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Paradox of thrift

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2010
... following a US$10.6 billion increase in the previous month. The February decline was the 12th in 13 months, indicating that American consumers continue to repair their balance sheets. But isn't this a good thing? Isn't every money professional admonishing ...

Easter egg hunt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
Has sentiment on Wall Street really, truly changed to positive? Or have financial markets only engaged in an Easter egg hunt for positive news? Read the post-Easter headlines and no matter where you look, financial markets are celebrating not only the ...

Can an outsider transform ipac financial planning?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2010
... billion financial planning business? That's the question advisers asked when financial planning group ipac appointed former American Express executive, Libby Roy, as the new head of its advice arm. Roy will join the company on 12 April as general manager ...

MetLife Australia names new chief

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
... including being the owner of the Australian Walkabout Wildlife Park. In a separate development, Metlife is to buy one of American International Group, Inc.'s (AIG) international subsidiaries, American Life Insurance Company (ALICO), for approximately ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2010
... driving the market at around noon. "There's a lot of green everywhere with the Greek situation being dealt with and the American economy doing OK," Mr Heffernan said. The world's largest miner, BHP Billiton, had gained 46 cents, or 1.07 per cent, to ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAR 2010
The Australian share market had advanced over 0.6 per cent by noon following a firm lead from Wall Street and gains made by the seven largest local stocks. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 35.4 points, or 0.73 per cent, at 4,865.6 ...

End game II

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2010
... depression, especially for countries significantly dependent on foreign trade. Most historians and economists partly blame the American Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act (enacted June 17, 1930) for worsening the depression by seriously reducing international trade ...

End game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2010
... a span of a few weeks in 1998 and collapsed. Wrong call then. China's tit for the America's tat? No way, Jose! Or in American English, "get stuffed!" China's new ambassador to the UN, He O'Yafei, retorted with, " They should not blame the problems they ...

Wen has spoken

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2010

Happy birthday bull

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
... and monetary authorities have a responsibility to relieve the world's population of the hardship brought upon them by American greed and their own, other institutions and so-called 'experts' have an equal responsibility not to fan the flames of fear. ...