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Rwanda calls for $770m fund injection

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2009
... returns are massive since the demand of materials such as tiles, glass, cement and others is very high," she explained. The Republic of Rwanda, a small landlocked country in east-central Africa, is home to over 10 million people who mostly engage in ...

Main Street versus Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2009
Wall Street jumped again overnight but Main Street's mood has turned from nervous insouciance to outright outrage. Hip, hip, hurray! Wall Street greeted St. Patrick's Day with a 3.2 per cent rally in the S&P 500, a 2.5 per cent jump in the Dow and the ...

Baracking for the US

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2009
"While our economy may be weakened and our confidence shaken, though we are living through difficult and uncertain times, tonight I want every American to know this, we will rebuild, we will recover, and the United States of America will emerge stronger ...

China could own America

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2009
... interconnection. We are truly going to rise or fall together." Why doesn't she just sell US Government common stocks to the People's Republic of China?

Transcending politics

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2009
Waiting...waiting. Americans and Australians are both in a holding pattern waiting for the passage of their respective government's latest fiscal dole-outs. Wall Street sat on the fence overnight as investors await the approval of US President Barack ...

Bad tidings we bring

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2009
... of 2.5 per cent early in 2009 - the fifth in three months - in its bid to avert a recession. The Central Bank of the Republic of China (Taiwan) unexpectedly cut its key interest rate for the sixth time to 1.5 per cent and urged banks to increase corporate ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
The Australian sharemarket was lower at noon amid thin trading as investors sit on the sidelines until the release of key US economic data tonight. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index fell 71.7 points, or 1.98 per cent, to 3,526.8, while the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
The Australian stock market is expected to open lower after shares in the US slumped on a big rise in unemployment claims and a surprising jump in the trade deficit. Resource stocks may gain after commodity prices advanced. At 0830 AEDT on the Sydney ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2008
The Australian stock market is expected to open higher after commodity prices, including gold, oil and copper, gained overnight. At 0816 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December Share Price Index futures contract was up 41 points at 3,662. ...

Three rich beggars

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2008
'There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying into Washington D.C. and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands.' This was US Democratic representative Gary Ackerman's comments to the CEO's of the big three US carmakers ...