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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2011
... rose despite global growth warnings, receiving support from Wall Street that looked ahead to a key jobs speech by US President Barack Obama. London's FTSE 100 index of leading companies climbed 0.41 per cent to 5,340.38 points, Paris' CAC 40 also rose ...

Obama punts on US$300bn jobs package

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2011
US president Barrack Obama has defied critics who thought his climbdown last month with Congress over the debt ceiling would make him gun-shy, by proposing a jobs stimulus package that is nearly as big as the entire Australian commonwealth annual budget. ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2011
... after global markets had tumbled, were helped along by a strong opening on Wall Street a day before a key speech by US President Barack Obama in which he is expected to announce fresh measures to boost employment and stave off recession. The euro also ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2011
... Bell Potter client adviser Greg McPherson said volumes were below average as investors awaited firmer direction from US President Barack Obama's speech on Thursday (US time), which is expected to propose $US300 billion ($A286 billion) in federal spending ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2011
... while Madrid shed 3.24 per cent and other European markets slumped. HONG KONG - Asian stock markets surged after US President Barack Obama said lawmakers had reached a last-minute deal that would raise the country's debt ceiling and avoid a catastrophic ...

Agreement reached on debt ceiling

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
... last-minute agreement to raise its debt ceiling, narrowly averting what might have become a global economic disaster. US President Barack Obama announced that Democrat and Republican Party leaders in both the House of Representatives and the Senate have ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
... for June. The Australian Industry Group/Pricewaterhouse performance of manufacturing (PMI) index for July is due. US President Barack Obama is due to give a speech on negotiations to avert a US debt default at 1100 AEST. The Reserve Bank of Australia ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
... higher at 4,538 points, on a volume of 19,823 contracts. IG Markets research analyst Ben Potter said an address by US President Barack Obama on the US debt-ceiling deadlock had failed to register on the local market. The deadlock sent US stocks tumbling ...

Deal or no deal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011
... to the final buzzer, we all know that the final call would be "deal!" The New York Times reported last night that US President Obama (Democrat) and House Speaker John Boehner (Republican) were nearing a "major budget deal." Hooray! Until it runs into ...

They will deal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2011
... now. Or it might be because except for a few 'old timers', no one has ever experienced an American default. Not even US President Barack Obama. He was not even conceived when the last one happened. According to the New York Times, the US defaulted back ...