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Credit hits the fan as Moody's puts US on downgrade watch

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
... funds by August 2. If a decision is not made, it will no longer be able to raise funds to pay its bills. US President Barack Obama has been locked in tense negotiations over the issue, walking out of yesterday's deficit meeting at the White House. Overnight ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2011
... the economy added a paltry 54,000 jobs in May, one-quarter of the February-April pace, intensifying the challenge to the Obama administration to get the economy growing. LONDON - European stock markets closed mostly firmer on Friday as the euro rallied ...

US to avoid default, EM stocks to rise: Janus

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... scare but was unlikely to end in disaster, a portfolio manager for Janus Capital Group said yesterday. US President Barack Obama has warned of impending US economic catastrophe if Congress doesn't agree to raise the US$14.3 trillion debt ceiling, reached ...

May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
... terrorism one bit, it might have even increased the risk. Many countries have been on high alert for retaliatory attacks after Obama confirmed Osama's demise. But back to May and going away. Reuters' monthly asset allocation poll - a "survey of leading ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
... report from the US Federal Reserve confirming the world's biggest economy was on a good recovery track, and President Barack Obama's plan to scythe spending, did little to move investors. Tokyo ended 0.13 per cent higher, by 12.74 points, at 9,653.92 ...

All up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2011
... worry about, "Wage pressures were reported to be mostly contained." Or perhaps the bond market is reacting to President Obama's announcement of his plan to cut US$4 trillion off America's cumulative deficit within 12 years by cutting fiscal spending ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2011
... was 9.4 points, or 0.18 per cent higher, at 4999.6. NEW YORK - US stocks ticked higher Wednesday after President Barack Obama detailed his plans for cutting the deficit and a Federal Reserve report said the economy is improving at a moderate pace. Surges ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
... industrial average. Stocks traded in a tight range throughout the day as investors weighed the impact of President Barack Obama's $US3.73 trillion ($A3.73 trillion) budget proposal for the next fiscal year. Obama's budget includes a five-year freeze ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 FEB 2011
... of trading trading lower on worries that rising tensions in Cairo could turn violent. The upwards move was also helped by Obama administration's launch on Friday of a major shake-up of the US housing market, proposing that state-backed lenders are wound ...

Cashed-up China eyes US investments

... IT group Lenova who said that the $300 billion China sovereign wealth fund discussed the possibilities with US president Obama during the recent state visit by China president Hu Jintao, reported the Asia Wall Street Journal. Lenovo is seen as having ...