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Crimea makes it domestic

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014
My, my... Crimea has just put a new twist in the turn of the Russia/Ukraine saga. Crimea's Parliament voted - unanimously if I may add - to secede from Ukraine and re-join Russia (which it was part of it till 1954). The Crimeans will get their say in ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
The Australian market has rallied strongly after Russian president Vladimir Putin announced he had no plans to invade Ukraine. BBY client adviser Henry Jennings said Wall Street and European markets had rallied strongly after Mr Putin played down the ...

Just jokin' Putin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
... G7 won. At least that's how it appears after Vladimir ordered his Russian troops back to their barracks, clarified that Russia has intention to annex Crimea and explained that the "use of the military" to defend ethnic Russians in Ukraine is "an extreme ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
... news is expected. In Australia, the market on Tuesday rose modestly as investors awaited on further developments in the Russia-Ukraine standoff. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 15.9 points, or 0.3 per cent, to 5,400.2 points. The broader All Ordinaries ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2014
... analyst Ric Spooner said the local market was the first to move on Monday to news that Ukraine was on the brink of war with Russia in a crisis that began three months ago with civilian protests against the government of President Viktor Yanukovych. "We've ...

Punishing Putin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2014
... Russian President Vladimir Putin just give the G7 a two-handed one finger salute? This is if latest reports are true that Russia has given Ukraine's military forces in Crimea to surrender or face an all out assault, For this comes after the G7 issued ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
... lower as the crisis in Ukraine worsens, causing investors to practice extreme caution. Ukraine is on the brink of war with Russia, which is threatening to invade Ukraine in the wake of the ouster of Kremlin-backed president Viktor Yanukovych. The deepening ...

Market down on Ukraine unrest

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
... share market has opened weaker as a geopolitical crisis in the Ukraine escalates. The Ukraine is on the brink of war with Russia threatening to invade in a crisis that began three months ago with civilian protests against the government of President ...

Reheating the cold war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
... approval to send a "stabilisation force" to Crimea only hours after Obama warned 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 ...

More to Asia than just Chindia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2014
... 'Asian century', Australia is ranked only 10th for direct M&A investment into SEA placing it behind even The Netherlands and Russia.