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Up, down, flat trading day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2010
... "difficult" yet needed for "the survival of our country and our economy". But wait! Indices are weakening and fell below the zero line by mid-afternoon. What's a poor finance reporter to do now? I've already written my market wrap and just waiting for ...

Away for Easter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2009
... agencies to boot. I just wonder what today's commentaries would be if Wall Street advanced instead falling slightly below the zero line. Ahhh, the headlines would say Wall Street eked out gains 'despite' Mayo's.... You get the picture. Why Mayo's call ...

Beggar thy neighbour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
... - rich and poor. Financial and economic conditions remained depressed despite central banks racing with each other to the zero line. Many of the major ones are now there. Others are fast catching up. Not so long ago, there was American clamour to institute ...

The biggest loser

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2009
... contracting and the outlook for this year is non-the-brighter. But while the central banks of the US, Japan and the UK raced to the zero interest rate line, the European Central Bank (ECB) appears seemingly nonchalant perhaps applying the 'Tortoise and ...

Focus on the good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2009
... would it? And to further put things in perspective, year-on-year US real GDP - thus far - had only peeped through under the zero line - down 0.2 per cent! And people are talking of Depression? Never mind the Great Depression, which the US and the world ...

Santa Obama

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
... the Dow's peeping above the 9,000 mark in intra-day trade and the S&P 500 index' return surging pass the level above the zero line for the month. Similarly, commodity prices went flying. The reason. Santa Klaus has come to town. In his weekly radio interview ...

Kenya budgets right for investments

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2008
... investors first in line to benefit. The group said in a report that household consumers will benefit from lower food prices. "The zero rating of rice and bread could translate to an immediate 16 per cent reduction in their prices. Duty on imported wheat ...

Russell launches integrated super banking account

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2008
... have teamed up to provide a one stop shop superannuation, pension and banking product that allows pensioners to stay in the zero tax threshold while harnessing the flexibility of their ATM account. The Russell Private Active Pension (RPAP) follows the ...

Daily economic update

... bank seems to be preparing to press the rate hike button. Prime Minister Koizumi said the central bank should remove the zero interest rate policy as it sees fit. This reverses earlier jawboning urging the Bank of Japan (BoJ) to keep policy unchanged ...

Plastic debt to reach $48 billion

... regional and niche players kick-started a strategic revolution - one of the largest manifestations of which has been the zero per cent balance transfer," said Alan Shields, Datamonitor's financial services analyst and author of the report. Niche player ...
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