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Drown baby, drown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2016
... 1990-1991 US recession was partly caused by the spike in the price of oil following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in the summer of 1990. - The 2001 US and global recession was partly caused by the sharp increase in the price of oil in 2000 following the ...

China's January effect

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2016
... just a continuation of the same issues that concerned investors in 2015 (more or less). But it's the return of China's summer of discontent - precipitous drop in its stock market and devaluation of the yuan - during this Northern Hemisphere winter that ...

In the archives: Mavis Robertson on the importance of more women on boards

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2015
... boards. Here are extracts of the phone interview with her after the roundtable and the two-part article series. In the summer of 2003, the Norwegian government introduced an unlikely law: it called on all publicly listed companies and state-owned companies ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
... In Paris the CAC 40 sank 3.63 per cent to 3,939.72 points, falling below the 4,000 mark for the first time since the summer of 2013. HONG KONG - Asian markets rose, with bargain-hunters providing some lift after recent losses while data showing Chinese ...

Not strong enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2013
... His calculations show that the unemployment rate will fall to 7% in the last quarter of this year and 6.5% by "late summer of 2014", assuming continuation of the trend in the US labour market since 2010 - i.e., 150K monthly addition to payrolls and half ...

May Day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2013
... in March, erasing February's 1.5% gain (and then some) and disappointing predictions for a 0.6% increase. Ahhh, the summer of discontent once more comes to America. Sell if you may in May...but purely for tactical reasons. For strategically, the Fed ...

Bear market end in sight: AMP Capital

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012
... may be coming to an end, according to AMP Capital's Shane Oliver. Since the galling crash of the dotcom bubble in the summer of 2000, the stock market has struggled to provide investors with any predictable returns. Investors dined out on the returns ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
... government-appointed commission publishes final recommendations aimed at avoiding further state bailouts of lenders. BRUSSELS - After a summer of hell, the eurozone's divided leaders hit the ground running this week in crunch talks to save Greece from ...

Buying op

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2011
... the recovery" and Dr. Nouriel Roubini's double-dip warning, "If you had the oil price going up to where it was in the summer of 2008, at $140 a barrel, at that point some of the advanced economies will start to double dip." Back then I argued that if ...

Oil at US$300

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2011
... economies into DD. Yes, it's that double-dip word back again. "If you had the oil price going up to where it was in the summer of 2008, at $140 a barrel, at that point some of the advanced economies will start to double dip." I'll see your double-dip ...
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