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Chinese medicine

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2009
... between growth and non-growth. This index has been below the 50 line for 10 straight months now - and counting. Without the China news, there is no doubt that markets would have latched onto these reports as reasons why equities tumbled. But not last ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2009
... per cent, to 3125.9. NEW YORK - Wall Street snapped a five-day losing streak as an expected economic stimulus plan from China and new US efforts to ease home foreclosures helped mute the impact of weak economic data. Investors were encouraged by details ...

Thank you RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2009
... stronger-than-expected export growth in the same period? And this was achieved even with our major trading partners collapsing and China slowing. Still on the subject of business inventories. Business de-stocking in the fourth quarter maybe negative ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2009
The Australian stock market was at a five year low at noon, dragged down by QBE Insurance and Rio Tinto as uncertainty about the US government's response to its weak economy weighed on prices. At 1200 AEDT on Monday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2009
The Australian share market is likely to open lower after data on Friday showed a deeper-than-anticipated contraction in the US economy, prompting a slump in share prices there. At 0724 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index ...

Riccardian equivalence redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2009
... generated by the US government from taxing highly paid Americans will go into retiring its debt obligations. I could see China and other US government creditors now wringing their hands. The jury is still out on America. Even US Federal Reserve Chairman ...

China could own America

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2009
... allowed to fail. Or could it? While America is bailing out its institutions, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in China cup in hand begging the Chinese to continue sending money the US way. In a Chinese television interview, Mrs. Clinton said ...

Nationalisation - that ugly word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
... decades ago. I won't be surprised if ex-USSR President Mikhael Gorbachev's name in many of these nations has now become mud. China must be thanking its lucky stars that it remained bisexual - half socialist, half capitalist. But what is so ugly about ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2009
... points, or 0.96 per cent, to end at 7,779.4. HONG KONG - Hong Kong share prices closed 2.5 per cent higher on Friday, as China-focused companies tracked gains on the mainland bourse and Tokyo. The benchmark Hang Seng Index ended 326.37 points up at 13,554.67. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2009
The Australian stock market was marginally higher at noon, with the finance sector stronger but the big miners limiting gains on the local market. By 1208 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 16.5 points, or 0.47 per cent, at 3,530.8 while the ...