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Happy birthday bull

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
... flow of economic and survey data have been bad and deteriorating. What could be worse than news over the weekend that America sacked another 651,000 workers in February, taking the unemployment rate up to 8.1 per cent - the highest in 25 years. Last ...

Australia better than triple A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2010
... This was US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's when ABC News asked if he was concerned over a possible downgrade of America's credit rating. Worries about the US credit rating made the headlines when in early December last year, Moody's issued a report ...

ADHD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
... that sinking feeling on Wall Street overnight. Disappointment over banks earnings results also played a part. Bank of America reported a bigger than expected loss for the third quarter while JP Morgan and Citigroup warned about more loan losses. Morgan ...

Dummy spit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2009
... we punish failure, not reward it. That is certainly the way it was when I played baseball, and the way it is all across America. Judging by the current Treasury Secretary, some may think Washington does reward failure, but that should not be the case. ...

On A$ parity and dashed whispers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2009
... another's - your currency goes up. At current interest rates, Australia's cash rate offers a 3.25 per cent premium against America's zero. Forward expectations that Aussieland rates would reach 5 per cent while they would remain at zero in the US increase ...

Three wise men - maybe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2009
... Section 421 (see yesterday's commentary), Obama is taking away the crutches from other patient countries and giving it to America.

Greenback weakness not all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2009
... as the value of the US dollar falls. Notable beneficiaries are Australia, South Africa, Russia and the OPEC countries. America, itself, will benefit. US exporters would become more competitive in the international market. Offshore earnings would be boosted ...

September mourn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2009
... September meltdown. Woe to the US, woe to the world! Forget that recent macro economic and financial market indicators in America and the rest of the world have been slowly but steadily strengthening. Forget that nearly three-quarters of companies in ...

Aussies lag behind in PRI implementation

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2009
Many Australian and New Zealand signatories to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI) are lagging behind their overseas counterparts on implementing the principles, according to a progress report. The UN PRI Report on Progress ...

Lost decade redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
... compares with a 176 jump in US bond yields and 167 on gilts. The eye of the global financial crisis may be centred in America and Britain one of the countries hit most hard by the financial fall-out, but statistics show that it is the Japanese economy ...