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Three and a half men

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2011
... place blaming the renewed spike in crude. Oil spiked - again! - because of reports that people power threatens to spread to Iran, and Iran is the China of OPEC (the second biggest) when it comes to oil production. But... but... we've been through this ...

Desert storm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
... in excess reserve to fill the gap. The problem is that other major oil-producing nations like Algeria, Bahrain, Kuwait and Iran are also in the thick of protests for regime change. Round and round it goes, where it stops nobody knows. It's therefore ...

Sentiment slips on oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... is the world's 15th largest exporter of the commodity. But there are similar uprisings now taking place in Yemen, Morocco, Iran, Algeria, Jordan and Djibouti - did I miss anyone? And so the D-word has come back in fashion. We're all doomed! That's if ...

Bad news bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2011
... more spare productive capacity than in 2008 and more Iraqi crude is on the way." And from one of the horses mouth himself, Iran's governor to OPEC Mohammad Ali Khatibi. "There are some temporary supply issues, but stocks are high and there is no permanent ...

Trouble not terribly troubling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2011
... to more countries in Africa and the Middle East are becoming reality. But it is the autocrats of Yemen, Jordan, Bahrain, Iran and now Libya that are trembling... not the financial markets. Darn it, another opportunity to pick up bargains gone! And Europe's ...

Egypt not just another pyramid scheme

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2011
... if it becomes more extremist should the Islamic Brotherhood come to power, could reinforce the rhetoric of countries like Iran and add even more uncertainty to world markets. The wild card of Arab-Israeli relations then re-surfaces given its position ...

RI Advice investment team departure

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 19 NOV 2010
Changes are afoot at dealer group RI Advice, after its internal investment research team departs to start their own business with Ray Miles-owned Fortnum Financial Group as a client. The investment research team will create its own portfolio construction ...

Silver lining

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2010
... its foreign exchange reserves and use the proceeds to buy US dollars and gold. Huh? Run that by me again? Is this the same Iran that back in 2007 told the world that the US dollar was a "worthless piece of paper"? The report added that other Gulf States ...

Future Fund behind Azerbaijan on transparency

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2010
... Fund-Global and the New Zealand Superannuation Fund SWFs with scores less than two out of 10 were based in Oman, Nigeria, Kiribati, Iran, Brunei and Algeria.

Of bulls, bears and flatliners

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2009
... earnings would not suffice this quarter. Especially with most valuations having been re-rated -- adjusted higher. Tensions in Iran and China and North Korea's missile launches complete the bear's recipe for - at the very least - a revisit to the lows ...