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Best laid plan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
... Vice President and the US President's Economic Adviser backed each other saying that America's stimulus measures were not enough. Washington should implement "Stimulus Mark II" and spend, spend, spend. Well I guess, now that Wall Street is back in a ...

Jumping at shadows no more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
... unemployment heap continued unabated - raising doubts about the recovery. Reverse expectations engineering. Lower expectations enough and you increase the odds of being pleasantly surprise, this column argued back in late June. And so it came to pass. ...

Shareholder activism misses the mark

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
... governance then guess what? It should all apply to you guys too," said Ralph. "This will be the next big thing. It's not good enough for super funds to point the fingers at listed companies without taking on the same accountability themselves."

RBNZ could go zero

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
... the December 2008 quarter - NZ's economy has already contracted for five consecutive quarters. And if this were not bad enough, consensus expects economic output to shrink by 2.05 per cent in 2009 - almost 10 times the contraction forecast for Australia. ...

We're feeling better, said Aussie investors

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2009
... per cent of Australian investors have given the thumbs up to the Federal Government, saying that the Government had done enough to address the local economic situation. This was the highest result of all 13 Asia Pacific countries surveyed by ING. Despite ...

Meredith Whitney

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2009
... more than four times the previous year's US$459 billion deficit! If Wall Street wanted to drop, these certainly were good enough reasons to drop. But no Virginia. As I have been saying in previous days, the equity markets just need a catalyst to catch ...

The times they are a'changin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2009
... tenth consecutive month and are now at their lowest level in nearly five years. Yes, Virginia, economic data is challenging enough to discern in the best of times. More so now, when economies and markets are at an inflection point. Catching their breath ...

ASIC lifts restrictions on intra-fund advice

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2009
... compared to only 1.62 per cent back in 2007. Meanwhile, industry body IFSA welcomed the changes but said ASIC didn't go far enough. IFSA chief Richard Gilbert said the next step should be to offer the regulatory relief to financial advice outside sup ...

Dixon criticises Premium buy-back scheme

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2009
... Superannuation Services claim the 8 per cent on-market buy back scheme proposed by the Premium Investors board will not provide enough liquidity to shareholders. Yesterday the Premium Investors board announced it plans to conduct an on-market share buy-back ...

Can't swing it both ways

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2009
... stimulus - confirming bearish views that the economy is far from healed. These two factors taken together are significant enough to place a big question mark over the sustainability of the equity market rally that started in early March 2009. Will the ...