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Fears Volcker Rule will hit sovereign bond trading

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2012
... they fear could weaken trading volumes for their sovereign bonds. The Volcker Rule was introduced by the Obama administration following the Global Financial Crisis to prevent investment banks trading on their account and owning, investing in or sponsoring ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2011
... added a paltry 54,000 jobs in May, one-quarter of the February-April pace, intensifying the challenge to the Obama administration to get the economy growing. LONDON - European stock markets closed mostly firmer on Friday as the euro rallied strongly ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 FEB 2011
... trading lower on worries that rising tensions in Cairo could turn violent. The upwards move was also helped by Obama administration's launch on Friday of a major shake-up of the US housing market, proposing that state-backed lenders are wound up and ...

Middle East mole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2011
... mole of tepid economic growth with the twin hammers of the US Federal Reserve's US$600 billion QE2 and the Obama administration's fiscal largesse. So far these twin hammers appear to be doing their job. The S&P 500 index and the Dow now trade at levels ...

Rewind and replay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 SEP 2010
... right mate!" But while risk assets hate volatility - bad for equities -- those in tune with the Fed's and the Obama administration's current way of thinking would have noted by now that the odds favour further equity market gains. All else being equal ...

Home trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2010
... to know that to reduce or clear the number of unwanted homes prices have to fall, or for the Fed and the Obama administration to re-stimulate the housing sector or for the economy to grow strong enough to create jobs - or all of the above. Because of ...

Not a jobless double-dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2010
... uncertain", the GFC still fresh in their minds and the uncertainty over regulations being cooked up by the Obama administration (health care reform?). But with rising profits, they're bound to spread the joy - either through increased dividends, increased ...

Feeding the fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2010
... momentum in business activity. And remember the US labour market -- that scourge of the Federal Reserve and the Obama administration? There was good news there over the weekend. US non-farm payrolls increased by 290,000 in April -- much, much more than ...

End game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2010
... economies of rising commodity prices thanks to China. Neither will most Asian countries. So for good measure, the Obama administration has enlisted troop reinforcements -- all Americans of course or at least US funded institutions. Paul Krugman and Fred ...

Sentiment stirs bad mood

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2010
... with the US labour market still soft. Not with the Fed starting to normalise policy settings. Not with the Obama administration poised to raise taxes. These are just some of the problems the US consumer has to navigate as they head to the bright blue ...