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The art of fighting without fighting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
Only 2 economists out of the 57 in Bloomberg's survey and just 2 - perhaps the same 2 - out of 72 economist polled by Reuters got it wrong. Think it's safe to say that these two economists (or four, in case they aren't the same two) expected the European ...

A$ rising on China slowing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2014
... manufacturing activity had been in contraction territory (below 50). What gives? What gave is the statement HSBC's chief economist, China & co-head of Asian economic research, Hongbin Qu, made in the PMI report: "The HSBC Flash China Manufacturing PMI ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014
... little reason to make big bets either way given Tuesday's dearth of major economic news. Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Rockwell Global Capital, said the market drifted lower in the absence of a catalyst to lift stocks and overtake "psychological ...

market wrap PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
Mining companies have dragged the sharemarket lower after weak Chinese trade data lead to a fall in commodity prices. Chinese import and export figures released on Saturday showed an unexpected trade deficit of $US22.98 billion ($A25.37 billion), vastly ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2014
The Australian market has opened weaker due to falls by the mining giants and a soft lead from Wall Street. CMC Markets chief analyst Ric Spooner said the Australian market was returning to a more stable level after the volatility caused by political ...

Never good enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2014
Yeah, it's good but... This is the overriding verdict of the country's oft-quoted economists to the latest Australian national accounts report that showed our economy grew by a larger-than-expected 0.8% (expectations 0.7%) in the December quarter and ...

Catching the big wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2014
... signed a trade liberalisation deal with Singapore and Taiwan on 7 November 2013. Asia bagged! And before this, 'The Economist' magazine published on 21 September 2013 that, "Twenty years ago its exports to China were negligible. Today China is Africa's ...

A-dollar zero point six six

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
... really brave or truly spaced out after smoking some heavy stuff. One thing's for sure though, Deutsche Bank's chief economist for Australia Adam Boyton has made the headlines with his fearless forecast that the Australian dollar would be worth 0.66 dollar-US ...

Traffic light trade

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014
... distortions.A She'll be right when spring breaks. This appears to be the same conclusion reached by the just-released "The Economist/FT Global Business Barometer" survey: "THE outlook for business is positively sunny, according to the latest Economist/FT ...

(Back) wages

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2014
... uptrend how could we miss it? It's the classic classical economists' credo known as 'Say's Law' (popularised by French economist Jean Say in the 19th century) that says that, "in a free market workers would always be willing to lower their wages to a ...