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Middle East mole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2011
... investment and more jobs. Expectations are that the American economy could grow by around 4 per cent this year. Across the Atlantic, while popping up every now and again, Europe's mole appears to be in hibernation. Financial markets are appeased for ...

Perpetual settles over Mahogany

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2010
... Perpetual, Lehman Brothers, and Saphir's trustee, the Bank of New York Mellon, ensued, with courts on either side of the Atlantic providing opposing rulings. But now, after more than 18 months of wrangling, the stalemate appears to finally have been ...

Chireland hurdled

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
... of most of China's export markets. The point is China continued to grow. Amen! And across the troubled waters of the Atlantic, Ireland may have been dragged to the begging table screaming and shouting, but forced to take its medicine it was. Admitting ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 AUG 2010
... Nasdaq Composite Index lost 36.75 points, or 1.66 per cent, to 2,178.95. A report showing factory activity in the mid-Atlantic states contracted in August for the first time since July 2009 blind-sided investors, who had been expecting activity to increase. ...

Converting to convertible bonds

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2010
With economies on both sides of the Atlantic faced with the dual threats of rising debt and deficits, and stubbornly high unemployment, economists and central bankers are divided as to whether the escalating prices of the late 1970's or a Japanese-style ...

Ascalon and Regal form partnership

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2010
... Regal has four wholesale investment vehicles on offer to Australian investors - the Tasman Fund (market neutral), the Atlantic Fund (absolute return), the Regal Australian Long Short Equity Fund, and the Regal Asian Quantitative Fund. Ascalon Managers ...

Bring it on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUN 2010
... momentum -- it's not going to turn its V into a W - offering a positive counterbalance to the ongoing debt crisis across the Atlantic. Bring it on Europe! The guess. According to Bloomberg, consensus predicts that the US payrolls report would show that ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2009
... Exchange, the December share price index contract was 26 points higher at 4,640. In company news, ARC Exploration Ltd, Atlantic Gold NL and Cloncurry Metals Ltd hold annual general meetings. Day 2 of the 3rd Annual Housing Affordability Congress will ...

Optimism may not be enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2009
... Wall Street. So while we wait for adrenalin to start flowing again, let's take a look at what's happening across the Atlantic. Like their counterparts in most part of the globe, Eurozone equities have welcomed the massive liquidity injections by both ...

Hermaphrodite economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2009
... unemployment rate has been anchored at 5.8 per cent for the past three months. There's also testosterone pumping across the Atlantic. Halifax reported that UK average house prices rose by 0.8 per cent to 160,793 in August - the second consecutive month ...