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Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2015
... following the Saudi-led air assault on Shi'ite rebels in Yemen. "What seems to have got tongues wagging... is potentially Iran coming back online with a lot of their production," OptionsXpress market analyst Ben Le Brun said. By noon (AEDT) Woodside ...

From the mouths of Feds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015
... prices; weakening US economic activity/re-strengthening US economic activity and the latest... Germanwings and Saudi Arabia/Iran/Yemen, et farting cetera. But at the end of the day, it's the Fed and what it does to the fed funds rate that'll be the ultimate ...

Sliding oil price would stop the slide in the oil price

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
... result, they can withstand a low oil price quite comfortably. On the other hand countries such as Nigeria, Venezuela and Iran are hard up. Their oil industries have less favourable costs. They cannot afford for the oil price to sag as it has been doing ...

BNP Paribas board approves $9bn fine

AFP  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
... will also plead guilty to avoid an otherwise certain trial for the bank's deals from 2002 to 2009 with countries like Cuba, Iran and Sudan that are blacklisted by the US. The investigation probed more than $US100 billion ($A108.20 billion) of transactions ...

BNP, US prosecutors near $US9bn settlement

AFP  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
... regulators and BNP Paribas executives are trying to hash out a settlement following charges the bank breached US sanctions against Iran, Sudan and Cuba between 2002 and 2009 by handling $US30 billion ($A32.46 billion) worth of transactions with them. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2013
The Australian market looks set to open flat despite gains on international markets after Iran struck a landmark deal on its nuclear program that will see sanctions eased on the key oil exporter. The accord reached over the weekend in Geneva sent crude ...

Right direction

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2013

The weekend that could change the world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013
... something more sinister.A We're talking superpowers with nuclear, chemical and biological armaments - Syria, Russia, China, Iran on one side, the US -- maybe France (and maybe, the next Australian PM) -- on the other. The biggest game changer at the ...

Prepare for take-off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2013
... the unknown.A Will it escalate to increased tensions with Russia and China - Syria's wing men?A And oh, let's not forget Iran - Syria's other wing man.A Will it make good on its threat to send missiles Israel's way if the US attacks?A Will the escalation ...

William Blair targets super fund investors with 'game theory'

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2013
... asset prices. He says portfolio building today needs to consider the instability of the current geopolitical environment. Iran and Israel, China, Japan, and the eurozone are just some of the multiple players whose agendas can complicate the pursuit of ...