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Lookin' for trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2011
My mother once - yes, only once - told me that if you go out looking for trouble, you're gonna find one. That's exactly what happened in the financial markets while we were sleeping. Not content with the troubles plaguing Europa, investors looked to ...

Congressmen agitate for US transaction tax

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
... the tax would raise US$150 billion per year. The European transaction tax from 2014 is expected to raise half that. Republican control of Congress means the Bill has no chance of passing but William Katz, a leading analyst from Citi, said the presence ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
US stocks plunged on Friday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average sliding more than 300 points, as global stock markets were stung by fresh anxiety in the eurozone over Greece's bailout. The Dow fell 303.68 points (2.69 per cent) to close at 10,992.13. ...

Obama punts on US$300bn jobs package

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2011
... of them to cross the floor won't be easy when they have the fiscally contractionary and vocal Tea Party wing of the Republican party watching their every move. At least the markets reacted reasonably to the news with 10 year yields on US Treasury bonds ...

Fed policy options galore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
... website on 7 January 2009. And on the 23 December 2010 BusinessWeek ran the headline, "Bernanke Options Seen Curbed Amid Republican Scrutiny". Recall how anxious you and your dog became when you read these headlines back then. It was the end of the world ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2011
... European trade after solid gains in Asia on President Barack Obama's announcement that he had reached an accord with his Republican rivals on raising the debt ceiling and spending cuts. News that US manufacturing activity was flat in July then undercut ...

Agreement reached on debt ceiling

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
... narrowly averting what might have become a global economic disaster. US President Barack Obama announced that Democrat and Republican Party leaders in both the House of Representatives and the Senate have backed the deal in exchange for more than US$1 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
... Forum starts in Kalgoorly. On Friday, Australian shares hit a near 11-month low before negotiations in the US after Republican leaders in the US House of Representatives postponed a vote on legislation to avert the threatened August 2 debt default. The ...

Complicating the simple

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2011
... was unclear whether the deficit reduction bill presented by House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner, the top Republican in Congress, would overcome objections from conservative rebels in his own party and pass the Republican-controlled House." ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
... also dragging the market down. On Wall Street on Tuesday, stocks fell as the White House said it would object to a Republican plan in the House of Representatives that calls for raising the US debt limit by $US1 trillion ($A925 billion). In local trade ...