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Dubai games

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2009
Cheque's in the mail! This was what Abu Dhabi told Dubai's creditors after making them sweat for almost three weeks. Financial markets cheered. And to borrow Bloomberg's headline, "Stocks Rise, Default Swaps, Dollar Drop Following Dubai Bailout". Maybe ...

12 Apostles

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2009

Jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2009
Jobs, jobs, jobs. Another month, another good jobs report. Yes, ladies and gents, Australia's labour market continues to improve. The Australian Bureau of Statistics released the latest tally showing that jobs downunder increased by 31,200 in November ...

Damned either way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2009

Debt load

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2009
Just when we thought Dubai's Desert Storm was just a one-off, we're now confronted with the shock and awe at more warnings over sovereign credit ratings. Remember the one? Towards the close of November Dubai World dropped a bombshell by announcing that ...

Low rates to stay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2009
How many times do I have to say it? The US Federal Reserve would not raise interest rates until the American economy has stronger legs to stand on. This is basically what Chairman Benny told US and world financial markets when he spoke before the Economic ...

We're still in Kansas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2009
"Ladies and gentlemen, you're not on Kansas anymore..." (James Cameron's movie, Avatar) But based on financial market's reaction to last Friday's US payrolls report, "we must be over the rainbow!" (Dorothy Gale in the Wizard of Oz). The sun shone, the ...

Dummy spit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2009
You are the definition of moral hazard! These words - delivered by Kentucky Republican Senator Jim Bunning at Ben Bernanke's Senate hearing on his nomination for a second term as Chairman of the US Federal Reserve - perhaps reflects the embodiment of ...

Cash is king in Japan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2009

Australians as Asians

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2009
So that's why the RBA raised interest rates...again! Australia is an Asian country.The Age reports that "a Lowy Institute poll of Chinese public opinion on world affairs, to be released today, shows Australia is accepted as an Asian nation, with an ...