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Beyond 6000

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2017
... it reached a high of 5908.08 points that year. The global financial crisis, the European sovereign debt crisis, the Arab spring, and China's slowdown (which battered Australia's mining sector) prevented the index from revisiting this level over the next ...

MYEFO: Surplus of promises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 DEC 2016
... Sure there were lots of negative externalities back then - financial markets were volatile on concerns over Grexit, Arab spring, weak global growth and topped by an expensive A$ - but Swan's single-minded commitment to get the budget back into surplus ...

Gloom and doom news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... the economies of the United States, China and emerging markets were expanding, commodity prices were rising, the "Arab Spring" of the first quarter of 2011 has calmed and so did anxieties regarding the devastating effects of the tsunami/nuclear meltdown ...

Volatile like its 2011

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
... - could be dragged down into the gutters... the Fed said so itself. But this time, it's a bit different. While the Arab Spring brought uncertainty in the Middle East and raised the oil price back then, oil prices have been dropping despite the current ...

Wall Street slips on oil slick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... kick Saddam's butt). Gulf War II in 2003 sent oil prices on the hop by 49.37% between November 2002 and March 2003. "Arab Spring" of 2011. The price of WTI crude jumped from around US$80 a barrel to a high US$114 in April 2011. Through all these - and ...

Ghosts? What ghosts?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2013
... the past, bond yields and the cost of insuring against default in the peripheral countries spiked. The ghost of the Arab Spring. Egypt's military has removed President Mohamed Mursi after he refused to step down. The military also suspended the constitution ...

Q3 will work

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
... its end in June last year. Sure, it was a paltry gain but consider the challenges that faced the market last year - Arab Spring, Japanese earthquake/tsunami/nuclear disaster, USA no longer AAA, European crisis hitting Spain and Italy, the BRICs and emerging ...

Playing with a loaded dice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2012
... markets were surging, markets found something to worry about, it was Dubai World and its debt blowout. Then it was the Arab Spring and Kaddafi in early 2011. There were also North Korea and Iran. They seem like teenie-weenie small beers now, don't they? ...

Perfect timing for a "perfect storm" alert

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
... troubles and worries that developed since the global financial crisis to date - Europe sovereign debt crisis, the Arab Spring (and surging oil prices), the Japanese tsunami/nuclear reactor meltdown, the US losing its AAA credit rating, North Korea, Iran ...

Managers confident on value as China PMI contracts

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012
... quarters." John Vail, chief global strategist and head of global asset allocation at Nikko AM, said that following The Arab Spring, which sparked a high degree of fear among the Party leadership, the focus had been on improving income level parity by ...
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