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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
... extending its recovery from sharp falls last week fuelled by Washington's announcement that it had authorised air strikes in Iraq. Sydney jumped 1.34 per cent, or 73.3 points, to 5,530.30, Seoul rose 0.10 per cent, or 2.10 points, to 2,041.47 and Hong ...

China's winning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
... Ukraine." Shush, don't state the obvious. Happy days are here again for Obama successfully diverted attention from Russia into Iraq by announcing his "humanitarian mission" there. Barack could also be giving Putin a way out by pretending to take Putin ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
... dropped 3.3 points, or 0.06 per cent, at 5,500.7 points EW YORK - US stocks have finished lower as advances by jihadists in Iraq trumped encouraging labour-market data and spurred talk of possible military action by the US. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
... set to follow Wall Street's lead and open higher despite the US ordering air strikes and food and water drops in northern Iraq. At 0805 AEST on Monday, the September share price index futures contract was up 37 points at 5,413. In local economic news ...

Humanitarian you, humanitarian me too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
... race 'ey? Obama started the joke. Time magazine reported on 7 August that "Obama Authorizes Air Strikes, Humanitarian Aid in Iraq".... which started Putin laughing. On 8 August, ITAR-TASS News Agency printed that, "President Vladimir Putin has assembled ...

US/EU v Russia's lose-lose is China's win-win

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
... countries". Defence spending has already increased significantly in the US to fund its War - on Terror, in Afghanistan and Iraq - and still rising, and would increase even more should 'em big boys take us back to the days of the Cold War. Welcome back ...

US bond market says not yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2014
... and Banco Espiritu Santo (again), there's increased geo-political risks - Putin and the Ukraine, Israel and Hamas, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, etc - and rising volatility, there's the IMF "advising" China to slow its economic growth, there's the US economy ...

Dip-buying pays

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2014
... were three. Geo-political risks remain. People are still killing people in the Ukraine, in Gaza, in Libya, in Syria and in Iraq. This is a wild card for the markets, it also reminds me of Bob Dylan's classic, "... how many times must the cannon balls ...

Arrows and more arrows

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2014
... that geo-political risk has never left since early March when Russia annexed Crimea or Syria before that (and now we have Iraq (again), Gaza (again) and Libya (again)), the headlines just chose to ignore them when body counts do not go beyond their normal ...

Life's a bargain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014
... few days when Netanyahu was bombing Palestine- Hamas militants or not. And these exclude the murdering still going on in Iraq and Syria. The rational investor in me takes delight at this new turn of events... every crisis is an opportunity after all. ...