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You did this! No, you did!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012
Finger pointing -- this is what happens when the going gets tough. Europe blames the US for the drop in its equity markets last night. "European Stocks Fall on Mounting Concern Over U.S. Budget," says Bloomberg. Wall Street blames Europe for its woes. ...

Reliance on improving global economy threatens big-four in 2013

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2012
The annus horribilis that Australia's big-four banks expect to define 2013 could become a present reality if too much of their fortunes are hitched to an expected strengthening global economy following the re-election of US President Barrack Obama yesterday ...

Urbanisation fuelling resource demand

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2012
... resources, there is a great variation between energy stocks and mining stocks, with the latter running on exceptionally low PEs. For example, RIO is trading on a PE of 8 times, which is incredibly cheap." Meanwhile, defensive stocks which include consumables ...

Woe R'Us

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2012
Australians all let's NOT rejoice. How can we when day in, day out - days in-between - we're reminded of the woeful state that the world is in and that... we'll be swimming with the fishes along with it? Woe R'Us. Look beyond the sea that girths our ...

IMF - It Means Fun

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
Here you go again, u-huh, scaring us again, u-huh. Can you feel it, can you feel it, can you feel it? Sure you can, it's all over the place - Chicken Little is going around crying "the sky is falling" (again). You can't miss it, not even if you close ...

Time to buy the bad news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2012
They just won't stop coming, do they? Yes them, the bad news. This time it came courtesy of the World Bank (WB). The WB went on a chopping spree - slashing its growth outlook for the Asia and the Pacific region to 7.2% this year and 7.6% in 2013 - down ...

Fear for financial future reigns

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012
Australian employees are more wary of job security and their future financial wellbeing than their fellow workers in recessionary countries, according to new Towers Watson research. Results from its latest Global Workforce Study (GWS) reveal that more ...

Food is the new Europe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2012
Uh-oh, looks like the EU has not kicked that pestering debt crisis can far enough down the road. Wasn't it only a few days ago (last Friday) that they approved Spain's a,-100 billion bail? And not even a month has passed since their announcement of ...

Bad news? Where?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2012
The times, they are a-changin' - or more accurately, market sentiment is. The glass is no longer half-empty, it's half-filled and if leaks again, the Fed will be there to top it up. So half-full that our very own S&P/AX 200 index surged by more than ...

It's more fun in the Philippines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2012
Ho-ho-hum. Been there, done that times n. Another day, another week, another month, another quarter and still financial markets continue to dance to the same old songs. They rise and fall depending on the headline of the day - though it seems to me ...