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Thank you RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2009
... the groundwork for re-stocking - and so growth in industrial production -- in subsequent quarters. This becomes especially true following reports of continued growth in retail sales and new home sales in January. Yes the global economy is crumbling before ...

The Ides of March

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
... assets. This time, institutions with toxic assets are still alive - well, gasping - and buying above or below the assets' true market value would create its own problems. Buy too high and the taxpayers suffer. Buy too low and the suffering institutions ...

GFC in a fortnight

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2009
... investors. But not many had the courage to load up on stocks back then -- not when everything looked doom and gloom. The same is true today. Better miss out on a few dollars than catch a falling knife.

Riccardian equivalence redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2009
... remain in many markets' and predicted that full recovery of the US economy would take more than 2-3 years. Bu this would be true only 'if actions taken by the administration, the Congress, and the Federal Reserve are successful.' In the meantime, Dusty ...

Moral hazard on Main Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
Yes we can! And again, Yes we can! In trying to make this slogan come true, US President Barack Obama has taken the concept of moral hazard from Wall Street to Main Street. Just one day after he signed his autograph on a piece of paper turning the US$787 ...

Good Bank Bad Bank

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2009
... illiquid and toxic assets of financial institutions. This plan is expected to be announced next week. If the rumours are true, the Obama administration maybe hoping that this bad bank will succeed the same way that the Resolution and Trust Corporation ...

Confidence yardstick rises

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
... remains to be seen whether these reallocations represent changes in long-term convictions about the value of those assets. True, previous monthly data turned out to be false alarms. From a base level of 69.5 points in early 2008, the index went on an ...

Janus banks on maths for success

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
Melbourne-based Janus Capital Asia is staying true to its quantitative analysis investment strategies to win mandates this year. John Landau, head of Australian operations at Janus Capital, there's been "a lot of strong interest" across Janus and Enhanced ...

Obama: he's the man

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
... or vision of those in high office, but because we the people have remained faithful to the ideals of our forbearers, and true to our founding documents. So it has been. So it must be with this generation of Americans. That we are in the midst of crisis ...

Self-fulfilling prophecy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2009
... small 0.1 per cent in the unemployment rate to 4.5 per cent, this is a much better result than what the headlines suggest. True, the massive loss in full-time jobs in December carries negative implications for the economy as a whole and its near term ...