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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2011
... 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, to 1,316.14. ...

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

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
... 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. Overnight ...

US to avoid default, EM stocks to rise: Janus

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... 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, reached ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
... 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
... 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. Surges ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
... industrial average. Stocks traded in a tight range throughout the day as investors weighed the impact of President Barack Obama's $US3.73 trillion ($A3.73 trillion) budget proposal for the next fiscal year. Obama's budget includes a five-year freeze ...

Of Jobs, Hu and Obama

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2011
... But even bigger than Jobs, Chinese President Hu Jintao is coming to America... and meet and dine with US President Barack Obama at the White House. I could just imagine the polite dinner conversation. BO: More roast beef Mr. President? (Hope you choke ...

US fin reforms win pension fund support

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2010
The biggest pension fund in the US, CalPERS, has applauded President Barack Obama's new federal financial reform law that holds credit rating agencies more accountable for their ratings and imposes tougher requirements on hedge funds. The $233 billion-plus ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2010
... economy. More uncertainty was lifted from the market late in the day, when the Senate passed and sent to President Barack Obama the financial regulation bill. A series of disappointing economic reports had sent the Dow Jones industrials down nearly 100 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2010
... legislation. The bill heads to votes by both chambers in the Democratic-controlled Congress before going to President Barack Obama's desk to be signed. On the economic front, the Commerce Department revised lower its estimate of first-quarter growth ...