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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
The Australian stock market is expected to open higher after US shares gained on optimism that President-elect Barack Obama's plan for a huge infrastructure spending package will help boost the US economy. Resource stocks may also gain after commodity ...

All I want for Christmas is a job

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
... replenish run-down and obsolete capital stocks and infrastructure in the economy - instead of financing wars. President-elect Barack Obama vowed to make the 'single largest new investment' in roads, bridges and public buildings since the Eisenhower Administration ...

Wiki me happy

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2008
... engage their Gen Y staff and retain their customers. The power of social networking came to the fore after President-elect Barack Obama won the US elections, thanks partly to his foresight about winning voters who are "wired" to the web. These voters ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
... ten per cent or more the week before. The market briefly came off its highest levels of the session after president-elect Barack Obama reiterated at a news conference that there is a great deal of hard work to be done to restore the economy to health. ...

Rainy days

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2008
... the doldrums in spite of the hopeful promise that came about with the changing of the guards at the White House. Senator Barack Obama's triumphant victory in the US Presidential election was welcomed with jubilation the world over because it provided ...

Humpty Dumpty Syndrome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2008
And so it came to pass. The election of Barack Obama to the highest post in the biggest and most powerful economy of the world would forever be etched into the annals of history - not only in America, but also throughout the entire planet. It is just ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2008
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open lower today after Wall Street fell on concern that President-elect Barack Obama will struggle to reverse the slowing economy. At 0833 AEDT, the December Share Price Index futures contract on the Sydney ...