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Catching the big wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2014
Whoopsie! No more free Chinese take-aways. Yeah, yeah, I know... I'm a day late and a yuan short in bringing to you the latest market moving event in the world's second biggest economy. And yes, I mentioned short because some speculators might be thinking ...

Traffic light trade

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014
... previous month. The manufacturing PMI edged down to 53 from 54 but the services PMI edged up to 51.7 from 51.6 in January. Green. Of course it's for Uncle Sam.A Just look at the 0.6% climb in the Dow and the S&P 500 last night and the 0.7% increase in ...

MetLife's Green returns to Australia to take up interim CEO role

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2014
Damien Green, head of employee benefits in Asia, will move back to Sydney from Asia to take up the role of interim chief executive of the Australian MetLife business, replacing departing chief executive Marc Lieberman. According to a MetLife spokesperson ...

MetLife Australia announces interim CEO

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014
Damien Green, head of employee benefits in Asia, will take on the additional role of interim chief executive of the MetLifeA Australia. He will report to Nirmala Menon, head of designated markets and health, MetLife until a successor is found. Green ...

Confusing versus credible

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2014
So what happened? Why did the previous day's Yellen yay turned into a Yellen yawn last night? Profit-taking?A Perhaps. Then again, why oh why? Why wouldn't the denizens of Wall Street lighten up their risks portfolios just a day after assured you, I ...

Subjected to interpretation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014
... celebrating St. Patrick's Day today. It's filled with and flashing that trademark Irish colour and the colour of American money - green. We all know what green means, don't we Virginia? Go, go, go. Go a-shopping... because the US economy is going. At ...

Roast Turkey

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2014
Whoa! Bet you felt the same way when you saw what the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (CBRT) got up to yesterday - it proved it was no turkey. Go ahead punk, make my day! This was the threat the CBRT made to all 'em sellers, shorters and dumpers ...

Another 10 bil to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2014
... based on emerging-market volatility alone." Sowee there's one more...not continuing to taper now when the signs are flashing green would cost the Fed its credibility. Certainly Big Ben wouldn't want that as his finale. Neither would Janet as her intro. ...

Government must recycle brownfield infra: FSC

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2014
The Financial Services Council (FSC) has urged federal and state governments to adopt the capital recycling model for infrastructure development to attract superannuation investment. In its submission to the Productivity Commission's Public Infrastructure ...

Up, up, prices are up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2014
Dear! Dear! Dear! Yes my dear Virginia, Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) figures showed that the cost of living in this sunburnt country girt by sea has become dearer in the quarter ended 31 December 2013. Headline consumer prices jumped by 0.8% ...