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Three and a half men

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2011
... America's ABC News. "No demonstrations at all in the streets! No, no one against us. Against me for what? Because I am not President. They love me, all my people with me, they love me all. They will die to protect me, my people." If half of the leaders ...

Buy a toaster

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2011
... of that in America." He's not wrong there. And gauging from last night's Fedspeak, it shall remain so. New York Fed President William Dudley noted that while America's economy has "improved considerably... we are still very far away from achieving our ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
... Aussie dollar goes." Mr Sinton said the focus on the market will continue to be on the unrest in Libya and whether Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi will last the weekend. "That is certainly a key driver as far as things go, there were rumours out recently ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... cents. Since 1700 AEDT, the Australian dollar traded between 99.82 cents and 100.60 cents. Overnight, opponents of Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi took firm control of the oil-producing coastal region in the east of the country. This came after the ...

Bad news bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2011
ave the grizzlies driven the dip buyers away? Americans came back from their President's Day holiday and saw that nervy days are back again. The S&P 500 index dropped by 2.1 per cent overnight - its biggest in 6 months - and the VIX or "fear index" ...

Bloomberg opens doors to Islamic finance

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 22 FEB 2011
... succeed globally and enhance international presence for Islamic products and services," said Dato' Mohd Shah Abdul Wahid, president, AIBIM. This index, designed to increase transparency and provide better performance measuring tools, comes in the same ...

1989 redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 FEB 2011
... popular revolt in Eastern Europe. There was also much uncertainty back then just as today, especially when Romanian President Ceausescu ordered his soldiers to shoot protesters - just as Kadhafi is doing right at this very moment. No one's really sure ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 FEB 2011
... points, or 0.7 per cent, at 4,990.9 points. NEW YORK - Securities markets were closed on Wall Street overnight for the President's Day public holiday. LONDON - European equities and the euro fell on Monday, as violent unrest in Libya was only partially ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2011
The Australian market has received mixed to positive leads from offshore trading over the weekend. Wall Street indices were higher, but oil and copper were lower. Precious metals were higher. On the ASX 24 at 0712 AEDT, the March share price index futures ...

Asian funds invest more in Taiwan

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 18 FEB 2011
... infrastructure sectors tipped to be particularly lucrative. "We like the Taiwan story. It has been a tough few years with a president that was trying to distance itself from China, politically. The economy suffered and people and companies were moving ...