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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2010
... months. A flood of bad news, including rising debt levels in European nations and an unexpected jump in the number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits, had investors pulling money out of assets such as stocks and commodities that are looking ...

Greek tragedy overwhelms Obama

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
... only in my head for I can't yell it out loud or my kids would think I've really lost it. Obama put into words what most Americans felt. "Some (Americans) are frustrated; some are angry. They don't understand why it seems like bad behaviour on Wall Street ...

Wall Street v Main Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2010
... are less stringent on their commercial and investment operations? Or in China? Wall Street might become just a Wall. Americans blame the Fed and its Chairman. So what do politicians do? Some of the announced that they would vote against the re-confirmation ...

ADHD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
... numbers to defeat President Obama's proposed bill overhauling the US healthcare system - reportedly unpopular among Americans. Mr. Brown eventually won the seat held by the late Democratic Senator Edward M. Kennedy for almost half a century. "And the ...

US reform tightens net on big firms

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2009
... mess in the first place," said President Obama. "Some of it was the result of an era of easy credit, when millions of Americans borrowed beyond their means, bought homes they couldn't afford, and assumed that housing prices would always rise and the ...

Dummy spit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2009
... spending and hand out cheap money to your masters on Wall Street, which they use to rake in record profits while ordinary Americans and small businesses can't even get loans for their everyday needs. Now, I want to read you a quote: "I believe that the ...

Small thanks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2009
... Perhaps. Perhaps. Perhaps. But it's always the case that the simplest explanation is likely to be true. And this is that Americans are busily stuffing turkeys for Thanksgiving dinner - to give thanks for the bountiful harvest they have made so far this ...

Thanks for now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2009
... Thanksgiving Day begins. And the Fed would have it no other way. But first let's take a look at the hard data. Give thanks for Americans are again buying houses. US existing home sales jumped by 10.1 per cent in October and are now 23.5 per cent higher ...

Ganging up on greenback

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2009
... cent in the third quarter, their profits fell by 27 per cent. But what's the US to do when it has around 12 million Americans it needs to find a job for? Last night's news provide a clue, which all comes back to China. US and Chinese regulators are reportedly ...

Battle of the bulge

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2009
... have his cake and eat it too! By sending Uncle Benny out yelling "free money" to everyone in the market place, he wants Americans to use this free money to spend, spend, spend and thereby underpin hometown growth. And then he goes and sends Uncle Timmy ...