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Why QE3 will work

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2012
... just take little ben's word for it. I call upon a greater mortal to explain. Over to you Big Ben. In his speech at Jackson Hole last 31 August, US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke already expounded on this: "How effective are balance sheet policies? ...

Ben's turn to be super

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2012
... outside his pants and do a Super Mario. Most financial marketeers were convinced he talked about it last month at Jackson Hole, will he now walk his talk -- ala Mario Draghi - and save the world? By now you would have read about the pieces of bad news ...

Plug the $1 trillion savings shortfall: FSC

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2012
... has prompted the Financial Services Council (FSC) to call for longer working lives, to plug a massive retirement savings hole caused by people outliving life expectancies. Australians who live longer than current life expectancy will face an approximate ...

Bond boom or bust?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2012
We've peered through the Hole and we saw something - we think. Now it's the Europeans turn. Yes Virginia, the Europeans are back in town! And yes, Virginia, we can tell because we're hearing the same rhetoric from the usual suspects being replayed on ...

So where's the QE?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2012
... would have read the various and myriad of interpretations to US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke' elocution at Jackson Hole. So far so good. Gauging from the financial markets' reaction - equity markets up, commodity markets up, Treasury yields ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2012
... tempered by his picture of an economy that remains weak and vulnerable. In his speech at a central bankers summit in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Dr Bernanke warned that stagnation in the US labour market was "a grave concern" and signalled he would be pushing ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012
... investors waited for a speech from US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke at a gathering of world central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming over the weekend. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.81 per cent, the S&P500 slipped 0.78 per cent and the ...

Variant Perceptions' variant perception

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012
... that participants may have given up on the thought. By now I assume that the ink has dried on our BFF Ben's speech at the hole and given recent stats which, on balance, show that the US economy is not deteriorating but instead improving (however mildly) ...

It's still the hole, stups

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2012

Limboland

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2012