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BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2011
"Do I feel lucky?" Well do ya, punk?" -Dirty Harry Certainly that punk Queen Qaddafi is not feeling lucky. So is Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman (that other oil producer) -- the Jasmine Revolutionaries are now marching in his Kingdom. Their subjects ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
... certainly a key driver as far as things go, there were rumours out recently that he had been shot," he said. "The US government has come out and said there is no reason to believe that he is dead, but it has pushed the Aussie and the euro up a little ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2011
... Toyota stood out, with the car giant's shares surging after it revised its full-year earnings outlook upwards, the US government found no fault with electronic systems blamed for acceleration problems, and reports emerged of a planned joint venture in ...

Cashed-up China eyes US investments

... political attitudes following its 2005 purchase of computer giant IBM. China already holds an estimated $800 billion in US government debt and any new infrastructure investment, which would be on top of a $1.6 billion placement in March, would be a sign ...

One voice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2011
ust as recent indicators point to a brightening outlook for the US economy, the haze appears to also be slowly dissipating in Europe. "Movin' on up, movin' on up. Movin' on up, movin on up." This tune by M People played in my head as I read Bloomberg's ...

Adviser Toolbox free for planners

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2010
New planning website, Adviser Toolbox, taps imminent regulatory reforms to appeal to planners. The group, owned by boutique financial planning business Iplanner, was created by advisers, paraplanners and software technicians as an efficient online financial ...

60 Minutes deception

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 DEC 2010
... buy the Treasury bonds to lower interest to stimulate the economy for free? Will any financial institution or the US government itself sell anything gratis? By buying Treasuries the Fed is trying to raise the amount of bank reserves, hoping that those ...

A QEasy road ahead for investors

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2010
... current projections the US will be facing its own sovereign crisis, even though it is many, many years away." "The US government has run only three surpluses over the past 100 years (1956, 1999 and 2000) and 97 deficits. Hence there is a crisis here ...

US insider trading probe rocks hedge fund community

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
The US government is turning the screws on the investment community and it could affect firms with significant presences in Australia. Over the past 48 hours, as part of a wide-ranging insider trading probe, the FBI has raided a number of hedge funds ...

AIA signs record number of corporate funds

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2010
... June last year, replacing the 'AIG' brand which made global headlines after it signed a bail-out program with the US government during the GFC.