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Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2012
... London on Tuesday, after the bank was accused by US regulators of hiding sanction-busting multi-billion-dollar trades with Iran. Tokyo closed up 0.88 per cent, or 77.85 points, at 8,881.16, Seoul put on 0.87 per cent, or 16.43 points, to end at 1,903.23 ...

Blahs take the blues away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2012
... time. It's not just Europe. Let's not forget there is a fiscal cliff in the US Let's not forget geopolitics is heating up in Iran again." Pa-lease Mohamed. Let's not forget you work for a company that invest in bonds. Let's also not forget that the only ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2012
... Standard Chartered Bank dived after being accused by the US of hiding hundreds of billions of dollars of transactions with Iran despite sanctions imposed by Washington. Tokyo rose 0.88 per cent, or 77.02 points, to 8,803.31, while Seoul closed flat ...

Playing with a loaded dice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2012
... Dubai World and its debt blowout. Then it was the Arab Spring and Kaddafi in early 2011. There were also North Korea and Iran. They seem like teenie-weenie small beers now, don't they? But at least, they had the element of surprise in them. They caught ...

Perfect timing for a "perfect storm" alert

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
... (and surging oil prices), the Japanese tsunami/nuclear reactor meltdown, the US losing its AAA credit rating, North Korea, Iran, etc. - at 1334.8 points, the S&P 500 index remains nearly double what it was three years ago. Is there a chance that Dr. ...

Australian instos exposed to AML risks

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
... nations on a sanctions list and their agencies that results in an investor breaching an international trade ban. For example, Iran is a major facilitator of Middle East shipping, global trade and of course oil and energy exports, and it's much easier ...

Show me the stats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2012
... us from the current one. We can only hope for the best outcome from the current uncertainties - Europe, China, US, Syria, Iran, North Korea -- that's dogging everyone everywhere but we should also be prepared for the worst. Short of the predicted end ...

No greed, no fear, no volume

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2012
Boring! If there's one word to describe last week's financial market activity, this is it. Sure, sure Virginia. You, I and Irene began doubting the global growth outlook anew midweek last week - that it would be lower than expectations - following disappointing ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2012
... traders weighed positive economic signs in the United States, the world's biggest oil consumer, and supply worries spurred by Iran tensions. NEW YORK - US stocks have finished at new multi-year highs, extending last week's solid gains, after Apple's ...

Recycled scares

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2012
... resulting from the on-going instability in the Middle East - yes, the one in Syria and the nuclear sabre-rattling between Iran and Israel (and the US). And voila! We get a sharp sell-off on everything that has risk attached to it. The Dow dropped by ...