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Moral hazard on Main Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
Yes we can! And again, Yes we can! In trying to make this slogan come true, US President Barack Obama has taken the concept of moral hazard from Wall Street to Main Street. Just one day after he signed his autograph on a piece of paper turning the US$787 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
... Ordinaries dropped 45.3 points, or 1.33 per cent, to 3,366.9. NEW YORK - Stocks declined on Wall Street on Wednesday as President Barack Obama released details of his $75 billion mortgage relief plan and investors remained uncertain about the prospects ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
... New York Federal Reserve's regional manufacturing index showed a much deeper contraction in activity than expected. President Barack Obama is set to sign the $US787 billion ($A1.21 trillion) stimulus package into law on Tuesday. He will also be outlining ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
... Ordinaries index dropped 35.4 points, or 1.01 per cent, to 3,461.3. NEW YORK - US markets have been closed overnight for the President's Day public holiday. On Friday, stocks ended lower, pushing the Dow Jones industrial average to its lowest close since ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2009
... leaving it with a weekly decline of 5.2 per cent. The gears are moving in Washington. On Friday, the White House said President Obama will outline steps to stem home foreclosures next Wednesday, and the House passed a $US787 billion economic stimulus ...

The biggest loser

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2009
... all-time low of 1 per cent. The ECB fears falling into a liquidity trap where monetary policy becomes impotent. ECB President Jean Claude Trichet explained that the central bank's last rate reduction in January had already accounted for further slowing ...

Myer shops for new IT suite

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2009
... sophisticated investors require diversification and the highest levels of service and reporting", said Tee Arasoo, Vice President, SS&C Technologies, Inc. "MFO's requirements for diverse instrument coverage coupled with localised Australian tax and accounting ...

Africa wants slice of bail-out

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2009
... design programs to help their economies weather the financial crisis," said Obiageli Ezekwesili, the World Bank's vice-president for the Africa Region at a video press conference from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Ezekwesili said it was important for wealthier ...

Statewide appoints chair

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2009
... Superannuation Trust director. Oxlad is a senior manager in the Department for Transport, Energy and Infrastructure, president of the Public Service Association and a member of the SA Unions.

No meat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2009
... Street's benchmark equity indices down almost 5 per cent overnight. Not even reports that the US Senate has approved President Obama's US$838 billion economic stimulus package proved enough to contain investors' angst. The Financial Stability Program ...