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Survivor: the Philippines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 NOV 2013
... Boxing Day tsunami that wrought deaths and disaster in 15 countries in Southeast Asia and Africa proved this. Hurricane Katrina that devastated southeastern America in August 2005 proved this. So did the earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand on February ...

Uncertainty goes uncertainty comes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2012
... from Tropical Storm Irene was about twice as large as the initial estimates had suggested, and the damage from Hurricane Katrina was about four times as large." Hurricane Katrina left behind a damage bill of US$112.4 bil back in August 2005 while Hurricane ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
... could hit Y25 trillion ($A304.9 billion), more than double the 1995 Kobe quake and nearly four times more than Hurricane Katrina. Stocks started higher after the Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.56 per cent on Wednesday as industrial and mining companies ...

Japan shall overcome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2011
... financial crisis of 1997/98, September 11 terrorist attacks on the US in 2001, the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the GFC in 2008 -- spooked and tested investors' nerves. All turned out to be great buying opportunities in ...

Super funds eye catastrophic investing

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2009
... investing in insurance-linked strategies rather than on insurance and reinsurance stocks. For example, during Hurricane Katrina in 2005, many insurance and reinsurance stocks lost as much as 80 per cent of their value over a time period while Credit ...

Not a happy EOFYS on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2009
... extrapolate to a return to gloom and doom. Consumer confidence shakes even in boom years. Back in September 2005 when Hurricane Katrina hit the US, this indicator dropped by a full 18 points from the previous month even as the unemployment rate was at ...

Three steadies and a cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2008
... investors will also keep a wary eye on Hurricane Gustav, which is expected to be as bad, if not worse, than Hurricane Katrina. Japan: This week will be a relatively quiet one for Japan in terms of economic data. Japanese capital spending and labour cash ...

Inflation outlook dim

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2008
... percent and the core by 0.2 percent. The gain in the headline CPI was the largest since September 2005 when Hurricane Katrina devastated the US. Excluding that event, it was the largest increase since June 1982. Energy prices surged by 6.6 percent with ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2006
... about inflation risks and overshadowed optimism about corporate profits. Oil hit $US70 for the first time since Hurricane Katrina as worries increased about oil producer Iran's nuclear standoff with the West. Gold prices in New York hit a 25-year high. ...

World markets getting risk averse: State Street

... causes, Shea, believes it may be due to how central banks have surprised capital markets by their non-response to Hurricane Katrina [as they seem more concerned about containing inflation]. "We think it was a lack of a central bank response [from the ...
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