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Seesaw Margery Daw

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2008
... from Woodrow Wilson to Bill Clinton. Among newly elected Republicans, five -- including Herbert Hoover, Richard Nixon and George W. Bush -- preceded stock-market declines, with a median retreat of 2.5 per cent for all 10.' In the meantime, no one's getting ...

Head or tails?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2008
... 2008.' Equities rallied, albeit not enough to recover all of the previous day's massive losses - after US President George Bush and congressional leaders indicated that negotiations on the US$700 billion rescue package will continue. President Bush was ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2008
... cents to $44.35, ANZ Banking Group lost ten cents to $18.90, Westpac reversed 14 cents to $23.84 and its takeover target St George Bank lost 16 cents to $31.34. National Australia Bank picked up 22 cents, or 0.85 per cent, to $26.02. On Friday in the ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2008
... down 31 points at 5020, on a volume of 11,941 contracts. CMC Markets senior dealer, Matthew Lewis, said US President George Bush's television address urging Congress to approve the Government's proposed rescue plan for the financial industry had buoyed ...

Greater fool with no shorts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2008
... to wrench the claws off the credit squeeze that, last week, threatened to strangle the US financial system to death. The George W. Bush administration proposed to build a dumpster - worth US700 billion - hopefully big enough to contain all of the toxic ...

India to ban food futures

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2008
... The move illustrates how seriously the now much reported global food shortage is being viewed. Last Friday US president George W Bush called on Congress to give an extra $800 million to the UN World Food Program to help them buy much needed food stocks ...

Oil rich city pours $17.1b in SRI

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2008
... well as our own growth and development continues." During the World Future Energy Summit, Masdar presented President George Bush with its six-pronged plan to build Masdar City, the world's first zero carbon, zero waste city. The Masdar Initiative is ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2008
... In the US on Friday, multi-billion-dollar losses announced by major banks earlier in the week overshadowed US President George W Bush's outline of a $US150 billion economic stimulus plan. The Dow Jones industrial average lost 59.91 points to 12,099.30. ...

Too little too late

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2008
... mortgages and bonds) with an annual net loss of US$9.8 billion. Meantime, US and local commentators agree President George Bush's $US150 billion ($171 billion) rescue package have not gone far enough to allay investor fear that a weakening US and, possibly ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2007
... growth. Shares of home builders, financial services companies and other housing-related companies soared after President George W. Bush unveiled a plan that would freeze interest-rate increases on adjustable-rate subprime mortgages for five years. The ...