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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013
... tacked on 31.13 (0.83 per cent) to reach 3,791.87. Investor anxiety eased on Thursday after Republican leaders offered President Barack Obama a short term extension of the US government's borrowing authority so as to stave off a possible debt default. ...

Last minute deal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 OCT 2013
... the 15th of January and raise the debt ceiling until 7th of February. These mean that the shutdown ends tomorrow when President Obama signs the deal into law and...we get treated to the same Washington theatrics starting in the middle of January next ...

Time to be fearful?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2013
... True to form...and recent history, it looks like the political powers in Washington will again take it to the limit. US President Obama must be wishing he was Chinese Premier Li Kequiang instead where he can dictate outcomes, any outcome...or heads will ...

IFM makes NY based appointment

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 14 OCT 2013

Washington watching Wall Street watch Washington

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 OCT 2013

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013
... on signs in the US of progress in negotiations to raise the country's debt ceiling. Republicans have held talks with President Barack Obama, enough to send global markets higher, even though the talks are yet to result in a clear outcome. All sectors ...

Obama says no deal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013
... hand when House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner offered to extend the US borrowing authority for six weeks. President Barack Obama is scheduled to meet with Republican leaders on Thursday. The Boehner proposal would not end the government shutdown. ...

There is fear in the market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 OCT 2013

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 OCT 2013
... tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index lost 17.05 points, or (0.46 per cent, to 3,677.78. Markets took in stride comments by President Barack Obama's nominee to lead the Federal Reserve, Fed veteran Janet Yellen, who said she would keep policy focused on boosting ...