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Punishing Putin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2014
... suspend our participation in activities associated with the preparation of the scheduled G8 Summit in Sochi in June." But let's not stop there, according to The Globe and Mail, "(Canadian) Prime Minister Stephen Harper has warned Russia could be expelled ...

RBS posts soaring losses, pays $1m bonuses

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
Royal Bank of Scotland's losses soared to almost STG9 billion ($A16.82 billion) last year, the state-rescued lender has announced, while its decision to pay millions in bonuses has triggered a political backlash. Net losses announced on Thursday widened ...

When saving goes bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
... profitable domestic division). And its international business would continue to suffer by its plan capacity reduction. But let's not stop at QAN. The "Private New Capital Expenditure and Expected Expenditure, Australia, Dec 2013" released by the Australian ...

It must have been love

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2014
... before the government raises the consumption tax from 5% to 8% in April. But fear not... financial markets expect the BOJ to let its love flow soon.

PROFILE: Assistant Treasurer Arthur Sinodinos

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
... position yet. And this is a position that Sinodinos is not taking lightly. "It's very easy in politics to see a problem and say 'let's do something about it.' I think under the previous government, some major pieces of legislation got through without ...

Oh what a feelin'

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2014
You, I and Irene can bury our collective heads in the sand but we can't escape Toyota's announcement that it would tailgate Ford and then Holden out of Australia and then... Australia's car manufacturing industry would be no more when 2017 turns into ...

FoFA changes must go before parliament: Collins

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2014
... fundamentally amending the FoFA laws should rest with the Australian parliament who put them there in the first place. No short-cuts - let's have a proper parliamentary debate." He said that while parts of the industry were "very eager" to have the FoFA ...

Waiting for jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2014
... January and the unemployment rate to remain unchanged at 6.7%. Close to the 175K reported by ADP right? Could be good but let me remind you about the match (or mismatch) between the ADP employment numbers and the official one only last month - employment ...

Mmm bargains, hmm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2014
... but if the 'experts' insist on using this as rationale for last night's bounce back after the sharp drop the night before, let's dig further. Dig, dig, dig. Stripping out the volatile transport component from overall factory orders, we get a 0.2% lift ...

Of horse trades and the January effect

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2014
... days of the month, by 6.1% for the full month and ended the year down, down and down 38.5%A Look ma, I can mine data too! Let's borrow Glum's (that Liliputian in "The Adventures of Gulliver" cartoon) line this time, "We're doomed, we'll never make it!" ...