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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.

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 ...