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Jobs a-plenty but not if Gillard could help it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2013
Wow! That's the only expression one could make when one saw the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) latest update on the state of the country's labour market. Wow indeed for the Australian economy added more than seven times the 10,000 workers economists ...

Don't stop me now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013
... ago, the S&P 500 index rallied by 6.8% in the year to 18 February 2011 (it's gained 7.3% over the same period this year). Guess what was the major news of that time? It was Nouriel "Dr. Doom" Roubini changing his spots. In a CNBC interview, Dr. Roubini ...

Good, better, best

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
Betterer and betterer. That's the feeling one gets when one scours through the macro stats and surveys released over the past 24 hours. Never mind reports of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) lowering its world growth forecast anew - down to 3.5% ...

Today we wait

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2013

Better 2013 outlook risks complacency

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2013
... end of the world apocalyptic prophets say was coming on 21-12-2012 based on their interpretation of the Mayan calendar. Guess what? You, I, Irene and the whole of human and animal kind made it through 22-12-2012. We didn't go the way of the dinosaurs! ...

Coming in 2014: Aussie recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2012
... pace - 4.5% 2012 - in five years in the first quarter followed by another quarter of strong growth - 3.7% year on year. Guess everything didn't stay equal. Here's the other nine of his predictions: 1 The stock of Apple plummets 50 per cent from its high ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2012
... other than that the ASX had been outperforming US markets in recent days. "These things feed on themselves a little bit... I guess we have a situation where our market has outperformed the US market since the presidential election, we haven't fallen ...

A week full of question marks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2012
Now what's wrong this time? The US Bureau of Labor Statistics released the 'mother-of-all-economic statistics' at the end of last week's trading and it was good. But how did Mr. Market react? He thought it was good too until... he didn't. The S&P 500 ...

Fed decides not to decide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2012
"Stocks end lower after Fed decision." This was the title of a video from 'The Wall Street Journal' that encapsulates all the other headlines that answer the 'why' for the weak performance of those scripts on The Street last night. But what did the ...

Woe R'Us

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2012
... re-election. Expectations five years down the track declined to 93.6 from 98.1. The why's and wherefore's for this is anybody's guess. Australians, it seems, don't know how to count -- count their blessings, that is. You can take your pick - economic ...