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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
... market looks set to open lower following sharp falls on Wall Street on fresh worries about a Greek debt default as US President Barack Obama called on Greece to enact reforms. At 0815 AEST on Monday, the June share price index futures contract was down ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street moved mainly slightly higher following US President Barack Obama's proposed $US4.0 trillion budget loaded with spending and tax reforms. At 0849 AEDT on Tuesday, the March share price ...

Shanghai-HK Connect connects China to the world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2014
... news is good news syndrome like Wall Street had been. Or is it the connect between Chinese president Xi Jinping and US president Barrack Obama at the APEC summit or his handshake connect with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe? Ahh yes, Virginia, you ...

Recycling the same old, same old

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
... to the 2,000 milestone - and if you believe Putin's gone an inch away from the Ukrainian border. To quote former US President George W Bush again, "... fool me once, shame on, shame on you. Fool me, you can't get fooled again" because "I know the human ...

Putin pontificates peace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014
... Putin later admitted that Russian military units had been involved." I'll leave the last words to Junior, former US President George Bush Jr: "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm ...

Only the dead have seen the end of war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
... using the guise of a humanitarian mission, could intervene militarily in Ukraine". Now everybody's onto it - even US President BO (not Benjamin Ong, ehem). Barack Obama warned Vladimir Putin not to use "humanitarian aid" as cover to send in Russian troops ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
... Shanghai slipped 0.14 per cent, or 3.06 points, to 2,221.59 as investors locked in profits following recent gains. US President Barack Obama welcomed the nomination of a new Iraqi prime minister to replace controversial leader Nuri al-Maliki and voiced ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
... The euro climbed to $1.3409 from $1.3363 late in New York on Thursday. HONG KONG - Asian stocks were mixed, after US President Barack Obama said he had authorised air strikes against Sunni extremist militants in Iraq as concerns grew about the security ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... or 0.79 per cent, to 4,297.63. Jihadists pushed toward Baghdad on Thursday after capturing a town to the north, as US President Barack Obama said his national security team "is looking at all the options". With the militants approaching the capital ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014
... Russia intensifies. At 0645 AEDT on Friday, the March share price index futures contract was down 58 points at 5,355. US President Barack Obama on Thursday said that if Russia continued an aggressive path in Ukraine, the US and other countries would ...