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Missing the forest for the trees

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2013
Another day...another fresh record for the Dow. But... but, wasn't it only last week that financial markets were almost peeing their pants because America has turned the corner back into cactusville yet again? Remember what the headlines told us last ...

Ripples from a pebble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2013
... inflation-adjusted returns and using as lead "The Daily Telegraph's" story about how a Shanghai migrant worker saved 7200 yuan (US$1,153) for about 10 years, which his wife hid in the inside pocket of a coat that's stored inside a closet. How much safer ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2013
... than expected last year. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index rose 11.15 points to 2,328.22 on turnover of 113.0 billion yuan ($A17.41 billion). Policymakers at Japan's central bank on Monday began a two-day meeting that markets widely expect will ...

Beggar me not my neighbour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013
... into the fight.. America's greenback has turned pale due to the unlimited supply the Fed is printing of the paper. China's yuan remains undervalued. The new Japanese leaders have in no uncertain terms expressed their desire to keep the yen low. And this ...

Off the cliff and into the ceiling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2013
"Problems, problems, pro-o-o-o-blems They won't be solved until I'm sure of you-o-ou..." -Everly Brothers That's' right dynamite, the myriad of problems in the financial markets that haunted investors everywhere appears to have gone the way of 2012 ...

Coming in 2014: Aussie recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2012
... euro-Swiss franc currency comparison to 1.50 Euro-Swiss franc exchange rate has not gone beyond 1.22 this year. 8 US dollar-yuan rate rises 10 per cent to 7... China gets to the brink of a "recession", meaning 5 to 6 per cent GDP growth. US dollar has ...

Ten-year future vs. 10-minute tick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2012
... increase in its October trade surplus; no, it hasn't as indicated by the bigger-than-expected 14% year-on-year drop in new yuan loans in October. Last night, the worries returned to Europe and whether or not the troika would drop another penny into Greece's ...

Wealth gap narrows in China

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
... Agriculture report cited by the state owned Xinhua news agency on Thursday. Rural residents' per capita cash income was 6778 yuan ($A1041) in the first nine months of this year, up 12.3% year-on-year, the ministry said. The increase was 2.5 percentage ...

Spanish fly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
... still await more stimulus measures from China, the politburo has already set some in train: There's the estimated 1 trillion yuan worth of infrastructure projects to build 2,018 kilometres of roads and construct subways in 18 cities only just a little ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
... traded. Wall Street posted gains on Thursday night, due in part to reports the People's Bank of China would pump 365 billion yuan ($A55.9 billion) into money markets, to maintain banks' liquidity. That news spurred gains on the local market on Thursday. ...