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Bad tidings we bring

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2009
... about the mother of all these problems? The US economy remains in dire straits as formally acknowledged by President-elect Obama and as indicated by the weekend's depressing payrolls report. The US Labor Department reported that the economy lost 2.6 ...

Knife falls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2008
Anyone else caught the falling knife? Lower earnings forecasts quickly ended Wall Street's optimism over Santa Obama's promise of a 'single biggest investment' since the 1950s. Like I said in yesterday's commentary, for now this is simply rhetoric. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
... the past 11 sessions. "People may be wary that the market may have got a bit ahead of itself," he said. "(President elect) Obama is not going to announce them until January and they are not going to hit the economy until March, April." He said trading ...

Santa Obama

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
... commodity prices went flying. The reason. Santa Klaus has come to town. In his weekly radio interview last Sunday, Santa Obama promised to produce the 'single largest new investment' in roads, bridges and public buildings since the Eisenhower Administration. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
The Australian stock market is expected to open higher after US shares gained on optimism that President-elect Barack Obama's plan for a huge infrastructure spending package will help boost the US economy. Resource stocks may also gain after commodity ...

All I want for Christmas is a job

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
... run-down and obsolete capital stocks and infrastructure in the economy - instead of financing wars. President-elect Barack Obama vowed to make the 'single largest new investment' in roads, bridges and public buildings since the Eisenhower Administration ...

You are what you Google

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2008
... (short for the Australian Securities Exchange). On a lighter note, while those in ACT were busy searching for anything on 'Obama', South Australians were typing in 'Star Wars' and Victorians were clicking on 'Rove'.

Wiki me happy

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2008
... their Gen Y staff and retain their customers. The power of social networking came to the fore after President-elect Barack Obama won the US elections, thanks partly to his foresight about winning voters who are "wired" to the web. These voters communicate ...

Bail-out Plan B

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2008
Has the US Treasury had a change of heart or merely trying to get on the good side of its boss-elect President Obama? The US$700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) will no longer buy the TA (troubled assets) under the RP (relief program). ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
... cent or more the week before. The market briefly came off its highest levels of the session after president-elect Barack Obama reiterated at a news conference that there is a great deal of hard work to be done to restore the economy to health. Investors ...