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Everything but the kitchen sink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... effective 11 June 2014. The message being it doesn't pay to save - or rather, you'll have to pay the ECB for depositing money with us......go out there and lend it if you want your money to earn more money. This is exactly what the next set of ECB give-aways ...

Losing shine

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2014
... that the US Federal Reserve's massive printing of US dollars, sparked worries over future inflation and distrust over fiat money - and continued strong growth (and therefore, demand) in China and India -- had some 'experts' predicting gold 10,000. Just ...

Growth and consequence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2014
... happens GDP growth would surge in the first quarter as Mr. and Mrs. Watanabe stock up on everything and anything they're money can buy before the consumption tax rises from 5% to 8% (starting on 1 April). It'll be easy peasy for the BOJ if growth were ...

Timely market surge for a tough budget

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
... stock markets that we're already halfway through May - halfway through the month that's statistically biased towards losing money. Market action over the past 24 hours shows that most have not gone away and those who did are coming back. And this, despite ...

Beggars at war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2014
... is... However, both the yen and the yuan's still up -- 3.3% and 0.5%, respectively - from their 2014 lows versus Uncle Sam's money to date. That's right! That's because the Fed is not taking these moves lying down. Janet Yellen may have said a lotta ...

Virgin Money cops fine for misleading direct insurance ads

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2014
Virgin Money Australia has been forced to pay $30,600 in penalties after some of its advertisements fell foul of the regulator. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) issued three infringement notices for misleading online and television ...

Bouncy bouncy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014
... needed." We could discuss, debate, discourse, disagree to agree, agree to disagree about the rationality/effectiveness of CB money printing/asset purchases but at the end of the day... we can only play the hand we're dealt with. But while the picture ...

Front-runners

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
... focused on the boring work of buying good things and owning them for a long time." ( http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/02/your-money/what-michael-lewiss-book-has-to-do-with-your-money.html ) Makes sense! Who cares about the half a cent you miss out on a ...

BRICs without BRI

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014
... I'm sure the BRIs didn't either. That's why they failed to restructure/reform their economies when the going was good and money was being shoved left, right and centre down their throats.

No guarantee

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
... would force shadow bankers to allocate capital optimally as they could no longer count on the PBOC to guarantee the shadow money they lent would be repaid. The take-away here is that China's slowly (but surely) carrying out its plan to liberalise its ...