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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2009
... fallen. "The Olivier job index is weaker as well," Mr Sebastian said. "Most US investors are pinning hopes on President Obama's stimulus plan and factoring out the employment numbers, and we're doing the same here." Mr Sebastian said the resources sector ...

Bad news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2009
... according to Bloomberg, the ugly US payrolls number in January 'would force Congress to reach a compromise on President Barack Obama's economic stimulus package'. The employment report showed that 598,000 more jobs were lost last month - the biggest ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
... 2.15 per cent to 3,009.75. TOKYO - Japanese shares gained on Thursday as investors hoped for bold action by US President Obama to nurse the economy back to health after the House of Representatives approved a stimulus package. The Tokyo Stock Exchange's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2009
... 42.8 points, or 1.26 per cent, to 3,435.1. NEW YORK - Financial stocks have led Wall Street higher on investor hopes the Obama administration will create banks to absorb the bad assets weighing down the financial system. In mid-afternoon trading, the ...

Good Bank Bad Bank

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2009
... market value as buyers have long vanished. This is perhaps why US equities took as positive rumours that President Barack Obama's latest stimulus package could include the creation of a bad bank - an 'Aggregator Bank' -- that will buy and stock illiquid ...

Local super funds welcome Obama admin move

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2009
... super fund assets comments on the likely impact of stricter governance of the US finance sector, following reports that the Obama administration will soon impose tighter rules on credit default swaps, credit ratings agencies and executive pay. The Australian ...

Oil up, equities down: Feng Shui Index

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2009
Global equity markets will remain volatile, the cost of oil will rise and US President Barack Obama's popularity will wane are just a few predictions from this year's CLSA Feng Shui Index. Asian investment and brokerage group CLSA's Feng Shui Index ...

Sucked in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2009
... US economic and financial situation continues to burn while the politicians fiddle. In spite of the goodwill that Barack Obama took with him to the Oval office and the fact that he has already etched a 'game plan' to tackle the global financial mess ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2009
... index closed at 3283.6. NEW YORK - US stocks eked out small gains Monday in choppy trade as investors eyed President Barack Obama's stimulus plan weaving through Congress. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 38.47 points (0.48 per cent) to settle at ...

Read between the headlines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2009
Thankfully, the Obama mania that gripped the printed and electronic headlines around the world before and during his inauguration as the 44th President of the United States has drowned the negative media spin on the outlook for the domestic economy. ...