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Pres Obama proposes sweeping regulatory reforms

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2009
... expand to monitoring the whole financial system rather than just banking and monetary policy, reports the Asian Wall Street Journal. In the Council's sights will be financial conglomerates whose "combination of size, leverage, and interconnectedness ...

China's SWF on hiring spree

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2009
... that CIC is looking to fill 29 positions. These opportunities were also posted in the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal. CIC was established on September 29th 2007 with the issuance of special bonds worth RMB 1.55 trillion by China's Ministry of ...

Sick of swines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2009
... moved, or rather did not move, Wall Street last night are opposing signals for the future. The negative. The Wall Street Journal reported that the US government's stress test would show that Bank of America and Citigroup failed - they will both need ...

Doors open for new ETFs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
... confirming media reports that it is scouting the market for buyers of iShares. London-based newspapers and the Wall Street Journal reported that the move was designed to shore up Barclays' balance sheet and avoid the part-nationalisation path taken by ...

Spring springs on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2009
... Bernanke say that it is possible that the US unemployment rate could go up to 10 per cent. They did not see the Wall Street Journal warning that credit cards would be the next to be crunched. They did not see reports that China recorded is now in deflation ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2009
... without having to pour more taxpayer money into them. Meanwhile, technology stocks are also falling after The Wall Street Journal reported that Yahoo Inc's new chief executive is planning a companywide reorganisation. Preliminary closing figures show ...

Mr. Scrooge's Ghosts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2008
... shoppers spent 7.2 per cent more on average compared with last year, most were hunting for bargain sales. The Wall Street Journal informed its readers that total purchases over the internet have fallen by 4 per cent from a year ago, with gift cards down ...

Innovators, imitators and idiots

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2008
... flow, setting them up for big falls in 2009. The frenzy, reported by Barron's, a newsletter published by the Wall Street Journal, was because junior endowment funds were rushing to lift their timber allocations from 9 to 11 per cent. For current investors ...

Bail-out might breach US constitution

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2008
... Cox told the Banking committee there is a "regulatory hole that must be immediately addressed," reported the Wall Street Journal.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2008
... investors back into riskier assets such as equities. After the close, S&P 500 index futures jumped after the Wall Street Journal reported Bank of America Corp plans to invest $2 billion in preferred stock issued by mortgage lender Countrywide Financial ...