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The Art of War

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2009
... interchange currently in progress in China and are taking side bets on who will be the first one to blink. US President Obama wants China to revalue its currency. China's head honcho Hu Jintao complains about America's restrictions on Made in China imports ...

Battle of the bulge

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2009
... assure America's lenders that the money they give Uncle Sam to give to its people would not erode in value. US President Obama is in Asia right now and speculations are that he would pressure China to revalue its undervalued renminbi. Pressure China? ...

Job woes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2009
... businesses to start hiring again. But before this could happen Americans must start spending. To ensure this, President Obama extended unemployment benefits and temporary tax credits for homebuyers as well as seeking new ways to boost employment. Until ...

Three wise men - maybe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2009
... banker. He warned that, "it's still going to feel like a very weak economy for some time." A similar refrain from President Obama when he told his Bloomberg interviewer that he doesn't "think we're out of the woods yet... "What we have to be careful ...

Playing chicken with tyres

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2009
... and downward sloping. Trust politicians to try fix economies and they're sure to muck it up. What's gotten to US President Obama? In one word and three numbers - Section 421. Section 421 of the Trade Act of 1974 (China-Specific Safeguards) specifies ...

Expect the unexpected

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2009
... We may be seeing 'what happens' happening now. Illegal immigrants in the US and the Republicans are attacking President Obama's proposal to overhaul America's health care system as part of efforts to rein in government spending and return the budget ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2009
... cities slowed to an annual rate of 15.4 per cent in June from 17.1 per cent in May. Before the market opened, President Obama announced he was nominating Bernanke for a second four-year term, citing his skill in maneuvering the economy toward recovery. ...

Meredith Whitney

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2009
... name, don't wear it out! It took just one woman with gumption to whip Wall Street back in the right direction. US President Obama, displaying his inherent gift of the gab, was ignored. So were US Treasury Timmy Geithner and Ben Bernanke. And what happened ...

Can't swing it both ways

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2009
... less than US Vice President Joe Biden is pondering a second stimulus. This is backed by Laura Tyson - a member of President Obama's Economic Recovery Advisory Board - saying that the US$787 billion package approved last February was 'a bit too small'. ...

Pres Obama proposes sweeping regulatory reforms

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2009
To plug regulatory gaps that the Whitehouse believes precipitated the GFC, President Obama has proposed the biggest change to financial oversight since the New Deal. Central to the reforms are the creation of a Financial Oversight Council that will ...