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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2010
... response to the yen's strength against the US dollar ahead of a US Federal Reserve monetary policy decision and President Barack Obama's State of the Union address. Toyota shares lost 4.26 per cent after the company said it was suspending the sale of ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2010
... the way, while mining companies lost ground on fears of lower demand from China. Bank shares also fell after President Barack Obama's pledge last week to crack down on the US banking sector. London's FTSE 100 index rose 16.54 points, or 0.31 per cent ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2010
... slipped $2.00, or 3.8 per cent, to $51.30. In the US, financial shares pulled the stock market lower on Thursday as President Barack Obama proposed rules that would limit the types of trading banks can do with their money. Rising unemployment claims ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2010
... or 0.93 per cent, to 4,849.6 points. NEW YORK - Financial shares pulled the stock market lower on Thursday as President Barack Obama proposed rules that would limit the types of trading banks can do with their money. The Dow Jones industrial average ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2010
... hopes that a special election in Massachusetts will take away power from Senate Democrats and make it harder for President Barack Obama to make changes to health care. The vote on Tuesday to fill the seat of late Sen Ted Kennedy could shift power in ...

US reform tightens net on big firms

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2009
... Instead, an amendment proposed was the establishment of a council of regulators. In his weekly address last week, President Barack Obama applauded the step forward on financial reform. "Even as we dig our way out of this deep hole, it's important that ...

Yin to market yang

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2009
... against equities getting ahead of themselves become more common in the US and Europe, a sentiment reinforced by US president Barack Obama this week when he pushed for financial reforms to help avoid a repeat of last year's GFC. Not that Power ever subscribed ...

Almost Per-fecta

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2009
... a negative one-fecta further strengthens the case that the US economy is forging forward. "I'll be back!" US President Barack Obama announced his nomination of Chairman Ben for a second four-year term. No surprises here despite the American public's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2009
... stocks made modest gains to new highs for the year, lifted by strong consumer confidence and home prices data and President Barack Obama's nomination of Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke to serve a second term. Trading fluctuated under pressure from ...

Focus on quality: T. Rowe Price

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
... exploiting the market recovery may work well for them but Gensler, whose identical twin brother Gary Gensler was handpicked by Barack Obama as chair of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), said he would rather focus on stocks that will ...