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Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
Australian stocks have fallen to a two month low as escalating tension in Iraq caused heavy falls on Wall Street. Another sharp drop in the iron ore price has also sparked heavy falls in Australian miners. IG market strategist Stan Shamu said he thought ...

Wall Street slips on oil slick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... 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 highs as violence escalated across ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... Australian share market is set for further falls after another negative session on Wall Street, caused by escalating violence in Iraq that pushed US oil prices to nine month highs. At 0700 AEST on Friday, the March share price index futures contract ...

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 ...

Senate to question ASIC over alleged RBA corruption

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2013
... the media that two subsidiary companies of the RBA, Note Printing Australia and Securency, allegedly liaised with former Iraq president Saddam Hussein's brother-in-law to illegally supply plastic bank notes to the Iraqi government while it was subject ...

Li gets what Li likes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2013

The weekend that could change the world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013
... change by another vote by bigger mortals than Kevin and Tony.A The G20 meets on the weekend.A The agenda: Syria.A Although Iraq I and Iraq II showed that equity markets take off once the missile starts flying, and is expected to be a quick and surgical ...

Delay of execution

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2013
... soon. Yes Virginia, Wall Street's reaction to the looming war with Syria is playing out according to the script of the 1991 Iraq War and its 2003 sequel. There's the sell orders that comes with the anxiety and extrapolations to never never that war brings.A ...

Prepare for take-off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2013
... it becomes a tax on growth to the global economy? But hang on...haven't we seen this movie before?A Yes we have...twice. Iraq War Part 1: "Operation Desert Storm" (1991) Just as today, the prelude to war had been punctuated by a hefty does of anxiety ...

Put up or shut up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012
... some dough in the 1997/98 Asian financial crisis, stayed the course during 9/11, bought bargains during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, nearly lost all the gains on the bargains I bought when the GFC struck, added some more (close but not at the March 2009 ...