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Instos lobby for Main Street

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2010
... restore confidence and integrity in the markets by backing laws that are in the best interests of business, investors and taxpayers - commenting that "it's about Main Street, not just Wall Street." In a press statement, Joe Dear, Council of Institutional ...

Happy birthday bull

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
... Jackson's 'Thriller', or Michael Jackson himself. Bloomberg reported that, in its attempt to secure more money from the US taxpayers (its fourth), AIG presented to the US government that a world without AIG would cause European banks needing to raise ...

Prudential back in town

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2010
... initial public offering, we decided that a sale to Prudential enables AIG to realise value on a faster track to repay U.S. taxpayers," said Bob Benmosche, AIG president, in a statement. But the decision to sell AIA instead of an IPO raises questions ...

NZ Super appoints Elementum Advisors

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2010
... Fund, which commenced investing at the end of September 2003, is designed to reduce the tax burden on future New Zealand taxpayers of the cost of New Zealand superannuation. An ageing population means the cost of providing New Zealand superannuation ...

Wall Street v Main Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2010
... from its previous forecast of 3.1 per cent. So what has changed? What's changed is the tenor of US politics. American taxpayers had every right to be angry at their banks and financial institutions for creating the mess they find themselves in and angrier ...

Now that's challenging

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2010
... Massachusetts - considered a very safe Democrat stronghold - might have become too loud for US President Obama not to hear. US taxpayers are angry. Furious that their taxes went into propping up banks and financial institutions who gave their employees ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2009
... came just days after Bank of America Corp repaid the entire $US45 billion ($A49.4 billion) in bailout money it owed US taxpayers. The Dow Jones industrial average closed up 29.55 points, or 0.28 per cent at 10,501.05, while the S&P500 index advanced ...

12 Apostles

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2009

Damned either way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2009

Dummy spit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2009
... declined. I can only think of two possible reasons you would not make then-New York Fed President Geithner try to save the taxpayers some money by seriously negotiating or at least take up U.B.S. on their offer of a haircut. Sadly, those two reasons ...