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The great unwind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013
"...And then I go and spoil it all by sayin' something stupid like 'we'll taper soon'." Sorry to spoil your immortal classic Frank (Sinatra) but "I love you" just doesn't apply to Ben Bernanke right now. Not with the trashing the equity markets, the ...

Empty orchestra

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2013
... - that is, to expect bond yields to rise as the economy improves. Now I'm really, truly convinced that Japan has this classic tendency to shoot itself in the foot just when the going's getting good. It did so in the mid-1990's when it nearly doubled ...

Collapse does not signal end of gold party

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2013
... said they had evidence to suggest that traders had driven the recent fall in the price of gold. "In our view it was a classic case of speculative investors taking advantage of gold-negative fundamental news and technical break-points to drive a self-fulfilling ...

Template of a bail-in?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2013
... country concerned and no models or templates are used." No, it's not a blueprint... it's a one-off! Yes Virginia, the classic "I didn't say that!" and clarifying statements whenever a Euro authority's pronouncement is met with market malcontent -- the ...

Falling BRICs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013
Now wasn't that just classic entertainment? I doubt that even the best of the best comedic minds could come up with a farce such as the one the Australian Labor Party delivered for our viewing, hearing and reading pleasure yesterday. For after all the ...

So stupid it could actually make money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2013
... all by announcing saying something stupid like "we'll tax you I love you"." My apologies for messing up your immortal classic Frank (Sinatra) but it's been playing in my head since the clever people at the IMF, the EU and the ECB -- and oh, also in Germany ...

Women in Super raises $14.8m for cancer research

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2013
... group Women in Super raised $14.8 million to breast cancer research through its annual event "Women in Super Mother's Day Classic", the organisation announced yesterday. This year the event will be held on May 12 in all capital cities and regional locations ...

Trapnell rejects 'no way out' stance by licencees

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
... check-in any time you like but you can never leave: Synchron director Don Trapnell has used the immortal lines from the classic 1970s Hotel California hit to reaffirm his rejection of licensee heavy-handedness dealing with advisers who want out. He claims ...

There's no bubble in bond markets: Tyndall AM

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2013
... capital losses within the asset class during 2013 but Bridges insists that the market is not showing the symptoms of a classic bubble. "In essence, bubbles occur when prices continue to rise because enough investors believe that they can buy securities ...

Propensity for foot shooting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2013