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She's becoming right, mate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2011
... the Europeans don't agree - or more accurately, the Germans vote nein. All will be revealed on the 9th of this month. Our dear Sisyphus also got help from good US stats. The Institute of Supply Management Index moved further up the expansion line in ...

Hero to Zero

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2011
... involved slashing a,-14.32 billion in public spending and raising a,-14.09 in taxes over five years. Zero. And then, wham bam, dear George crossed his fingers and announced that Europe's handshake shouldn't be with him but with the Greek people. He's ...

Ben calls on JMK

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2011
... panacea. It is "not a game changer." In simple terms, worry about getting growth going now and attend to the deficit later. But dear Big Benny can blah all he wants. Fiscal austerity, fiscal discipline, small government is current fashion. And any politician ...

Good news from bad stats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2011
... beginning of the beginnings of another leg up in equities or will this prove to be another dead cat bounce (I apologise to the dear reader who wrote to tell me he hates reading this phrase, you know who you are)? Investors have come back because of the ...

Carbon blast from the GST past

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
Yes, I know. It was very conspicuous -- the absence of even a single line of commentary on this space over Prime Minister Gillard's Sunday announcement of the carbon tax nitty-gritties. I didn't want to jump the gun or add my still confused thoughts ...

The seventh day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011
... previous weeks, more benign numbers (i.e., they fell but fell less than expected) created angst in the market but not last night dear boy, players just chose to ignore them. What the market saw is America's trade numbers - and they were good. The US ...

All good but for the dollar A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2011
The global community was not in the least perturbed by the release of Australia's National Accounts that showed real GDP fell by 1.2 per cent in the March quarter. Not even the fact that the economic slump in the first three months of 2011 was bigger ...

Planners make their budget wishes

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
As the Federal Government goes into budget lockdown, financial advisers have named their dearest wishes - and it's not for free set top boxes. Concessional caps, tax concessions for advice fees and a cut in the company tax rate were at the top of the ...

Backpedals

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2011
... economy needs to generate at least 150K jobs a month to ensure that the recovery is sustainable? Well, here's news for you my dear friends, job creation had been above 200k for the past three consecutive months. USA is on its way! But speaking of backtracking ...

Silver bullet downs market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011
Looks like the commodity and equity markets put up a big 'SALE sign last night. Commodities of nearly all persuasions dropped with a thud and so did Wall Street along with other markets in North and Latin America and most of Europe. Do I have permission ...