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Add £50b, will travel

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2009

Make love not leverage

... working'. 'Make love, not leverage'. 'Eat the Bankers'. 'Banker, rhymes with ?'. But thousands of kilometers away across the Atlantic, the atmosphere was different. Wall Street was upbeat. The Dow ended the trading session more than 2 per cent higher ...

Beggar thy neighbour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
... import quotas, trade restrictions and export subsidies. The establishment of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), the North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the Association of Southeast Asian Countries (ASEAN) and more recently, the Eurozone was ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2008
... or 2.26 per cent, to 2,212.49. LONDON - Britain's leading share index fell one per cent, as banks on both sides of the Atlantic slid on fears that emergency financing for US bank Bear Stearns could portend further turmoil for the sector. The FTSE 100 ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2008
... per cent, to close unofficially at 2,220.50. LONDON - Britain's top share index slid, with banks on both sides of the Atlantic hit by fears of more losses, while weak US housing data fuelled concerns for a US economy flirting with recession. The FTSE ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2008
... added to worries about a US recession. The Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank said a manufacturing slowdown in the US mid-Atlantic region this month reached its deepest in seven years, while oil futures dropped after a two-day rally. The Dow Jones industrial ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2008
... worries about the economy. The Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank report, which showed that industrial activity in the mid-Atlantic region contracted much more than expected in January, in the biggest monthly drop in the index of business conditions since ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2007
... York Stock Exchange. LONDON - Britain's leading share index rose nearly 1 per cent, as investors on both sides of the Atlantic bet on a US interest rate cut that could inject liquidity into credit markets. The FTSE 100 closed at 6,721.6 points, up 62.6 ...

Airing the dirty sub-prime linen

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2007
... entitled to around $33 million in retirement benefits as well as the $170-odd million in stock and options. Across the Atlantic, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank and UBS are also expected to air their dirty linen, in revealing the extent of their sub-prime ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2007
... LONDON - Britain's leading shares ended up 1.35 per cent after US indices traded higher as investors on both sides of the Atlantic welcomed the Federal Reserve's reassurance on the world's largest economy. A flurry of results and merger and acquisition ...