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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014
... LONDON - Europe's main stock markets ended sharply lower as the escalating military crisis in Ukraine spooked investors. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev warned Ukraine was on the verge of civil war as Kiev launched a military operation against ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2014
The Australian market looks set to open lower after falls on Wall Street as Eastern Europe tensions escalate with Russian troops seizing Ukrainian ships and military installations in Crimea. At 0645 AEDT on Tuesday, the June share price index futures ...

The scares that weren't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
... watching... and eyeballing Putin. President Obama has just announced that the US is expanding the list of "pillow" sanctioned Russian official - including a Russian bank - and threatened more but... "We do not need to trigger an actual war with Russia ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
The sharemarket is flat in early trade as investors ignore positive offshore leads. US stocks moved higher as Russian President Vladimir Putin's comments that he had no designs on a larger break-up of Ukraine eased investor tensions. But there was no ...

Calm over Crimea and US houses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
... Street. Certainly, markets are happy that the tension hasn't escalated beyond what the US and Europe calls "sanctions" and Russian President Putin's seeming backdown when he told Parliament that his adventure stops with Crimea. "We don't want to split ...

China's art of currency war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2014
... sanctions? Putin must be LOL-in' after hearing the news that Europe has imposed "sanctions" by freezing the assets of 21 Russian and Crimean officials and imposing travel bans on them. The US imposed the same "sanctions" on 11 - seven Russians and four ...

Pickle wrapped in a bind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2014
... international community "will not recognize the results of a poll administered under threats of violence and intimidation from a Russian military intervention" following the vote. Bloomberg reports that, "U.K. Foreign Secretary William Hague called the ...

This means war (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014
... capable of carrying out his threat. But Vlamidir? While they both despise the West, there is no doubt in my mind that Russian President Vladimir Putin is saner and more calculating than North Korea's Kim. Putin better prove me right this time, else I'll ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2014
... lows yesterday unnerved markets," said Chris Beauchamp, an analyst at trading firm IG. "Throw in some headlines about Russian movements in Crimea, and you have the recipe for a continuing selloff," he added. Concern over Russia-Ukraine tension continues ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2014
... Japan said its economy grew more slowly in the fourth quarter, 0.2 per cent, than the previously reported 0.3 per cent. Russian gas giant Gazprom's threat to cut off supplies to Ukraine, which is the major transit country for the rest of Europe, also ...