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Sick of swines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2009
... Perhaps the swines are just taking advantage of cheaper plane tickets and accommodations to see how the world is like outside Mexico. Jesting aside, we should be concerned but not alarmed - as the headlines would want us to be. Reports of infection have ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2009
... cautious as world health officials raised their alert level and the death toll from swine flu reached more than 150 in Mexico. Adding to investor worries was a media report that the Federal Reserve has advised Citigroup and Bank of America that they ...

Too much ado about pig flu

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2009
... the economy no matter how much money you throw at them. I don't really know how news of 150 swine flue related deaths in Mexico and some 40-odd confirmed cases in the US, 6 in Canada, a few in New Zealand and in Spain could morphed into warnings of global ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2009
... cents to $33.48, as it said production has commenced from the 100,000 barrels per day Shenzi oil project in the Gulf of Mexico. Rio Tinto was down 58 cents to $53.35. "The finance sector's a bit mixed too," Mr Russell said. "I think they're following ...

Mexican super funds shut doors

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
Pension funds in Mexico are snubbing international investments this year as they invest all of their fund inflows into the local market to boost the country's economy. According to Asociacion Mexicana de Administradoras de Fondos, an organisation that ...

Sovereign wealth funds to buy more equities

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2009
... South America as regions that provide the "most attractive" for a combination of qualitative and quantitative reasons. Mexico and Brazil topped the list as the two most attractive countries for investment opportunities.

October mourn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2008
... these, the Fed announced a US$30 billion lending facility to the central banks of South Korea and Singapore and Brazil and Mexico. Wait there's more. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) also extended a helping hand, announcing its plans to lend money ...

Oil on slippery slope?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2008
... on reports of lower inventories and the threat of further disruptions to supply as Hurricane Ike approaches the Gulf of Mexico. Only a few months ago, just a hint of a lower-than-expected fall in crude oil inventories or an approaching hurricane sent ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2008
... disappointing earnings report from computer giant Dell weighed on the markets and Hurricane Gustav churned towards the Gulf of Mexico. Low volume may have intensified the losses with trade thin ahead of a three-day Labor Day holiday in the United States ...

More worries for US financials

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2008
... below US$113 a barrel last night following reports that Tropical Storm Fay will miss large oil refineries in the Gulf of Mexico. The beginning of a Russian pullout from Georgia and comments by the Turkish energy minister that a key pipeline could resume ...