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Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2013
... cent. The eurozone unemployment rate hit a fresh record high level of 12.2 per cent in April, with 19.2 million people on the dole as recession continued to sap the economy. The Eurostat data agency said on Friday that in the 12 months to April, a total ...

Wolf, wolf

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2012
... and it was the Great Depression of the 1930s and thank goodness I wasn't still around to experience the long queues for the dole and the soup kitchens at the time. It was bad. And we must thank our lucky stars too that financial markets appear to have ...

Grinch vs Santa

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2010
"Torn between two lovers, feelin' like a fool" - Mary MacGregor Good thing my wife is on holidays far, far away otherwise the shape of my skull would be embedded in one of our frying pans when she reads my opening line. But honey, you know I refer not ...

Jobs, jobs, jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2009
... rate will peak at 6 per cent. Not too long ago, almost everyone it seems agreed we would see 10.5 per cent of us joining the dole. Hmmm... Before the GFC, Australia was even importing workers with the unemployment rate at current levels. We re-elected ...

Fully sick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2009
... But wait. Some are still seeing this a negative! Just goes to show there are many, many, many ways to skin a cat. Receive a dole-out from taxpayers and you're fully sick -- not the Australian slang for saying you're cool or hip of the chk chk boom girl ...

IMF and Swan riding on doom

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
... priming efforts by continuing to shout that the sky is falling? You guessed it! The government is paving the way for more dole-outs. Why? You only have to look at the rise in the government's approval ratings after every stimulus announcement. Money ...

Savings paradox

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2009
... designed to resurrect capitalism or simply more money handed to the general population - in the form of tax cuts and/or direct dole-outs - to keep consumers consuming. Australians who woke up to a six per cent plus rally on Wall Street displayed this ...

Transcending politics

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2009
... Americans and Australians are both in a holding pattern waiting for the passage of their respective government's latest fiscal dole-outs. Wall Street sat on the fence overnight as investors await the approval of US President Barack Obama's proposed stimulus ...

Merry Christmas retailers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2009
... by 1.7 per cent. Year-on-year, sales were up by 5.7 per cent in December. If this is going to repeat with the next lot of dole-outs, and hopefully so given another 100 basis points lopped off mortgage rates, then Australia might just proved the punters ...

Bigger fish to fry

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2009
... deposits, assisted the auto industry and created a lending facility to the commercial property sector. There are plans to dole out more government largesse. Never mind if the Budget goes from a surplus to a deficit. This is precisely what the surplus ...