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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".

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2010
... $600 million of Treasury Notes maturing on February 11, 2011. In equities news, related companies Brickworks Ltd and Washington H Soul Pattinson Ltd are to release first half results. Mirrabooka Investments Ltd holds its annual general meeting, and Redhill ...

Fuld me twice

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2010
... and chief executive of the bank, Dick Fuld, fronted a Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) hearing overnight in Washington. A defiant Fuld told the FCIC hearing that had the failed investment bank been granted access to the emergency liquidity ...

One report, two spins

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2010
... incomes and indicating the economy may avoid slipping back into a recession." Courtney Schlisserman reporting from Washington at 16:17 EDT. Got it? We got two different interpretations of the same US economic report -- written, or submitted, one minute ...

Bond rush

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 AUG 2010
... with the $496.9 billion received by equity funds from 1999 to 2000, according to data compiled by Bloomberg and the Washington-based Investment Company Institute." Get that US$480.2 bil - that's almost half a 1,000,000,000,000! "Imagine there's no heaven." ...

The art of war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUN 2010
... chief global economist of Goldman Sachs, or the senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington. These "experts" euphoria drowned my warning for trepidation. It took the might of Wall Street to convince one and sundry ...