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Gloom and doom news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... there's a supply glut in commodities which, by extension, dampens the growth outlook for commodity exporting countries - Australia, Canada, Brazil, Russia, the Middle East - which lowers demand some more. And then there's terrorism - ISIS, Bangkok bombings ...

September -- morn or mourn?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
"They see what they want to see, hear what they want to hear and think what they want to think." This saying was on full display over the past 24 hours, Virginia... just look at the headlines. Yes, of course, I'm scribbling about the talk of the town ...

SelectingSuper rejects claim small funds should merge

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015
... are doing. Even more challenging are boutique retail superannuatiuon products that outsource their trusteeship, such as Virgin Super or Max Super. Just as technology has empowered fragmentation in the media and other industries, and spurred the sharing ...

Make it December (for now)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
... -- as annual growth in the ECI had been averaging only about 2.0% since 2010. Just as RBA Gov Glenn wondered whether Australia's trend growth is now lower than 3% -- 3.5%, maybe America's NAIRU (non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment) has also ...

A question of trend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
... of Statistics' (ABS) CPI report for the June quarter has heated up speculations of whether or not the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) would cut interest rates once (or twice?) more. First the stats: annual headline CPI inflation was clocked at 1.5% in ...

The "old economy" that is Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
... Morning Herald (SMH) yesterday. The heading says it all really: "Apple, Google and Microsoft explain the problem with Australia's sharemarket". Yes Virginia, the mammoths of the tech world have joined in the "bash Australia" crowd. There's something ...

Round and round we go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
... would just be that, "doom and gloom" predictions. No sir... can't have that! For what would happen to this headline, "Australia's economy in 'vicious circle', with sluggish growth set to continue" published in the "Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) only a ...

From Greece's frying pan into China's fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2015
What Greece has started, China's finishing. To be sure, the tragi-comedy that is Greece is far from over, not with crunch time moments ever so foreverly moved - 23 February was the first "this is it moment" for Athens, that became 24 Feb, that became ...

Chexit, Checcident and Chimbo

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2015
Chexit, Checcident, Chimbo OlA(C)! OlA(C)! OlA(C)! A$ down... and the RBA didn't even have to lift a finger. Yes Virginia, it didn't happen overnight but it did happen. The A$ broke below US$0.74 (US$0.7398) last night - the first since mid-2009 - despite ...

Banned for taking $4m from SMSFs

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
... investors (aiming to raise at least $20 million). They intended to establish an offshore share scheme in the US and British Virgin Islands outside of the jurisdiction of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). An ASIC investigation ...