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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
... $US1 trillion ($A925 billion). The plan would require the debt issue to be voted on again next year, something President Barack Obama does not want. The stalemate over raising the US's borrowing limit has rattled investors. If an agreement is not reached ...

US pension funds issue debt ultimatum

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
US pension funds have issued a rallying call to President Barack Obama and Members of Congress to act immediately on US debt or risk long term damage to the country's retirement savings. The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) released ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
... at 4,538 points, on a volume of 19,823 contracts. IG Markets research analyst Ben Potter said an address by US President Barack Obama on the US debt-ceiling deadlock had failed to register on the local market. The deadlock sent US stocks tumbling overnight. ...

They will deal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2011
... might be because except for a few 'old timers', no one has ever experienced an American default. Not even US President Barack Obama. He was not even conceived when the last one happened. According to the New York Times, the US defaulted back in 1933 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2011
... solid company results bolstered investor confidence. Dealers said sharp gains overnight on Wall Street after US President Barack Obama welcomed a major bi-partisan deal on tackling the public deficit drove Asia higher and set up Europe to build on Tuesday's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2011
... made a similar warning on Wednesday. Even so, there has been little visible progress in negotiations between President Barack Obama and Congressional Republicans. The Standard and Poor's 500 stock index finished with a gain of 7.27, or 0.6 per cent ...

Credit hits the fan as Moody's puts US on downgrade watch

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
... of funds by August 2. If a decision is not made, it will no longer be able to raise funds to pay its bills. US President Barack Obama has been locked in tense negotiations over the issue, walking out of yesterday's deficit meeting at the White House. ...

US to avoid default, EM stocks to rise: Janus

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... of a scare but was unlikely to end in disaster, a portfolio manager for Janus Capital Group said yesterday. US President Barack Obama has warned of impending US economic catastrophe if Congress doesn't agree to raise the US$14.3 trillion debt ceiling ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
... A report from the US Federal Reserve confirming the world's biggest economy was on a good recovery track, and President Barack Obama's plan to scythe spending, did little to move investors. Tokyo ended 0.13 per cent higher, by 12.74 points, at 9,653.92 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2011
... index was 9.4 points, or 0.18 per cent higher, at 4999.6. NEW YORK - US stocks ticked higher Wednesday after President Barack Obama detailed his plans for cutting the deficit and a Federal Reserve report said the economy is improving at a moderate pace. ...