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C'mon, Aussie, c'mon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
... month maybe just that... speculation. But if they do, then you can be sure growth will suffer. Not least for those highly indebted countries in the periphery that are already tightening fiscal expenditures. There's Australia's link to commodity prices... ...

Oil outlook flips on economy flop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011
... curb overheating is working. Then it marched to Europe as the European sovereign debt crisis again reared its heavily indebted head. Moody's - yes, people still listen to what they say - cut Spain's debt rating to Aa2 from Aa1. And coming on the heels ...

World peace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2010
... stating what is currently in train and perhaps an indirect way of asking the financial markets for more time for highly indebted countries to get their houses in order. In the words of US President Obama, "... we can't all rush to the exits at the same ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2010
Australian shares are set to open lower after Wall Street fell on Friday as a downgrade of Spain's credit rating added to worries about the eurozone's financial woes. At 0733 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was ...

Trillion dollar kitchen sink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2010
... markets, particularly when the fiscal austerity measures show up in slower growth -- even a return to recession -- of highly indebted European economies and the threat of contagion to stronger economies once again rear its ugly head. And to pay their ...

Seek and thou shalt find

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2010
... and thou shalt find. There's Greece... and Ireland, and Portugal and Spain... and all other high deficit and heavily indebted sovereign countries. But is a country still a sovereign if creditors dictate its policies? Come to think of it, what does it ...

Greece is the word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2010
... of deficit reduction. What is happening in Greece and Portugal and Ireland and Spain serves a warning to other highly indebted countries. This is where the classic phrase, "caught between a rock and hard place" distinctly applies. Rock. Stop government ...

Miranda Kerr and the market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2010
... highest level since 1997. Spain and Ireland also got burnt as financial markets seek out to mete punishment to heavily indebted nations. And then there's the US. Oh, Miranda my Miranda, whereforth art thou my Miranda? News overnight showed that US unemployment ...

Seven signs of the end of an empire

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2009
From military overextension to excess debt, one expert argues that the seven signs that mark the end of an empire are evident in the current US regime - and explores why the baton of power has well and truly shifted to the BRIC economies. David Thomas ...

Danger, Will Robinson!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
Danger, Will Robinson! Danger, Danger! No. I am not talking about the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) new World Economic Outlook report detailing how its forecasters changed their mind (again!) and now think that global growth would contract by ...