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Janet's Jackson

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014
"Ain't no value high enough, ain't no Putin tough enough, ain't no ISIS mad enough" to keep investors away from Wall Street and... Yes I know it's a double negative (but that's how the song goes and you know what it means) but more importantly, you ...

RBA to business: release the animal in you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
"What do you know about medicine?" This was what the doctor I consulted asked me when I asked for a stronger dose of antibiotics to rid me of the bacterial bugs that have invaded my body a few months back. Well doc, I may not know about medicine as ...

Humanitarian you, humanitarian me too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
You kiddin' me? I had to go through not one, not two, nor three but several websites to verify what I was reading Saturday morning (Melbourne time), that Wall Street jumped - with the S&P 500 index's Friday surge erasing all of the losses it made from ...

2014 MAX Award Winners and Finalists

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014

Australian investors 'conservative and pessimistic': Legg Mason

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
Australian investors are some of the most nervous and pessimistic in the world despite comparatively favourable investment conditions, a survey by Legg Mason has found. The survey covered 4,300 private investors worldwide, including 200 Australians. ...

Banks eye Google Glass as tech opportunity

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
Westpac is developing a Google Glass application that will allow users to access bank accounts, make fund transfers or locate nearby ATM machines. The bank announced this week that it is currently developing an application for Google Glass, which is ...

Better than good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
Up, up, markets are up. Over the past 24 hours, like any other 24 hours, financial markets were treated to a mix of stats/surveys/news that were either better, worse or in line with their expectations. We've gotten all possible combinations and permutations ...

First quarter stasis and A$ ADHD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2014
It's almost over - the first one-fourth of 2014, that is, and what have equity markets got to show for it? They retreated, they bounced back and after (nearly) three months... they did almost zilch. As at yesterday's closing, the All Ordinaries index ...

Europe a 'running sore' on global economy: Probyn

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2014
Europe may see 1% growth in 2014, but over the long-term its problems are far from over, according to State Street Global Advisors' chief economist Christopher Probyn. Speaking at today's Financial Standard Chief Economists Forum in Sydney, Probyn said ...

Up, up, prices are up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2014
Dear! Dear! Dear! Yes my dear Virginia, Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) figures showed that the cost of living in this sunburnt country girt by sea has become dearer in the quarter ended 31 December 2013. Headline consumer prices jumped by 0.8% ...