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Roast Turkey

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2014
... version of the 1997/98 financial crisis. Mahathir imposed capital controls - limiting the flow of hot money out of the country. If I remember right, his rationale at the time was these money men should suffer the country's misfortunes the same way they ...

Emerging emerging markets concerns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2014

Trio victims condemn Astarra director jail release

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014
... represents the victims of the Trio Capital fraud have described the sentence as "light" and "pathetic." "A dole cheat in this country gets a heavier sentence than the perpetrator of the worst superannuation fraud in Australia's history," VOFF spokesperson ...

Li likes 7%, maybe 7.2%

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014

Up, up, prices are up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2014
... 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% in the December ...

Rich get richer fastest in Australia

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2014
The increase in the share of income going to the wealthiest 1% since 1980 rose faster in Australia than any country bar the US, a new Oxfam report reveals. The report, titled 'Working for the Few', shows the rising levels of inequality between the richest ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2014
... holiday, investors shrugged off flat Chinese economic growth figures a day earlier to send China shares higher after the country's central bank moved to ease fears of a cash crunch. In Tokyo, the benchmark Nikkei rose 0.99 per cent, or 154.28 points ...

Irish luck unlocked

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2014

There's the good news and the good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2014

ASIC publishes Medcraft travel details

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2014
... plans for the period January to June 2014. The documents show three trips adding up to a total of just nine days out the country. However, all three are for Medcraft's IOSCO duties. The first is to Hong Kong on 22-24 January for an IOSCO Asia Pacific ...