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Making a splash: The economic impact of AUKUS

KARREN VERGARA | WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2024

... US$820 billion in 2023, non-profit USAFacts evaluated, peaking in 2010 at US$964.4 billion when former President Barrack Obama was in charge. Congress has shelled out US$175 billion to the Ukraine since Russia's war in 2022. Some 30,000 civilians ...

Billionaires targeted in Twitter bitcoin scam

ELIZA BAVIN | FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2020

... hacked to promote a bitcoin scam. The official Twitter accounts of many notable people, including former President Barrack Obama and Presidential candidate Joe Biden, were hacked to promote a bitcoin scam to their millions of followers. The tweets were ...

Volcker Rule tweak gets green light

KANIKA SOOD | THURSDAY, 10 OCT 2019

... after former Fed chair Paul Volcker who proposed the restrictions on speculative trading by big banks as a part of Barrack Obama's economic advisory panel. Obama endorsed it in 2010 and the five agencies approved final regulations in 2013.

Shanghai-HK Connect connects China to the world

BENJAMIN ONG | TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2014

... news syndrome like Wall Street had been. Or is it the connect between Chinese president Xi Jinping and US president Barrack Obama at the APEC summit or his handshake connect with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe? Ahh yes, Virginia, you know where I'm ...

The song remains the same

BENJAMIN ONG | FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012

... land of stars and stripes resulted in, well, very much the same as it was the day before the elections. President Barrack Obama remains president. The Democrats control the Senate and the GOP dominates Congress. Yet Wall Street seems to have fallen off ...

Markets await promising China leadership change

MARK SMITH | THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2012

... promoting market efficiency and putting an end to fears of a hard landing, according to Threadneedle's Gigi Chan. As Barrack Obama prepares for four more years in office in the US, the world's second largest economy is now preparing itself for what is ...

Obama victory ignites fiscal cliff fears

MARK SMITH | THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2012

A political quarrel surrounding the US fiscal cliff looks set to become the focal point for investors after Barrack Obama's narrow victory in the presidential race. President Obama's priority is to secure a budget deal with the US Congress to avoid ...

Reliance on improving global economy threatens big-four in 2013

MARK SMITH | THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2012

... their fortunes are hitched to an expected strengthening global economy following the re-election of US President Barrack Obama yesterday, says Ernst & Young's Paul Siviour. Despite combined cash earnings of more than $25 billion underlying the healthy ...

Obama punts on US$300bn jobs package

ALEX DUNNIN | THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2011

US president Barrack Obama has defied critics who thought his climbdown last month with Congress over the debt ceiling would make him gun-shy, by proposing a jobs stimulus package that is nearly as big as the entire Australian commonwealth annual budget. ...

Grinch vs Santa

BENJAMIN ONG | THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2010

... tax cut extension compromise. Santa repeats, the US economy is on track for recovery. This was ensured by BO's (Barrack Obama not Ben Ong) announcement yesterday of the tax extension deal. Americans will now not have less money come the New Year. Plus ...

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