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To spend or not to spend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2010
... recovery from faltering. Else it could produce a "Hoover moment" - referring to the premature fiscal tightening by then US President Hoover blamed for prolonging the depression of the 1930s. But most, if not all, of Europe may not be amenable given the ...

When old news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2010
... closing almost 1 per cent higher on the day - compared with the previous days' slow grind to the top. There's news that US President Obama signed into law America's healthcare reform bill. But wasn't Wall Street also cheering when Republican Scott Brown ...

No pleasing Mr. Market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2010
... per cent "growth path is stable all the year along." State of the Union. In his first State of the Union address, US President Obama again rallied the troops. He announced more tax relief and aid to the 'small people of America' while at the same time ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2010
The Australian share market had made marginal gains by noon on Thursday ahead of US President Barack Obama's State of the Union address and US December growth figures due on Friday. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index had firmed 1.1 point ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2010
... than one per cent at noon with falls across the major banks and resources sector, following concern about plans by US President Obama to reform the banking sector. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 55.4 points, or 1.17 per cent, at ...

Now that's challenging

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2010
... Republican's coup in Massachusetts - considered a very safe Democrat stronghold - might have become too loud for US President Obama not to hear. US taxpayers are angry. Furious that their taxes went into propping up banks and financial institutions who ...

Good For China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2010
China is proving true to the words uttered by US President John F. Kennedy half a century earlier. In a speech in Indianapolis delivered on 12 April 1959, JFK said that, "When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents ...

The Art of War

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2009
... Sino-Americano interchange currently in progress in China and are taking side bets on who will be the first one to blink. US President Obama wants China to revalue its currency. China's head honcho Hu Jintao complains about America's restrictions on ...

Battle of the bulge

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2009
... Timmy to assure America's lenders that the money they give Uncle Sam to give to its people would not erode in value. US President Obama is in Asia right now and speculations are that he would pressure China to revalue its undervalued renminbi. Pressure ...

Our fearful trip is done

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2009
... sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting..." Walt Whitman wrote this poem after US President Abraham Lincoln's assassination on 14 April 1865. Nearly one and half century later, RBA Governor Glen Stevens could have used ...