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Biggest Loser Part 2

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
... economies it will claim, the more pronounced the pain. And so it was...and so it shall be. Australia is not, repeat not, in recession...yet. Despite the prevalence of gloomy forecasts and surveys, domestic demand continues to hold up well as evidenced ...

The biggest loser

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2009
... the race becomes one of a contest of 'The Biggest Loser.' Like its counterparts, the global financial crisis and the recession are putting downward pressure on Eurozone company profits as businesses faced falling demand for their products and services ...

No bad news is no news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2009
... full employment at 5.5 per cent. This is good news and reinforces our view that Australia may yet be able to dodge a recession - just like it did when it avoided the contagion from the 1998 Asian financial crisis and the 2002 US recession. Yet others ...

Plusses and minuses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2009
... the lowest reading in the survey's 20-year history and even lower than the confidence reading recorded in the 1990/91 recession. The survey's measure of forward orders, trading conditions, profitability, export sales and employment all remained in negative ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2009
... powered by the banking sector on expectation the US congress will approve President Barack Obama's plan to stimulate the recession-hit US economy. In London the FTSE 100 index added 15.74 points, or 0.37 per cent, to close at 4,307.61. FRANKFURT - The ...

IRESS eyes Asia

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2009
Homegrown tech company IRESS Market Technology is defying the market recession and is expanding its presence in Asia. IRESS is adding several Asian markets to its webIRESS online equity information and trading platform. During the first half of 2009 ...

Bad news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2009
... disappearance of 540,000 jobs. The latest figures take the total number of Americans 'let go' to 3.6 million since the recession began in December 2007. Is this the beginning of the end? Given the momentum of the recession that is sweeping all around ...

Focus on the good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2009
... the year. If ever there was one single piece of good news for the equity market, this is the one. Like in very other recession, the hard times force companies to shed the fat in their organizations and come out at the other side leaner and meaner. Sure ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2009
... England slashed British interest rates by half a percentage point to a fresh historic low of 1.0 per cent to battle recession. The European Central Bank held rates steady at 2.0 per cent, but analysts forecast another cut next month. London's FTSE index ...

Damned if you do

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2009
... Australians cannot be faulted of course. Gen X and Yers grew up in the land of abundance. Many have not experienced a recession. Everything that could be had was easy to be had. It had been 18 long years since Australia suffered a debilitating recession ...