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Super funds raise stakes in US investments to US$1.44tn

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2025
... US infrastructure, real estate and private equity. At an event to celebrate BHP's 140th anniversary this week, US Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum said: "To the country of Australia - thank you. With your funds, the investment you're making ...

Trump orders creation of US sovereign wealth fund

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2025
... Trump has signed an executive order calling for the creation of a sovereign wealth fund. The executive order directs US secretary of the treasury Scott Bessent, who was sworn in last week by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh - nominated by Trump ...

Making a splash: The economic impact of AUKUS

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2024
... the Middle East nearing boiling point and the US unabashedly postulating China as an economic and military threat. US secretary of the air force Frank Kendall said last month: "I've been closely watching the evolution of [China's] military for ...

Yellen forebodes stagflation risks

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2022
In Bonn, Germany, US secretary of the treasury Janet Yellen has called the global economic outlook challenging and uncertain; stagflation effects have depressed output and spending, she added. Yellen said the US understood when Russia invaded Ukraine ...

Chief economist update: The US inflation dilemma

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2021
... cowards." - Shane Patton Did current US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen (under Biden's administration) just call former US Secretary Lawrence Summers (under Clinton's) a coward? I refer of course to Madame Yellen's defence of President Biden's ginormous ...

Hong Kong financial hub status at risk

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, has issued a stern warning to Beijing, threatening the status of Hong Kong as one of the world's biggest financial hubs. In response to the Hong Kong protests, Pompeo said Hong Kong is no long autonomous from mainland ...

US shutdown slowing pension payments

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 14 OCT 2013
... The continuing US shutdown is beginning to slow pension payments, with fears growing some payments could stop. The US secretary for the Veterans Administration Benefits and Services, Eric Shinseki, appeared end last week before the Congress committee ...

OMTs - one year on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
... hand smoke when the Syrian War ensue. Yes, it's looking a lot like a matter of when not if.A It has become so after US Secretary of State John Kerry demanded that Syrian president Assad make pigs fly.A "He could turn over every single bit of his chemical ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2013
... intervention in Syria added to concerns over when the US Federal Reserve would taper a massive stimulus program. US Secretary of State John Kerry warned Syria it would face action over the "moral obscenity" of a chemical weapons attack, as expectations ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2013
... Industrial Average dropped 64.05 points overnight, or 0.43 per cent, to close at 14,946.46. The sell-off followed US Secretary of State John Kerry's comments that the use of chemical weapons in Syria was a "moral obscenity" and that President Barack ...
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