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Queen Qaddafi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
... heads and those with literary licenses - the Jasmine Revolution currently doing its tour in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region would send oil prices soaring and derail the fledgling global recovery or ignite inflation or both - stagflation. ...

Sentiment slips on oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... night. And this is all because of worries that the political unrest would spread far and wide across the Middle East and Africa. Libya, in itself, accounts for only 2 per cent of global daily oil production and is the world's 15th largest exporter of ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2011
... Leppinus said the sharemarket was vulnerable in the short term, given the bad news coming from the Middle East and North Africa. Worries about increasingly violent unrest in Libya saw the Dow Jones industrial average lose 178.46 points, or 1.4 per cent ...

Bad news bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2011
ave the grizzlies driven the dip buyers away? Americans came back from their President's Day holiday and saw that nervy days are back again. The S&P 500 index dropped by 2.1 per cent overnight - its biggest in 6 months - and the VIX or "fear index" ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 FEB 2011
The Australian market has received mixed to negative leads from offshore trading overnight, with nervousness stemming from unrest in the Middle East and concerns over possible economic tightening in China contrasting with positive economic news in Europe. ...

Trouble not terribly troubling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2011
... popular revolt that sent Tunisia's President Ben Ali and Egypt's Hosni Mubarak packing could expand to more countries in Africa and the Middle East are becoming reality. But it is the autocrats of Yemen, Jordan, Bahrain, Iran and now Libya that are trembling... ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2011
... 12.82 per cent, after announcing on Wednesday assay results from drilling at its Kangaluwi project in Zambia, in southern Africa. National turnover was 1.26 billion shares worth $2.02 billion, with 457 stocks up, 505 down and 388 unchanged.

People powered

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 FEB 2011
... land of the pharaohs and those of its neighbours. Egypt's future remains uncertain as with the fate of other autocrats in Africa and the Middle East. The Tunisians' victory against Ben Ali, their president - toppled less than a month before - emboldened ...

Bunga bunga

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2011
... it's not only in America and Europe and Asia. The Egyptian turmoil appears to have eased and this is calming nerves in Africa and the Middle East. Have you noticed that reports about Egypt have now been relegated to the inside pages and takes just a ...

Speck of sand

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 FEB 2011
... unfolding Egyptian saga proved just that... temporary. Walk like an Egyptian. Barring contagion to the rest of Arabia (and/or Africa), this issue would be mummified before long. Egypt after all is a small fish in a big ocean - or if you prefer, just ...