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Greater fool with no shorts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2008
... large number of investment managers covering their short positions? The answer may lie in between. Knowledge that US authorities are and will be there to protect the financial system (at all cost if need be) is certainly quite reassuring. Investors are ...

America on its knees

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2008
... is capable of doing this by itself. There will certainly be more pain to come. But for all this doom and gloom, US authorities might still be able to pull a rabbit out of the hat and, two, three, five years later -- just like the 1987 crash, the Asian ...

Moral hazard remains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2008
... Datastream shows that US debt grew from 130 per cent of GDP in the period 1955-1980 to around 190 per cent in the 2000s. US authorities responded to the savings and loan crisis, Long Term Capital Management, the dotcom bubble with very easy monetary ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2008
... or 0.21 per cent, to 1,251.70. LONDON - European stocks closed higher on Friday, with investors betting that the US authorities will ensure that failing investment bank Lehman Brothers finds a saviour and ease the pressure on the banking sector. In London ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 2 APR 2007
... means more pressure on the RBA to increase rates, if not in the next few days, then most likely so next month. US authorities have decided to impose tariffs on some paper products from China in a move that will be seen as a critical turning point in ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2007
... eight years, the currency has risen to its highest level since the abolition of a fixed exchange rate in 2005. US authorities have been calling for an appreciation of the Yuan so as to stem the tide of cheap Chinese goods flooding the American market ...

Daily Economic Round Up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2006
... China relationship as about 90 per cent of the US problem can be attributed to cheap imports coming from China. US authorities have been pressuring the Chinese government to allow the Chinese currency to appreciate although China has been resisting such ...
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