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Playing chicken with tyres

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2009
... and downward sloping. Trust politicians to try fix economies and they're sure to muck it up. What's gotten to US President Obama? In one word and three numbers - Section 421. Section 421 of the Trade Act of 1974 (China-Specific Safeguards) specifies ...

Meredith Whitney

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2009
... name, don't wear it out! It took just one woman with gumption to whip Wall Street back in the right direction. US President Obama, displaying his inherent gift of the gab, was ignored. So were US Treasury Timmy Geithner and Ben Bernanke. And what happened ...

Spin-a-win

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2009
... However, the bears could win medium term (after three or four years?). Why this time span? Because it is when US President Obama promised, "Yes, we can!" cut the budget deficit in half, that is. If he makes good on his promise income taxes - personal ...

Seize the pay

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
... excessive executive pay at companies that have received government bail-outs. In the US, local newspapers reported US President Obama's missive for the Treasury to block $165 million in bonuses going towards AIG staff.

Spring springs on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2009
... profitable in the first two months of 2009 following five consecutive quarters of losses. Is this, in the words of US President Obama, 'the beginning of the end?' Or another sucker's rally? The answer is perhaps somewhere in between. Just as I warned ...

Let them have soup

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
... -- the highest since record began in 1972. Loans in foreclosure rose to a record 3.3 per cent. Ironically, US President Obama's new acronym the HASP or Homeowner Affordability and Stability Plan would only tend to increase these delinquencies. Rational ...

The Ides of March

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
... rumours of nationalisation. Announcement of more government bail-outs and this time, in the US, accompanied by US President Obama's pledge to correct the budget deficit to soothe investors worried about an exit plan. By all indications, the worst of ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
... 2.15 per cent to 3,009.75. TOKYO - Japanese shares gained on Thursday as investors hoped for bold action by US President Obama to nurse the economy back to health after the House of Representatives approved a stimulus package. The Tokyo Stock Exchange's ...

Humpty Dumpty Syndrome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2008
... White House now be named differently?' The White House will remain the White House. Americans will get used to US President Obama. Mothers around the world from hereon would be able to point to that little, thin Kenyan boy that could and became. Yes ...
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