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Nikkei-225 cracking
21 Mar 2011 8:00 AM by The Straits' Times Blog - On The Money

My friends said I was very lucky. As of today, I am exactly back from Japan for a month. Just four weeks ago, I was happily in the now disaster-struck Sendai region, bathing in the hot springs and enjoying the excellent food served up by the inns..

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BOJ's mighty intervention
18 Mar 2011 11:38 AM by The Straits' Times Blog - On The Money

In three days, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) has poured enough money into the financial system to make the printer trigger-happy US central bank blush. Between Monday and Wednesday, BOJ injected a triggering 28 trillion yen ($466 billion)...

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Corporate accountability
15 Mar 2011 10:14 AM by The Straits' Times Blog - On The Money

Goh Eng Yeow examines the wider implications of an independent director getting a jail sentence for his role in misleading investors...

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Knowns and Unknowns
10 Mar 2011 3:47 PM by The Straits' Times Blog - On The Money

FORMER US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has an amazingly simple way of describing risks. There are known unknowns and unknown unknowns, he declared in his recent memoir which was aptly named Known and Unknown. Now, Libya is an unknown unknown.

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The Libyan question
27 Feb 2011 6:45 AM by The Straits' Times Blog - On The Money

FOR two straight days, Wall Street’s widely watched Dow Jones Industrial Index fell by a triple-digit number. It brought to an end an astounding seven-week rally, as traders reacted to the unfolding events in Libya whose embattled strongman &

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