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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2014
... per cent) at 17,098.45, while the Nasdaq Composite gained 22.58 (0.50 per cent) at 4,580.27, its best level in 14 years. NATO's accusation that Russia had moved 1,000 of its own troops inside Ukraine to help pro-Moscow rebels, and had massed 20,000 on ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
... actively fighting in eastern Ukraine spooking markets overnight. All major US and European markets lost ground overnight as NATO said at least 1,00 Russian troops were on the ground in Ukraine to help support the separtists. IG Markets strategist Stan ...

Only the dead have seen the end of war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
Curses! I warned him did I not? I warned NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen to shush when he "warned of a "high probability" that Russia, using the guise of a humanitarian mission, could intervene militarily in Ukraine". Now everybody's onto it - even ...

China's winning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
... more worries, no more tears, no more geo-political risks, there are only humanitarian missions. Reuters even printed that "NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen warned of a "high probability" that Russia, using the guise of a humanitarian mission, could intervene ...

Life's a bargain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014
... their livelihood and their lives. The downing of Malaysian Airline flight MH17 might push that turns into shove that prompts NATO to sanction a military intervention in the Ukraine. But Israel waits not for NATO. It has reportedly sent ground troops ...

Reheating the cold war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
... that there would be "consequences" for Russia's incursion into Ukraine. The former KGB operative also thumbed his nose at NATO's Secretary-General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen's call for Russia to halt its "military activities and its threats" because "violates ...

Demographic megatrends drive earnings well into the future

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013
A focus on demographic megatrends makes it possible to make earnings forecasts beyond investment analysts' typical three-year horizon, creating opportunities to take advantage of mispriced stocks, according to Fidelity portfolio managers Hilary Natoff ...

Going for gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2012

Believe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012
... because one, they want to see Draghi's words turn into action. As Charles Biderman, writing for Forbes magazine calls it - NATO. No Action Talk Only. Two, they believe that whatever stimulus or counter measures the ECB has in mind would, like the LTROs ...

RBA worries not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
... rate at 4.75 per cent yesterday. The local economy will be right mate! And so would the global one. But last time I looked, NATO's still sending bombs Libya's way with Qaddafi's name written on them and tensions are still boiling in parts of the Middle ...