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AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
... Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani urged the people to defend the country against jihadist insurgents while President Barack Obama said he was examining options short of sending in US troops. Insurgents have seized Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, and ...

Wall Street slips on oil slick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... of the Middle East, don't we? It spikes. So buckle up coz here we go again. Gulf War the third. Just in from Bloomberg, "Obama Won't Rule Out Airstrikes to Aid Iraq's Army". Oil spikes! "West Texas Intermediate and Brent crudes surged to eight-month ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... cent, to 4,297.63. Jihadists pushed toward Baghdad on Thursday after capturing a town to the north, as US President Barack Obama said his national security team "is looking at all the options". With the militants approaching the capital, forces from ...

The name is bonds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2014
... officer and co-chief investment officer of PIMCO, who's now chief economic adviser at Allianz SE and chairman of Barack Obama's Global Development Council, Mohamed El-Erian, offers four explanations. "One explanation is sheer investor inertia. Bond prices' ...

The scares that weren't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
... messages telegraphed by the Fed before the meeting. So now all's well, back to data watching... and eyeballing Putin. President Obama has just announced that the US is expanding the list of "pillow" sanctioned Russian official - including a Russian bank ...

Calm over Crimea and US houses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
... sanctions carry more bite, it'll be inutile. As "sanctioned" Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin tweeted, "Comrade Obama, what should those who have neither accounts nor property abroad do? Have you not thought about it? I think the decree of ...

China's art of currency war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2014
... the Crimean region of Ukraine as a sovereign independent state following the "will of the people."" This, notwithstanding Obama's warning that, "If Russia continues to interfere in Ukraine, we stand ready to impose new sanctions". Let's wait and see. ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014
... intensifies. At 0645 AEDT on Friday, the March share price index futures contract was down 58 points at 5,355. US President Barack Obama on Thursday said that if Russia continued an aggressive path in Ukraine, the US and other countries would be "forced ...

Reheating the cold war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
Bloody Vladimir! This must be what US President Barack Obama thought after two-time (2000-2008 and 2012-present) Russian President and two-time (1999-2000 and 2008-2012) Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin "asked" and "got" the Russian Parliament's ...

US Congress votes to raise debt ceiling

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2014
... their normal tactic of strongly opposing Democrat sponsored legislation to increase the debt ceiling unless President Barack Obama agreed to major budget cuts. The change in the GOP tactics came after President Obama refused to negotiate over Speaker ...