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...South Korea trade deal and promised "a change from the U.S. policy approach [toward China] of the past eight years," including possible new restrictions on Chinese imports. The deteriorating American economy and job picture will make it nearly impossible for Obama to shift and become a free trader. Yet a regionwide free-trade area will eventually be Asia's future. Obama needs to embrace that, while simultaneously investing in American job retraining and working with internationalist elements of his party to convince average Democrats that, in the long run, retreating from trade will mean retreating from U.S. power. If Obama...
...disillusioned and in no state to make the transition from rhetoric to reality. John Key has had no such problems. Having led the National Party to an emphatic triumph in New Zealand's Nov. 8 general election, ending nine years of Labour rule under Helen Clark, the former currency trader was pressing for a quick handover so he could attend the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders' summit in Peru from Nov. 22. The day after Key's National-led government was sworn in, he flew out for APEC, after which he'll head to London for talks with British counterpart...
This deleveraging also occurred among investment banks. The failings of major financial institutions have directly fueled the decline in oil prices. Many banks' internal commodities-trading funds - Citigroup, for instance, owns Phibro, a major commodities trader - have generated excellent returns over the past few years...
...Management hedge fund--boisterous, unchecked risk-taking eventually rushed back in. "In times like this, people do listen to risk managers," says John Hull, professor of derivatives and risk management at the University of Toronto. "The problem is, times will become good again, and then you listen to the trader who is making a big profit...
Fine, but that doesn't mean I was a good trader. Whatever success I've had in investing has been by finding things that are cheap, buying them and owning them for years. I don't sit around trading. Brokers don't particularly like...