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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... ever challenge to Washington's top-line AAA grading. Voicing strong doubts over the ability of battling Republicans and Democrats to agree a credible plan on cutting the fiscal deficit, S&P gave the country until 2013 to act or face losing its coveted ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2011
... 31 points, or 0.62 per cent, to 5,036.5 points. NEW YORK - US stocks closed lower on Friday as a deadline loomed for Democrats and Republicans to agree on budget cuts before the government would have to shut down. Markets started upward early in the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
... failed to resolve a budget crisis that could lead to a shutdown of parts of the government. Traders seemed uneasy as Democrats and Republicans continued to battle over cuts to this year's federal budget, with a deadline to prevent the shutdown looming ...

Fed money drives black swans away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
... you believe the scaremongers there's another one looming and its name is ' US government shutdown'. Yes Virginia, the Democrats and the GOP are currently scrambling in Washington to forge a compromise on government budget cuts else the government will ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
... more focused on the policies of the Federal Reserve rather than the threat of a government shutdown if Republicans and Democrats do not reach an agreement on federal spending levels. Stocks had edged lower in early trading, following most world markets ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
... government on course to cut deficits by about $US1.1 trillion ($A1.1 trillion) over the coming decade. Republicans and Democrats have sparred over how much spending to cut. The worry is that slashing spending could imperil the economic recovery. Bond ...

Thanks but no thanks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
... already low yields bond investors are getting from US bonds. And yes, there's a plus. The Republican's creaming of the Democrats at the just concluded mid-term elections has heightened the prospect that the Big O would have no choice but to extend his ...

Politics shape investment choices: study

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 5 NOV 2010
... fees. The researchers looked at statistics from the UBS/Gallup Investor Optimism Survey between 1991 to 2002 as the Democrats and Republicans each took turns in office. The results were the same whether investors regardless of their political preferences ...

Planes, trains & automobiles and the bush

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2010
... widening America's budget deficit. Whether Obama ultimately finds funding for his shovels or not, the prospect of the Democrats losing control of the Senate at the 2 November mid-term elections is real. It happened in the UK -- the government was gridlocked ...

PM Gillard makes wealth reforms more likely

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
... seats. Recall that the Howard government won control of the senate in 2004 following the collapse of the Australian Democrats that saw its middle class voter base return to their Liberal Party origins. The Victorian ALP's preference deal miscalculation ...