwise certain trial for the bank's deals from 2002 to 2009 with countries like Cuba, Iran and Sudan that are blacklisted by the US. The investigation probed more than $US100 billion ($A108.20 billion) of transactions ...