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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2011
... while solid company results bolstered investor confidence. Dealers said sharp gains overnight on Wall Street after US President Barack Obama welcomed a major bi-partisan deal on tackling the public deficit drove Asia higher and set up Europe to build ...

Credit hits the fan as Moody's puts US on downgrade watch

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
... run out of funds by August 2. If a decision is not made, it will no longer be able to raise funds to pay its bills. US President Barack Obama has been locked in tense negotiations over the issue, walking out of yesterday's deficit meeting at the White ...

US to avoid default, EM stocks to rise: Janus

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... a bit of a scare but was unlikely to end in disaster, a portfolio manager for Janus Capital Group said yesterday. US President Barack Obama has warned of impending US economic catastrophe if Congress doesn't agree to raise the US$14.3 trillion debt ceiling ...

Economic woes keep US growth in check

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... of 3 per cent and anticipated falls in the unemployment rate. But Feldstein, once chief economic advisor to former US president Ronald Reagan, said the US economic recovery faced resistance once the fiscal stimulus of QEII was wound back. He said rising ...

Cashed-up China eyes US investments

... head of IT group Lenova who said that the $300 billion China sovereign wealth fund discussed the possibilities with US president Obama during the recent state visit by China president Hu Jintao, reported the Asia Wall Street Journal. Lenovo is seen as ...

China no slow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 JAN 2011
"You're nothing without me A no one who'd go undefined You wouldn't exist You'd never be missed." US President Obama might have as well be singing these lyrics from the "City of Angels Musical" when, according to the Australian Financial Review, he ...

Of Jobs, Hu and Obama

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2011
... US$26.7 billion. But even bigger than Jobs, Chinese President Hu Jintao is coming to America... and meet and dine with US President Barack Obama at the White House. I could just imagine the polite dinner conversation. BO: More roast beef Mr. President? ...

Global private equity firms invest in OzForex

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2010
The $100 billion private equity firm Carlyle Group, which has links to some influential world leaders, has invested in OzForex, the retail foreign exchange provider part-owned by Macquarie Private Wealth. The size of the investment was not disclosed ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
... comes out with before they get overly optimistic with the scenario at this point of time," Mr Muller said. "And (US president Barack) Obama talked up the prospects of further fiscal stimulus last night, so it's probably a bit cautious." On Wall Street ...

World peace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2010
... asking the financial markets for more time for highly indebted countries to get their houses in order. In the words of US President Obama, "... we can't all rush to the exits at the same time." It could create a stampede that kills the recovery.