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Merry Christmas retailers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2009
... gentlemen. Yesterday's Australian retail sales figures have swung the pendulum in favour of Kevin 07 and his fiscal stimulus package. The Federal Opposition has been making noises ever since the A$42 billion was first announced. It threatened to block ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2009
... senior client advisor Bill Bishop said the market had lost sight of the government's announcement of a $42 billion stimulus package on Tuesday. "Broadly speaking, the market is gently sliding and I think the market is waiting to see how well the stimulous ...

Damned if you do

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2009
... Life for all of us Australians had been paradise... until now. Yesterday's announcement of a $42 billion fiscal stimulus package has been criticized as either 'not targeted enough' or 'does not offer enough bang for the buck' or 'not large enough' or ...

More bombshells before the recovery

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
... prices of local shares, property and commodities will fall further in the coming months before the government's stimulus package kicks in and takes the market out of the doldrums, said the panelists of an industry briefing held this morning. Speaking ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
... action by US President Obama to nurse the economy back to health after the House of Representatives approved a stimulus package. The Tokyo Stock Exchange's benchmark Nikkei index rose 1.79 per cent or 144.95 points to 8,251.24. HONG KONG - Hong Kong ...

Good Bank Bad Bank

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2009
... long vanished. This is perhaps why US equities took as positive rumours that President Barack Obama's latest stimulus package could include the creation of a bad bank - an 'Aggregator Bank' -- that will buy and stock illiquid and toxic assets of financial ...

Gung Hay Fat Choy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2009
... growth back up - and fast. Interest rates have come down and are coming down. Beijing has announced a fiscal stimulus package worth 4 trillion yuan (US$585 billion). But most of all, the national government made an offer they can't refuse (or its off ...

Bad tidings we bring

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2009
... benchmark rate by 50 basis points to 8.75 per cent. This followed the Indonesian government's US$6.6 billion stimulus package. And what about the mother of all these problems? The US economy remains in dire straits as formally acknowledged by President-elect ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2008
... government promise to protect banking giant Citigroup and the release of a STG20 billion ($A47.05 billion) economic stimulus package in Britain. At 0800 AEDT, the December Share Price Index futures contract on the Sydney Futures Exchange was up 132 points ...

Sisyphian challenge

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2008
... boulder is getting heavier prompted the Chinese government to act and announced a 4 trillion yuan (US$586 billion) stimulus package to boost domestic demand. In a testament to the Chinese government's financial and economic maturity, the package is well-targeted ...