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India's triple dilemma

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2013
Every country in the world wants their currency to be cheaper than the others, correct? In this world of subpar growth, a currency lower than the rest provides that extra kick that the economy needs - never mind 'beggaring the neighbours'. This is the ...

Clear as crystal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
... an increase the pace of purchases for a time, to promote a return to maximum employment in a context of price stability." Dear ol' Uncle Ben also elaborated on his 11 July statement when he told us that the current US employment rate "if anything, overstates ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013
The Australian market looks set to follow Wall Street's downward lead and open lower, a day after rising 2.5 per cent and posting its biggest gains since October 6 2011. US stocks reversed early gains and ended lower on revived concerns about the eurozone ...

Sinking emerging markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2013
... Street rallied following the release of the US non-farm payrolls report for May, it hasn't settled anything about whether dear Uncle Ben would taper or not. There was something for everyone. Stimulus tapering is coming soon because jobs increased by ...

It'll be on 18 September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013
... emerging consensus that the Fed would start taking back a few billion dollars by September. September got prominence the day dear Uncle Ben testified before the Joint Economics Committee last month when its head and Texas Republican Kevin Brady asked ...

Advisers could benefit from independent software

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2013
... Bailey sees it, is the fact that it avoids many of the losses associated with using the major platforms. "Platforms are very dear. Platforms also cheat people because most platforms in their cash management account are getting rebates off the banks and ...

Yuan to float free, in our dreams

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2013

Will stocks follow Fed exit to the exits?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2013
... recovery strengthens". Then again, I might be wrong. Guess we'll just have to find out straight from the horse's mouth when dear Uncle Ben speaks this coming Saturday. Still, it doesn't follow that because the Fed is headed for the exits, stock markets ...

Down, down, dollar down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2013
... investment and/or exports. Monsieur Druckenmiller is not one to be taken lightly for apart from that US$1 billion he made for dear George, Bloomberg says that he's "the billionaire hedge-fund manager who returned an average of 30 percent a year from ...

Funeral arrangements for Synchron's Paul Riegelhuth

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2013
... Synchron, Don Trapnell and John Prossor, expressed their sorrow at the news. "We have lost not only our business partner but a dear mate and a lifelong friend," Prossor and Trapnell said in a statement. Bennett said: "I am personally devastated to learn ...