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May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
... orders point to strong business investment going forward. Strong business investment points to increasing optimism among US firms. Perhaps enough to continue adding to their existing staff. This report is consistent with data showing US durable goods ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2011
... HONG KONG - Asian shares were mixed on Wednesday despite a solid lead from Wall Street following strong earnings by top US firms, with traders in Japan ignoring a cut in the country's debt rating outlook. Trade was muted ahead of a key policy decision ...

Middle East mole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2011
... seen before Lehman Bros went belly up on 15 September 2008. And why not, the recent reporting season shows that most US firms - despite disappointing results from Ford and Amazon - continue to beat profit estimates. And why not, the US economy has woken ...

What ifs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
... QE2 money away to the bond markets, buys out outstanding US mortgages or pays for the wages of additional hires among US firms? According to Table 1155 of the US Census Bureau's " The 2010 Statistical Abstract", US total mortgage outstanding was US$14.6 ...

Which way USA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2010
... slump going forward. Non-residential or business investment rose by 17.0 per cent and added 1.50 per cent to growth. US firms are investing. Must be all that big profits they're now reporting to be making! So which is which? Is this a disappointing GDP ...

Contra confidence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2010
... cent in the year to the first quarter to 10.3 per cent in the June quarter. Plus, the latest reporting season shows that US firms continue beat expectations. According to Bloomberg, 20 of the 23 companies in the S&P500 that have reported so far topped ...

ASX companies fall short on corruption disclosure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2010
... quarter have policies on regulating the payments. This is compared to 92 per cent of UK companies and 80 per cent of US firms, the research found. However, following this research, the ASX Corporate Governance Council released the 'Principles and Recommendations' ...

Stuck at zero

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2009
... economy has sufficiently gathered enough momentum to reverse the upward trajectory in unemployment. Perhaps by then, US firms will be reporting profit growth - not lesser losses. Perhaps by then housing has picked up. Perhaps. Perhaps. Perhaps. And all ...

Pensions deficit hits US firms

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
Mega US companies must reassess their risk management strategy and revise profit expectations after pension plans losses turn a $90 billion surplus into a $420 billion deficit, according to Mercer. According to Mercer's research, the S&P 1500 defined ...

The good and the bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2008
... Exchange Stabilisation Fund, at a cost of US$700 billion. This allowed banks to resume and increase lending activity. US firms and corporations and households are again able to access credit and, because of the optimism over the success of the US authorities' ...