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The Ides of March

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
... of rumours of nationalisation. Announcement of more government bail-outs and this time, in the US, accompanied by US President Obama's pledge to correct the budget deficit to soothe investors worried about an exit plan. By all indications, the worst ...

GFC in a fortnight

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2009
... will be spent and how the ballooning budget deficit will ultimately be repaid. Here, the exit strategy presented by US President Barack Obama is worth watching as it would serve as a template for other government when it comes time to pay their dues. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2009
... defendants make final submissions in a case brought by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). The new president of Chinese aluminium producer Chinalco, Xiong Weiping, will hold a media briefing to discuss the company's proposed ...

Subsidise financial advice: Shiller

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2009
... retail products such as GDP-linked bonds that hedge against the big risks facing investors. Referring to how former US President Theodore Roosevelt rescued Americans from the Great Depression, Shiller said the government's bail-out package is not enough. ...

Invest in debt, but carefully

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2009
... ridiculously cheap. Investors are asking what happened, why and what are the opportunities," said Kevin J Perry, vice president of Loomis Sayles, during a visit to Australia this week. Finding these opportunities is not as simple as it seems, however. ...

Baracking for the US

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2009
... this, we will rebuild, we will recover, and the United States of America will emerge stronger than before." While US President Barack Obama's words garnered applause and a standing ovation from both Democrats and the Republicans in the US Congress, Wall ...

Riccardian equivalence redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2009
US President Barack Obama is bringing David Riccardo back from the dead. When the US unveiled its first bailout acronym - TARP -- for the financial sector TARP - last year, I wrote about a theory taught us budding economists called the 'Riccardian equivalence.' ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2009
... cool some anxiety about the economy. With its dose of positive news Tuesday, the market grew more upbeat ahead of a President Barack Obama's inaugural State of the Union address to Congress. Beaten-down financial shares gained as investors hoped for ...

Nationalisation - that ugly word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
... systems have not convinced equity markets that the 'beginning of the end' of the global financial crisis is nigh. US President Barack Obama declared these words right after he signed the US$787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) last ...

Thumbs down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2009
Fizzler. This is the equity market's verdict on US President Barack Obama's latest salvo on preserving the 'American Dream'. If the Dow's overnight fall to a six-year low is anything to go by, yesterday's unveiling of the US$275 billion Homeowner Affordability ...