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Insult me, insult you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2012
Arrrgh! Doesn't this unending Greco-German tragedy make you just wanna tear your hair - strand by strand - from its roots? Yes, you, yes, yes you, Virginia. For I still like to keep the very few ones remaining loyal to my scalp. And if not for its potential ...

Bankruptcy could be bliss

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
"Don't go talking too loud, you'll cause a landslide, Mr. Jones." - The Bee Gees, New York Mining Disaster The optimism that warmed financial markets for the best part of the first six weeks of 2012 has been dented by the comeback of the European sovereign ...

Forecasts shmorecasts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012
We're doomed (again)! Oh-em-gee! "IMF slashes growth forecasts!" This was the last piece of news I saw before I went to bed last night and started snoring. Yeah, yeah I thought. Sure, sure. Somehow it didn't give me the same nerve-wracking punch that ...

Priced in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2012
... lowered to AA+ the issuer credit rating of the EFSF, as well as the issue ratings on its long-term debt securities." Oh-em-gee! The EFSF would find it difficult to raise cheap funds to bailout those European governments that need bailing out at best ...

PIGS!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2011
... Finland - face a one-notch downgrade while the remaining nine are staring at a two-step markdown. And for the final oh-em-gee moment, S&P also placed Europe's bailout fund - the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) - on watch for a possible long-term ...

Tell someone who cares

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2011
... only weeks before created angst and anxiety from New York to Rio and old London town. There was news indicating that "oh-em-gee" China is slowing. The China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing (CFLP) reported that its PMI fell to 49 in November from ...

Waiting to exhale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011
Regular gentle readers would know by now that today's heading has in no way any relation to the 1995 romance film of the same title but to the goings-on in the financial markets. Equity markets didn't do much overnight. The S&P 500 was up a little ...

Australian Unity revenue reaches $1bn

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2011
Australian Unity Group reported annual revenue of $1 billion for the first time in its results for the year ending June 30, 2011. The company reported a 34% boost in operating earnings to $31.7 million, while profit after tax grew 50% on the previous ...

AUI Retirement Village Fund makes first acquisition

RACHEL DAVIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2011
Australian Unity's Retirement Village Property Fund has made its first purchase, the Geelong Grove Retirement Village in Grovedale, Victoria. The Australian Unity Retirement Village Property Fund was established to provide investors access to the growing ...

Greed is good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
"I started a joke, which started the whole world crying..." -Bee Gees Just when the Fed appeared to have quieted things down, someone screamed, 'boo'. And in the current jittery state the financial markets are in - investors will shoot first and ask ...