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US Senate passes bail-out 74 to 25

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2008
... the bill in the Senate than in Congress. Provided there were no conflicting amendments in the separate Houses, President GW Bush will expedite passage of the bill for its immediate enactment as soon as it passes Congress. However, there are emerging ...

Head or tails?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2008
... 2008.' Equities rallied, albeit not enough to recover all of the previous day's massive losses - after US President George Bush and congressional leaders indicated that negotiations on the US$700 billion rescue package will continue. President Bush was ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2008
... Australia Bank picked up 22 cents, or 0.85 per cent, to $26.02. On Friday in the US, financial markets remained on edge after the Bush administration's proposal for a $US700 billion banking bailout ran into opposition from Republican and Democrat congressmen ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2008
... Ordinaries lost 26.17 points, or 0.52 per cent to 4,934.63. NEW YORK - Financial markets remained on edge on Friday after the Bush administration's proposal for a $US700 billion banking bailout ran into opposition from Republican and Democrat congressmen ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2008
... down 31 points at 5020, on a volume of 11,941 contracts. CMC Markets senior dealer, Matthew Lewis, said US President George Bush's television address urging Congress to approve the Government's proposed rescue plan for the financial industry had buoyed ...

Greater fool with no shorts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2008
... the claws off the credit squeeze that, last week, threatened to strangle the US financial system to death. The George W. Bush administration proposed to build a dumpster - worth US700 billion - hopefully big enough to contain all of the toxic debts that ...

India to ban food futures

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2008
... move illustrates how seriously the now much reported global food shortage is being viewed. Last Friday US president George W Bush called on Congress to give an extra $800 million to the UN World Food Program to help them buy much needed food stocks to ...

US property still has upside

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2008
... but as the economy regains traction moving into 2009, Herzbrun said office demand should re-accelerate. The impact of the Bush fiscal stimulus should only add to this, as will the resolution of the 2008 electoral cycle. Despite the slowdown, quality ...

So much to do, so little time

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2008
... underestimate the enormous challenge in turning their economy around. In yesterday's State of the Union address, President Bush said their recurrent fiscal budget is such a huge blackhole that it will take another four years for it even to come into ...

Oil rich city pours $17.1b in SRI

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2008
... well as our own growth and development continues." During the World Future Energy Summit, Masdar presented President George Bush with its six-pronged plan to build Masdar City, the world's first zero carbon, zero waste city. The Masdar Initiative is ...