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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011
... Holdings shares fell 1.1 per cent, or 23 cents to $$20.41 after its offshore division was awarded an $US518 million contract by Iraq's South Oil Company (SOC) to develop two offshore platforms. Leighton also won a $80 million mooring contract. Qantas ...

Good jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2011
... equities - fearing the jobless recovery in the 1990/91 and 2001 recessions and the oil price spike in 2003 when the US invaded Iraq-- the same issues that currently dominate the headlines. But the signs are there. Blink and it's on your rear view mir ...

Three and a half men

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2011
... before haven't we? Perhaps not Tunisia, but when the Jasmine Revolutionaries marched on the streets of Egypt, Libya, Bahrain, Iraq, Morocco, Djibouti, Jordan, Oman, etc. financial markets have already factored in that the unrest would spread. So why ...

Bad news bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2011
ave the grizzlies driven the dip buyers away? Americans came back from their President's Day holiday and saw that nervy days are back again. The S&P 500 index dropped by 2.1 per cent overnight - its biggest in 6 months - and the VIX or "fear index" ...

Global Capital Investment launch Iraq Fund

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 NOV 2010
Global Capital Investments will invest in listed equities on the Iraq Stock Exchange (ISX) through its newly-launched Iraq Fund. The fund will allocate up to 20 per cent of its assets in private, less liquid, early-stage investment opportunities in ...

More worries

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2010
... worries - it's called geopolitical risk. In George Bush Junior's time, they were Al Qaeda and Afghanistan and Saddam and Iraq. Last night, screens were flashing red again with geo-political risk on reports that Lebanon fired at Israeli warplanes. So ...

Elusive 10K

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2009
... geopolitical uncertainty - borne out of America's engagement with Al Quaeda in Afghanistan and 'Operation Desert Fox' in Iraq - cleared. The Dow's ascent was aided by low US interest rates - both short and long - ignited a housing and credit bubble. ...

We are the world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2009
... rally the rest of the world to its view. In Europe for instance, the UK has always sided with America - in Afghanistan, in Iraq and in its plan for spending its way out of the global financial crisis - while Russia, Spain, France and Germany opposed. ...

Obama: he's the man

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
... demand even greater effort - even greater co-operation and understanding between nations. We will begin to responsibly leave Iraq to its people, and forge a hard-earned peace in Afghanistan. With old friends and former foes, we will work tirelessly to ...

In defense of Citi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2008
... not just yet. The financial crisis is far from over. Like former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld quipped during the Iraq War, "there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know ...