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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2010
... 0.93 per cent, to 4,849.6 points. NEW YORK - Financial shares pulled the stock market lower on Thursday as President Barack Obama proposed rules that would limit the types of trading banks can do with their money. The Dow Jones industrial average tumbled ...

ADHD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
... high on speculation that Republican Scott Brown would win Massachussetts, giving the GOP the numbers to defeat President Obama's proposed bill overhauling the US healthcare system - reportedly unpopular among Americans. Mr. Brown eventually won the seat ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2010
... that a special election in Massachusetts will take away power from Senate Democrats and make it harder for President Barack Obama to make changes to health care. The vote on Tuesday to fill the seat of late Sen Ted Kennedy could shift power in the Senate ...

Stimulexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2010
... flow of economic data - mixed as they may be - shows that the US is on recovery mode. It is unlikely that the Fed and the Obama administration would do something too drastic that would abort this. Having said that, the Fed might raise interest rates ...

US reform tightens net on big firms

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2009
... an amendment proposed was the establishment of a council of regulators. In his weekly address last week, President Barack Obama applauded the step forward on financial reform. "Even as we dig our way out of this deep hole, it's important that we address ...

We're still in Kansas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2009
... don't think he would want to see the experience of the Great Depression repeated under his watch. Not when as President Obama stated in an interview with CNN, "I think we'll be adding jobs, but you need 150,000 additional jobs each month just to keep ...

Dummy spit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2009
... Street needed a boost, Alan was there. But you went far beyond that when you bowed to the political pressures of the Bush and Obama administrations and turned the Fed into an arm of the Treasury. Under your watch, the Bernanke Put became a bailout for ...

The Art of War

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2009
... interchange currently in progress in China and are taking side bets on who will be the first one to blink. US President Obama wants China to revalue its currency. China's head honcho Hu Jintao complains about America's restrictions on Made in China imports ...

Battle of the bulge

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2009
... assure America's lenders that the money they give Uncle Sam to give to its people would not erode in value. US President Obama is in Asia right now and speculations are that he would pressure China to revalue its undervalued renminbi. Pressure China? ...

Job woes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2009
... businesses to start hiring again. But before this could happen Americans must start spending. To ensure this, President Obama extended unemployment benefits and temporary tax credits for homebuyers as well as seeking new ways to boost employment. Until ...