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Punting on next week

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2010
... third quarter earnings releases last night didn't matter -majority of companies still beat expectations anyway. Data on US house prices didn't matter - they don't know where they're going. The Federal Housing Finance Agency reported that home prices ...

Spoiling for war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 OCT 2010
... gents, lead us to the world's biggest economy in the world spoiling for war - trade war, that is - with number two. The US House of Congress yesterday voted 348 to 79 passing legislation that would allow American businesses to asked for punitive tariffs ...

Stimulate and die

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2010
... best guess is we will have a continued recovery, but it won't feel terrific." -- and his testimony overnight before the US House Budget Committee overnight -- "We have a recovery under way now" and that he doesn't believe that a double-dip is likely. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAR 2010
... CSL was down 60 cents, or 1.67 per cent, at $35.26. Mr Smith said the decline went against the expected trend after the US House of Representatives passed President Obama's healthcare legislation that will expand healthcare coverage to 32 million Americans ...

When the time comes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2010
... Goldman perhaps? (tempting, tempting) - and cross to America, where the Fed is again making waves. Testifying before the US House Financial Services Committee, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke stated that, "Although at present the US economy continues to require ...

US reform tightens net on big firms

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2009
The US House of Representatives has given government regulators more power to clamp down on "too big to fail" firms that threaten economic instability. Voters have given the green light to a bill to rein in firms seen as "too big to fail", according ...

Herding 20 cats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2009
... American consumer confidence fell in September when markets were expecting a rise. The other side of the coin showed US house prices rose in July by more than three times expectations. Same old, same old. What is fresh - and went largely unnoticed - ...

Undue credit (ratings)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2009
... dollar sign -- such as the ones we've read in recent headlines? Kolchinsky will testify on ratings firm reform before the US House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. This should be interesting. But it would be more for the other big two - ...

Not a happy EOFYS on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2009
... revenge for revenge's sake. It's simply an economic and purely rational decision. And this would continue as long as US house prices continue to fall. And here there is good news. The S&P/Case-Shiller home price index in May posted its smallest monthly ...

Happy Americans, happy world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
... Wall Street. Green sprouts starting to flower? Neither Kim Jung Il's rattling of his nuclear sabre nor a reminder that US house prices continue to fall were able to prevent Wall Street from turning in a strong finish last night - thanks to its cheerier ...