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Bad news day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
... rates this month, there could be another reason why it didn't... and it's much closer to home....and it's name is shutdown. Yes Virginia, the prospect of another shutdown of the US government looms - the country's lawmakers have only until 30 September ...

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Noi, noi, noi!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2015
Another Monday, another sell, sell day. This time the media - social or otherwise - are calling the sharp drop in the Australian equities market yesterday a "Horror Monday". It wasn't as bloody as that "Bloody Monday", 24 August, when the benchmark ...

Not happy Jan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
... at Penn Capital, Eric Green, saying that, "There's some concern that the Fed sees something we're not seeing in the data." Yes Eric, Janet sees dead people. Read the statement again, "Recent global economic and financial developments may restrain economic ...

Speculation springs eternal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
... target range in October as of about 3pm. in New York, a 49.5% chance by the December meeting and a 56.5% likelihood by January" Yes Virginia, the words I typed on this space just a week ago daring Janet to lift - "Inaction next week would only send speculators ...

Government debt is not bad: Sicilia

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
The federal government should be borrowing "with its ears pinned back" to exploit low interest rates and stimulate growth rather than starving the economy of capital to establish nation building projects. Addressing an investment forum in Sydney yesterday ...

TWU Super appoints chief executive for third gig

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
TWU Super consultant Bill McMillin will take the reins as chief executive for the second time in three years, also marking his third stint in the top role. TWU Super chair David Galbally announced yesterday that McMillin will return to the role in a ...

China stimulates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
... would counter the slowdown in their economy with more stimulus measures - any stimulus measure - just turned into reality. Yes folks, Beijing's topping up last month's monetary policy easing - lowered interest rate and RRR - with expansionary fiscal ...

So bad it could only be good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
It's back! And it's good! Yes Virginia, the "bad news is good news" trade is back on. It's risk back on as China's bad -- very, very bad, trade data sparked hopes of further stimulus and Fed lift-off delay. As 'The Guardian' reports, the latest trade ...

Yuan stable (for now)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
News that China has revised its 2014 growth estimate from 7.4% -- the lowest in almost 25 years and missing its 7.5% target for that year - to 7.3% may have raised only a few eyebrows but it certainly added fuel to accusations that the People's Bank ...

Labour market says go, inflation says no

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
Yes, no, maybe I don't know. That's the answer we got from the very latest US non-farm payrolls report on the question of a September lift-off. There was something for everyone. Those expecting the Fed to pull the lift-off trigger at their 16-17 September ...