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Lucky, lucky, lucky

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2009
... ago in January - Access Economics was even quoted saying, "Conditions are worsening very rapidly. This is not just a recession - it will be the sharpest deceleration Australia's economy has ever seen." Well look again! The Australian Bureau of Statistics ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2009
... weak opening to close at another fresh high for 2009 as data showed the economy remaining on the path to recovery from recession. The Commerce Department reported the economy shrank at a one per cent annual pace in the second quarter, leaving unrevised ...

Day of silence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2009
... The big economies of Germany, Japan, France and the smaller ones, Hongkong and Singapore have already stepped out of recession. Others are getting there. As at the second quarter, the US is just 0.1 per cent away. US data releases overnight provided ...

Almost Per-fecta

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2009
... public's angst at Ben for failing to stop the collapse of Lehman, which led to the financial market rout, which led to the recession, which led to them losing their homes and their jobs...and then giving their money to the banks and other financial institutions. ...

U V W X Y Z

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2009
... Roubini was back in the headlines after publishing his op-ed in the Financial Times entitled, "The risk of a double-dip recession is rising". After acknowledging that the "freefall of economic activity has eased," he went on to try and answer three questions ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2009
... run of business contraction and boosting hopes that Europe is emerging from the crisis after France and Germany exited recession earlier this month. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index London's benchmark FTSE 100 index jumped up 107.05 points, or 2.26 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2009
... 4,391.3 points. NEW YORK - US stocks rose for the third day running on Thursday after data suggested recovery from a long recession. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 70.89 points (0.76 per cent) to 9350.05 in closing trades. The tech-heavy Nasdaq ...

Recession over! Sigh!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2009
... has started." This is the world according to IMF chief economist Olivier Blanchard. Or read another way, the global recession is over. My immediate reaction on reading this was a deep sigh. No, not a sigh of relief. But a sigh of disappointment. Greatly ...

Don't let the bears out

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2009

Fear not a rate rise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2009
... went from doom, to bad, to less bad, to good and now better. So much so that even those insisting that an Australian recession will be forthcoming just a few months back, have recanted. They have no choice but do a backflip in light of the overwhelming ...