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Main Street versus Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2009
Wall Street jumped again overnight but Main Street's mood has turned from nervous insouciance to outright outrage. Hip, hip, hurray! Wall Street greeted St. Patrick's Day with a 3.2 per cent rally in the S&P 500, a 2.5 per cent jump in the Dow and the ...

Moral hazard on Main Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
... to make this slogan come true, US President Barack Obama has taken the concept of moral hazard from Wall Street to Main Street. Just one day after he signed his autograph on a piece of paper turning the US$787 billion stimulus plan into law - which did ...

Main Street is burning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2008
... G20 Generals fiddle but Citigroup's announcement of a 53,000 reduction in its workforce brought home the point that Main Street is roasting. After initially fluctuating between both sides of zero, the US equity market closed its first trading day after ...

Climate change rhetoric yet to match investor reality

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2008
... Finsia. "There is quite a knowledge gap opening between those interested in climate change, the rest of the industry and Main Street," said Martin Fahy, Finsia chief executive. Fahy said the study, which is based on a structured sequence of ten focus ...

US Fed holds key short-term rate steady

... rate increases. Economists are likely to view that as another move by the Fed to begin to prepare Wall Street and Main Street for an eventual rate increase. Still, the Fed said that with inflation remaining low and companies operating below capacity ...
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