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Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi, Oi, Oi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
... Review (AFR) on 24 Feb - yes less than four months ago - "$A dollar to hit US66Ac: Deutsche Bank" - and the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) published on the same day - "Fears Australian dollar facing 'benign collapse' to $US66Ac". That time, the A$ was trending ...

Nothing's good enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2014
... growth was mainly all due to the 1.4 percentage point contribution from net exports to the economy. The Sydney Morning Herald prints on its website, "Economists were caught off guard by the pace of the export growth, saying the mining boom had shifted ...

NAB and FSC tight-lipped on Hockey meetings

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
... involvement in Treasurer Joe Hockey's cash-for-meetings program reported by Fairfax this morning. Both The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age this morning reported that Joe Hockey is offering meetings with himself in return for political donations through ...

HESTA non-committal on Transfield divestment

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014
... their retirement funds invested in Manus Island detention centre, which Transfield runs. Speaking to the Sydney Morning Herald on Wednesday, the ASU's NSW/ACT president Sally McManus said ASU's contingent of welfare workers were "not impressed that Transfield ...

A-dollar zero point six six

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
... fearless forecast that the Australian dollar would be worth 0.66 dollar-US by the end of next year. The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) even reproduced the charts Adam used to back up his forecast... and they looked oh so convincibable. Wanna look? Look ...

Careful of the recession you wish for

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
... the gloomiest forecast of them all. Recession talks are beginning to be the thing du jour. Last month, the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) reported Bank of America Merrill Lynch Australia chief economist Saul Eslake warning, "we could be in recession within ...

Green, green grass of home

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2013
... Dunnin - Rainmaker's Director of Editorial & Research - emailed me yesterday Malcolm Maiden's piece in the Sydney Morning Herald titled, "Why the Dow peaks and the ASX doesn't?" That didn't take long did it? Not even 24 hours have passed since the Dow ...

Coming in 2014: Aussie recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2012
... 25 years plus of experience in the field of proprietary trading and alternative investment. So when the Sydney Morning Herald quotes him saying that, "I think we will have a huge drop in GDP (gross domestic product) in early 2013, everything being equal ...

Variant Perceptions' variant perception

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012
... envious POMs, the Australian economy is taller and theirs is just poppy. But not from ones of our own. The Sydney Morning Herald had this headline only yesterday, "Warning: after boom it'll be Dutch and go" and The Age has, "Optimism may just be wishful ...

Union members an industry fund minority

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011
... attack weapon. Dr Shae McCrystal, a senior lecturer in employment law at the University of Sydney, told the Sydney Morning Herald this week that unions still perform similar roles as they did 30 years ago.