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Brogden calls for government agreement on FATCA

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2012
... agreement as a matter of priority." Treasurer Wayne Swan is believed to have previously raised the issue with US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Australian Treasury officials have been communicating with their US counterparts on the issue. France ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2011
... which had earlier gained against the dollar, slid to $US1.3391 from $US1.3397 late in New York on Tuesday. US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said he was confident that Europe would find a way out of its debt crisis, a solution to which is important ...

Volcker Rule dramatics continue

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011
... corporate bond market and Congressmen who think it still contains too many loopholes. Meanwhile, former US Treasury Secretary Paul Volcker who proposed the reform, says at 300 pages it's now become too complicated because of all the provisions negotiated ...

Manufactured in China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011
... days after the US Senate passed a bill allowing sanctions on countries with "misaligned" exchange rates and US Treasury Secretary Geithner's vocal support for the bill and US President Obama's accusation that China is "gaming the system" by keeping its ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
... until they had firmer evidence of Athens's willingness to cut its deficit. In another sign of friction, US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who was also attending the meeting, disagreed with his German counterpart Wolfgang Schaeuble over Europe's ...

Asian counterweight

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2011
... Orderly or disorderly - Greece will have to default. And this is giving everyone the jitters. Not least is US Treasury Secretary Timmy Geithner who preached to the Europeans to act more forcefully to solve their crisis. Yeah, he can talk. "Why do you ...

They will deal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2011
... all the profits in the world wouldn't matter if Uncle Sam is unable to service its debt. In a letter to US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Matthew E. Zames -- JPMorgan Chase managing director and chairman of the Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee ...

Time to call it quits - again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... and the Eurozone got here. Now it's time for a real solution. I thought of suggesting doing what former US Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady did to solve the Latin American crisis back in the late 1980s. It succeeded! Turns out I wasn't the only one ...

Seeing evil, hearing evil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... the biggest owner of US Treasuries, would suffer a substantial loss. And that's another bad, bad thing. US Treasury Secretary Timmy Geithner warned that if Congress doesn't raise the debt ceiling by 2 August, it would have a "catastrophic economic impact." ...

Experts bullish on US despite debt gloom

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
... American country, which must seek approval from congress to increase the $14.29 trillion debt ceiling by May. US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has warned that failure to raise the statutory borrowing limit would ultimately lead to a default on ...