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S&P 500: 22 corrections in 6 months

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
... six months into 2014! Randy Frederick - "managing director of active trading and derivatives for Charles Schwab in Austin, Texas" - interview with Reuters underscores the market's sentiment each and every time Wall Street gets another leg up and over ...

IFM bets $1bn on US shale gas revolution

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
... Investors has invested US$1 billion in a new liquefied natural gas (LNG) loading facility on Quintana Island near Freeport in Texas. The project will add liquefaction capabilities to the existing port at Quintana Island, allowing natural gas to be liquefied ...

BNP Paribas adds global manager to range

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... and disciplined value process convinced us that they were a great choice." Barrow Hanley was founded in 1979 in Dallas, Texas and has been providing value-oriented investment strategies to institutional investors, mutual funds, and family offices for ...

Wall Street slips on oil slick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... again. Gulf War the third. Just in from Bloomberg, "Obama Won't Rule Out Airstrikes to Aid Iraq's Army". Oil spikes! "West Texas Intermediate and Brent crudes surged to eight-month highs as violence escalated across northern and central Iraq, increasing ...

IFM invests $1.3 billion in LNG facility

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 DEC 2013
... funding in a natural gas liquefaction and liquefied natural gas (LNG) loading facility in Quintana Island near Freeport, Texas. The project, planned by Freeport LNG Expansion, L.P., will involve the development of three liquefaction plants, also known ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2013
... supported in overnight markets," he said. "In the London Metal Exchange market, the base metals went lower and gold and West Texas Intermediate, the oil side of things, they were basically unchanged." BHP Billiton added 46 cents, or 1.23 per cent, to ...

Counting up and counting down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
... the country could end up in default if Obama doesn't negotiate. "That's the path we're on," Boehner said." Filibustering Texas Republican senator and 'talk-a-thoner" Ted Cruz must have slipped something in his drink Saturday evening. And so on, and on ...

December taper, pants on fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2013

September morn' or September mourn?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2013
... tighten by Labor Day?" Tonight we're going back to the future.A Going back to that fateful day on the 22nd of May -- when Texas Republican and head of the Joint Economics Committee Kevin Brady posed this question upon US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2013
... its bond-buying program more quickly, analysts said. Some investors also fixated on comments from Federal Reserve Bank of Texas President Richard Fisher that advocated a quick tapering. LONDON - European stocks ended in mixed mode as markets digested ...