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US insurer postpones IPO

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2010
... businesses, Liberty Mutual Agency Corporation, indefinitely. In a statement to the press the company said "the stalled economic recovery, volatile stock market and undervalued property and casualty insurance stock prices create an unfavorable environment ...

Wonderfully wrong September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2010
... statement, it reiterated that, it "is prepared to provide additional accommodation if needed to support the economic recovery." That's why Wall Street is happy. And so they should be. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, the US stock market ...

One voice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 SEP 2010
... mouths are. This tells me that both the stock and bond markets are singing in one voice -- the same tune of continued recovery.

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2010
... dampened after a downbeat economic outlook from the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), which warned on Tuesday that the recovery had slowed. The US Federal Reserve avoided pulling the trigger on fresh stimulus spending at a top-level policy meeting ...

Competing to devalue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2010
... outlook and financial developments and is prepared to provide additional accommodation if needed to support the economic recovery and to return inflation, over time, to levels consistent with its mandate." 21 September 2010. "The Committee will continue ...

Much ado over more of the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
... cent - because "Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in August indicates that the pace of recovery in output and employment has slowed in recent months. Household spending is increasing gradually, but remains constrained by ...

Watching the A$ watch the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 SEP 2010
... ease its quants, certainly the Fed's main objective is to provide more oomph to the American economy and/or make the recovery more durable. This is good news. But wait! Not so fast! More quantitative easing could also mean the Fed is panicking; the economy ...

A "race to the bottom" in currencies

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2010
... story," Boubouris said, because "durable domestic demand in China is the essential pre-condition for a sustained global recovery."

Dob in a fraud: CalPERS

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2010
... bring together all aspects of risk management, including internal compliance operations, privacy and security, disaster recovery and business continuity programs," said Anne Stausboll, chief executive of CalPERS. Other improvements at the fund include ...

Fortune cookie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2010
... Australia's good fortune. While authorities in the US, Japan and Europe continue to worry over how to make the fledgling recovery in their domestic economies stick, Australia's growth has returned to its long-term potential of between 3.25 per cent and ...