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Seeing evil, hearing evil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... keep it in his pants into the sovereign debt crisis equation. Then there's the game of chicken currently showing in Washington. The US government's debt has hit the US$14,300,000,000,000 roof as politicians bicker over who's more patriotic. Politicians ...

Much ado over a known known

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... spins on cycberspace are all because the "credit-rater's" warning (threat?) could serve as a catalyst that will prompt Washington to get its fiscal house in order. The heck it will. The same way it did back in December 2009 when Moody's - another credit ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... YORK - US stocks plunged on Monday after ratings agency Standard & Poor's issued its first warning on US debt, citing Washington's inability to tackle looming fiscal deficits. When markets settled, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 140.24 points ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... economists surveyed by Dow Jones Newswires and the Nikkei. The Japanese trade figures weighed against relief that MPs in Washington had reached an agreement late Friday to avoid a federal government shutdown in the world's biggest economy. Shanghai edged ...

Fed money drives black swans away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
... looming and its name is ' US government shutdown'. Yes Virginia, the Democrats and the GOP are currently scrambling in Washington to forge a compromise on government budget cuts else the government will be closed for business on Friday - yes, this Friday ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011
... Paul O'Sullivan was scheduled to speak at a business lunch in Sydney. In terms of company results, Brickworks Ltd and Washington H Soul Pattison were due to release first half earnings. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's (ACCC) bid ...

USA is going A-OK

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 FEB 2011
... consider the recovery to be truly established." These were the words spoken by Big Ben at the National Press Club in Washington last night. Oh yes, these very words came out of his mouth... but is this really what's in his mind? Reports show that US ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
... conducts a tender process for the issue of $700 million of November 2012 bonds. In equities news, David Jones Ltd and Washington H. Soul Pattinson & Company Ltd hold annual general meetings. On Thursday, the Australian share market surged 1.8 per cent ...

Cheap talk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
... holidays. At least, there was some action there unlike what happened over the weekend when the G-7 Ministers met in Washington for the International Monetary Fund's annual meeting. It was supposed to be a very important meeting where the money chiefs ...

Good for nothing war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2010
... turn from a mere war spectator into one of the combatants. This weekend's annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank in Washington could not come soon enough. Let's hope cooler heads prevail cause war is good for "absolutely nothing".