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No way USA can't repay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
... alongside the words "debt ceiling" oh so close to D-day. Frankly, I'm getting sick of watching this game of chicken that Washington's playing. And if you're watching the markets instead of reading the headlines, you'll be asking yourself what the F it's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
... to 4,530.4, while the broader All Ordinaries index dropped 70.3 points, or 1.5 per cent, to 4,603.8. NEW YORK - The Washington deadlock over raising the US debt ceiling sent stocks tumbling on Monday, as the August 2 date to avoid a government debt default ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2011
... NEW YORK - US stocks fell slightly on Wednesday as investors waited for a resolution to the debt-ceiling standoff in Washington and digested a mixed bag of second-quarter earnings reports. The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 15.51 points (0.12 per ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUL 2011
... weaker, or 0.06 per cent, at 4,4539.9. NEW YORK - US stocks took a beating on Monday as the debt-ceiling battle in Washington and the broadening debt crisis in Europe weighed on investor confidence. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 94.57 points ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2011
... stock market from having its worst week in nearly a year. Investors seemed to largely ignore the ongoing debate in Washington over raising the country's borrowing limit. Troubling questions over Europe's financial health and manufacturing in the US weighed ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011
... sales and a drop in gas prices pushed up retail sales slightly in June. Stocks were also held back by a stalemate in Washington over raising the country's borrowing limit. LONDON - European stocks slumped after the Italian government's borrowing costs ...

Knights in shining armour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
... dreaming of..." Sir Ben may have as well sang this in his testimony before the House Financial Services Committee in Washington last night - for the message was the same: "The possibility remains that the recent economic weakness may prove more persistent ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
... broadcaster BSkyB. The European crisis sent US bond prices higher -- despite the continued debt-and-deficit talks impasse in Washington, now just three weeks before the country could be forced to into default. The yield on the 10-year Treasury fell to ...

Fear is in the air

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2011
... there something afoot in Big Benny's head? Is he letting the bad times roll to scare the pants off the markets -- and Washington -- so that he wouldn't even have to justify QE3... one and all would be begging him for another hit? What about America's ...

Russell heads back to Canberra

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2011
... was senior executive in the Commonwealth Treasury. In 1995 Russell left Canberra when he was appointed Ambassador in Washington, returning to Canberra in 1996 to advise then Prime Minister Keating. On appointing Russell yesterday to Secretary of the ...