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Another Budget, another promised surplus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAY 2017
A Budget here, and a Budget there, Budget, Budget, everywhere a Budget. Yes Virginia, it's Budget overload, there's wall to wall coverage of the Australian Federal government's 2017/18 Budget - before, during and after - its big reveal on the evening ...

Obamacare one, Trump nil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2017
... an experience that leads to an even better healthcare plan." - Remarks by President Trump on the Health Care Bill. Yes Virginia, US President Donald Trump learned a lot last week. The unfolding events did, however, strengthen the credibility of the democratic ...

Trump and Brexit comes back to haunt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2016
... these days. These two sources of current market uncertainty were sown sometime back around the middle of last year. Yes Virginia. It was on 7 May 2015 when David Cameron and his Conservative Party won (with an outright majority) what was then thought ...

Slow, slower, slowing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2016
... big and small - are all designed to lift growth and inflation at home, they are also beggaring their neighbours. Yes Virginia, they're called "QE's" or "LTRO's" or "OMT's" or Quantitative and Qualitative Easing with a Negative Interest Rate" or "New ...

Australian elections just gave uncertainty a top up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2016
... Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) declared that it could take up to two weeks before the final results are known. Yes Virginia, we've joined the "United Kingdoom" and Spain in limboland. Not only for the next two weeks while awaiting Australia's ...

Australia on top

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2016
... annual growth rate relative to its peers, to quote ol' blue eyes, "Top of the list, King of the hill, A number one..." Yes Virginia, the Australian economy grew faster than the majors in the March quarter, with real GDP expanding by 3.1% over the year. ...

Minutes to disaster

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2016
Here we go again folks! It's back on again. Yes Virginia, not unless you've spent all of last week touring Mars would you not notice that the US Federal Reserve had been busily preparing planet earth for another lift... as soon as next month and by ...

No more tears?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2016
... but exactly two weeks after, the sun is shining, the sky is blue and everything's looking wonderful for me and you. Yes Virginia, financial markets - or more accurately, risk assets -- have gone up, up and away in the week ended 15 April -- the very ...

Janet's words stronger than BOJ and ECB bazookas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2016
... index. The index jumped to a reading of 51.8 in March after spending five months in contraction territory (below 50). Yes Virginia, thanks to a cheaper US dollar, the manufacturing sector has recovered and if the seven point jump in new orders to 58.3 ...

Four bazookas and a phrase

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2016
... stupid (or what markets presumed stupid), "...we don't anticipate that it will be necessary to reduce further rates." Yes Virginia, this single phrase brought things undone. The equity markets retreated with the Stoxx 50 index closing 1.5% lower from ...