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Coming in 2014: Aussie recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2012
... and listen. Ahhh... but did you see it? Right there on there on the quote above - "everything being equal". This is the classic 'out of jail' quote for us economists. As in, don't blame me, my predictions didn't pan out because this happened or that ...

Polarisation of super dubbed "shocking" by UK manager

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2012
... extreme you've got MySuper being introduced in a very explicit recognition that a lot of people never look - that's a very classic division between those who are fascinated and prosperous enough to do it themselves and those for whom it's just something ...

Lucky in so many ways

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2012
... Federal Reserve officials are getting impatient with the economy's sluggish growth and could take action as soon as 31 July. Classic, isn't it? This gives an iffy feeling what the Australian equity market will do today. Will it react to fresh fears about ...

More liquidity in alternative strategies: S&P

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
... beta products is putting fee pressure on strategies with higher levels of traditional asset class betas, including many classic FoHFs.

No random walk on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012
... an up day on Wall Street followed the previous one's down. Over the past seven trading days, the S&P 500 displayed this classic sawtooth pattern. Here are the stats - and the rationales as headlined: 06 June: Up 2.3% on whispers of Fed stimulus 07 June ...

VIX says nearly shopping time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2012
... country stays afloat. Kick it out and it'll have to dig deeper into its pockets to ensure that Spain et al stays afloat. Classic! Isn't it? Damned if they do, dumber if they don't. Well, perhaps. We could discuss, dissect and distil Greece and ills and ...

Dickens on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2012
... going direct the other way..." No Virginia, I must admit I haven't read Charles' (Dickens) immortal 'A Tale of Two Cities' classic but for the opening lines above and perhaps one or two paragraphs here and there. I recalled Charles' words - ok, google ...

Big Ben boosta

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2012
... an attack of the wobbles and here we have our ol' friend Ben calming nerves with a karaoke rendition of James Ingrams's classic, "Just Once". Wall Street applauded, and with a standing ovation at that. Wall Street seemed content enough to trade up on ...

Good memories

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2012
... afraid to buy" "Coz now stocks are fallin' Fallin' fast again." My apologies to Teri de Sario for my rendition of his classic "Fallin'", it's just that by changing a few words in the song's lyrics we get good enough description of the financial markets' ...

Recycled scares

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2012
... CACs is not a market-friendly approach and is set to trigger pay outs under credit default swap contracts because it is a classic case of a debtor coercing a creditor under the rules of the International Swaps And Derivatives Associations." But, but ...