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China's mean regression

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2014
... importantly, what happens next. While we wait... and wish and hope and pray (not long now), there's an article in 'The Economist' magazine titled -- "Even dragons tire" -- I found interesting. As you would have intuit from the title, it talks about China's ...

China's communist and it works

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
... requirement ratio this year." It's part of the Politburo's aim at rebalancing its domestic economy which, according to The Economist A is already happening: "Consumption is at last edging out investment as the economy's main engine. Household consumption ...

Chumbawamba rules

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
... to shake hands. Perhaps this is because Putin wants to take back one state at a time... maybe after Ukraine. As The Economist magazine puts it, "Mr Putin believes that his own political future depends on the defence of Russia's regional influence-that ...

Indian optimism

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014
... despite the unemployment rate at a high 9.9% (2012), its budget deficit predicted to reach 5.2% of GDP this year by The Economist magazine - from 4.5% in FY 2013/14 - and stubbornly high inflation.A Annual Indian CPI inflation bounced up to 8.6% in April ...

Help is on its way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2014
If three weeks (almost) ago European Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi still gave himself a bit of wiggle room not to act (or defer action) - "after having seen the Staff projections that will come out in early June" - he did none of that when ...

OMFG! Australia could lose an A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2014
... at the table of all still AAA-rated countries below - patiently compiled by yours truly using data from the IMF, The Economist, Trading Economics and the CIA Factbook. Doesn't look like Australia's government finances are that dire is it? Wait again! ...

Catching the big wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2014
... signed a trade liberalisation deal with Singapore and Taiwan on 7 November 2013. Asia bagged! And before this, 'The Economist' magazine published on 21 September 2013 that, "Twenty years ago its exports to China were negligible. Today China is Africa's ...

Traffic light trade

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014
... distortions.A She'll be right when spring breaks. This appears to be the same conclusion reached by the just-released "The Economist/FT Global Business Barometer" survey: "THE outlook for business is positively sunny, according to the latest Economist/FT ...

Buy me a house

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013
... Data-Rismark, home prices across Australia's eight states and territories have increased 5.3% in the year to July. The Economist magazine has an interactive chart that compares global house prices - nominal, real, against average income, against rent ...

Super board quality compromised over pay rates

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013
... effectiveness according to law firm Corrs Chambers Westgarth chief executive John Denton. Speaking as part of a panel at The Economist Bellwether 2013 Australian Forum in Sydney this week, Denton said that despite Australia's superannuation funds being ...