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Santa Mario brings cheers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2015
... big surprise when ECB pres Mario Draghi hinted at giving you, I and Irene more than the "two front teeth" we want for Christmas. "The degree of monetary-policy accommodation will need to be reviewed at our December meeting when new macroeconomic projections ...

OPINION: What to do with the Tax White Paper!

ANDREW BRAGG, DIRECTOR OF POLICY, FINANCIAL SERVICES COUNCIL  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2015
... and Kelly O'Dwyer have been sufficiently briefed by the Treasury, the Green (options) Paper should be released before Christmas. Releasing the Green Paper before Christmas means there will be time for public conversation and reflection before the final ...

Not happy Jan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
... easing on the accelerator." "The more important factor, though, will be the pace of subsequent increases." Gov Glenn's Christmas wish? "An increase in the Fed's fund rate will probably happen before Christmas." It better before the recent upward move ...

PROFILE: AvSuper chief executive Michelle Wade

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
... superannuation career almost by accident. Searching for what she thought would be an appropriate nine-to-five day job with no Christmas roster in a shopping centre, Wade decided to join AAS as an administration manager in the mid-90s. She was fortunate ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
... lunch in Melbourne. No major equities news is expected. In Australia, the market on Thursday enjoyed its best day since Christmas as it rode a growing wave of expectation of a Reserve Bank rate cut. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 108.5 points ...

Majority wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2015
... reduction in the cash rate was appropriate". More so because he stressed this in his interview with the AFR just before Christmas: "We can't be perfectly predictable because we don't know ourselves what is going to happen in the future. But to the extent ...

Santa's bargains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 DEC 2014
... consumers would have more disposable income to dispose of somewhere else, that's what I imagine, would happen. Merry Christmas to you too! Cheaper oil prices would act as a countervailing factor to the present weakness in global growth. Global growth ...

Australia according to Gov Glenn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
Thank you Australian Financial Review (AFR) and RBA Governor Glenn Stevens for your early Christmas present - the gift of sharing. In what has now become a "tradition," we learned from the AFR Gov Glenn's thoughts on: The international economy: "The ...

Bad tidings for Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
... negative news flow and speculations over the past 24 hours would, like ol' Ebenezer Scrooge, make you, I and Irene hate Christmas. While we're still deciding where the floor is on the on-going oil price slide, more bad tidings our way came. There was ...

The Grinch is stealing Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2014
Where would this, 'tis the season to be jolly, without the Grinch stealing Christmas? Just when we thought financial markets would be jingling all the way into the New Year - helped by the unarguably strong US employment report for November - we're ...