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Meaning to the meaningless

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2010
... of home foreclosure practices." These two are examples of what you'll find on the blogosphere and cyberland this morning. Yes, there are slight slants and variations - to circumvent accusations of plagiarism - but the message is one. It is the weak weekly ...

No housing bubble: Fidelity

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2010
Fidelity banks and property analyst Anita Costa told advisers in Sydney yesterday that while she is concerned over housing affordability levels in Australia, there is no property market bubble. Speaking at the 2010 Fidelity Investment Forum, Costa argued ...

Fed bearing gift of QE2

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2010
... fight the Fed! This adage has been with us for some time now and it's back again doing the rounds in the financial markets. Yes, Virginia. The chorus for QE2 keeps growing louder that Wall Street - and the world - appears to be just waiting for the official ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
Australian stocks were lower at noon, pulled down by the resources and banking sector after indecisive leads from overseas markets. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 32 points lower, or 0.7 per cent, at 4,664.5 while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Cheap talk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
... economies in the world plus China, India, Brazil and a handful of others talked about a very important agenda - currency wars. Oh yes, they talked... and talked... and talked. In a world where competitive currency devaluation threatens to bring global ...

Bad news is good news is bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 OCT 2010
When bad news... Those who've already done their weekend reading probably know what I'm going to write about. Yes, it's the US private non-farm payrolls report for September - the one that shows that jobs in America are still hard to come by. Overall ...

Parity not quite a party

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 OCT 2010
... and the pride of the nation. It came oh so close to parity with the greenback. And parity is just an "i" removed from party. Yes Virginia, it's all over cyberspace... the Australian dollar is just a few small ticks away from becoming even stevens with ...

Good for nothing war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2010
... a thousand mothers' eyes". "War! It ain't nothing but a heartbreaker. War! It's got one friend, that's the undertaker..." Yes Virginia, this long drawn-out climb out of the abyss of the deep recession has frustrated governments of all stripes and colours ...

Grand currency sale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 OCT 2010

ACCC responds to NAB/AXA deal criticism

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 1 OCT 2010
The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission has hit back at criticisms of its "lack of timeliness" in making decisions about NAB's merger with AXA. In a speech made in Sydney yesterday, Graeme Samuel, chairman of the ACCC, called the timeliness ...