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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAR 2010
... of Representatives passed President Obama's healthcare legislation that will expand healthcare coverage to 32 million Americans who don't have covereage now.

End game II

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2010
The current US engagement with China might make Americans feel good but the consequences could be nasty. Last night's reports provide further evidence that the US economy continues to expand - without putting upward pressure on inflation. Improving. ...

End game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2010
... Neither will most Asian countries. So for good measure, the Obama administration has enlisted troop reinforcements -- all Americans of course or at least US funded institutions. Paul Krugman and Fred Bergsten alleged that China's undervalued currency ...

Wall Street's $22bn bitter pill

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2010
... at $38.6 billion, with the average securities employee cheque was more than $215,269 for the year's work. "For most Americans, these huge bonuses are a bitter pill and hard to comprehend. There's a lot of resentment against the industry over its role ...

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 ...