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Chumbawamba rules

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
... hands. Perhaps this is because Putin wants to take back one state at a time... maybe after Ukraine. As The Economist magazine puts it, "Mr Putin believes that his own political future depends on the defence of Russia's regional influence-that is the ...

Indian optimism

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014
... unemployment rate at a high 9.9% (2012), its budget deficit predicted to reach 5.2% of GDP this year by The Economist magazine - from 4.5% in FY 2013/14 - and stubbornly high inflation.A Annual Indian CPI inflation bounced up to 8.6% in April from 8.31% ...

Buy me a house

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013
... Data-Rismark, home prices across Australia's eight states and territories have increased 5.3% in the year to July. The Economist magazine has an interactive chart that compares global house prices - nominal, real, against average income, against rent ...

Good US housing news gathers pace

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2012
... price analysis. Confirming the sentiment shift, analysis of US Department of Commerce housing figures by the Economist magazine show that while new housing starts year on year spiked in October to 3.8% up from 3.5% two months earlier, they are now at ...

Q3 will work

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
"Is QE3 enough to save America's economy?" The Economist magazine posed this question to its readers over the weekend. So far, the nays have it - 78% of them think QE won't cut it - because according to those who commented: even Bernanke admitted that ...

Fundamentally challenged

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
... might have added to the tail risk that is the "fiscal cliff" that's coming America's way at year's end. As The Economist magazine eloquently put it: "... by extending the expiration date of the programme to December 31st, the Fed accentuates the stimulus ...

Equity value - cheap or the new normal?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012
... that they're willing to lend at very low rate for a very long time to America. The country, which based on The Economist magazine's forecast, will have a budget deficit of 7.6% of GDP this year - slightly better than the 7.8% deficit expected for Greece ...

Better days are getting happier

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2012
... is a but. Lest I be accused of cherry picking, I now bring you the but. The but. That institution which The Economist magazine says is "perhaps the only organisation to give advance warning of each of the past three recessions; just as impressive, it ...

Somethin' good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2011
... already in recession and "to get a lot worse". What was worrying about this prognosis is that, according to The Economist magazine, ECRI "has never issued a false alarm." Well, as I like to say, there's a first time for everything. This might just be ...

Bear killer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2011
... policymakers couldn't do anything to head it off. What's alarming is that, according to ECRI's website, "The Economist magazine noted in 2005, "ECRI is perhaps the only organisation to give advance warning of each of the past three recessions; just as ...