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AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
... Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani urged the people to defend the country against jihadist insurgents while President Barack Obama said he was examining options short of sending in US troops. Insurgents have seized Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, and ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... 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, forces from ...

The name is bonds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2014
... officer and co-chief investment officer of PIMCO, who's now chief economic adviser at Allianz SE and chairman of Barack Obama's Global Development Council, Mohamed El-Erian, offers four explanations. "One explanation is sheer investor inertia. Bond prices' ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014
... 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 be "forced ...

Reheating the cold war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
Bloody Vladimir! This must be what US President Barack Obama thought after two-time (2000-2008 and 2012-present) Russian President and two-time (1999-2000 and 2008-2012) Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin "asked" and "got" the Russian Parliament's ...

US Congress votes to raise debt ceiling

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2014
... their normal tactic of strongly opposing Democrat sponsored legislation to increase the debt ceiling unless President Barack Obama agreed to major budget cuts. The change in the GOP tactics came after President Obama refused to negotiate over Speaker ...

Obama launches myRA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2014
President of the United States Barack Obama has proposed a new retirement savings program called MyRA to help Americans prepare for retirement. The plan was unveiled in last week's 2014 State of the Union address. The plan will not require Congressional ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2013
... Paris slipped 0.10 per cent to 4,086.86 points. Milan tumbled 1.44 per cent and Madrid shed 0.84 per cent. President Barack Obama hailed the two-year spending deal as a sign of rare bipartisan co-operation in the strife-filled legislature. The euro climbed ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013
... (0.83 per cent) to reach 3,791.87. Investor anxiety eased on Thursday after Republican leaders offered President Barack Obama a short term extension of the US government's borrowing authority so as to stave off a possible debt default. By Friday, there ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013
... the US of progress in negotiations to raise the country's debt ceiling. Republicans have held talks with President Barack Obama, enough to send global markets higher, even though the talks are yet to result in a clear outcome. All sectors on the local ...