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Slow and steady as she goes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
WOW! Seen the latest ADP private payrolls number last night? The report showed 281,000 Americans found jobs in the private sector in June. This is the biggest monthly addition since the 293K added back in November 2012 and... it beat even the most optimistic ...

Whatever works

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2014
While Crimea's vote to secede from Ukraine and re-join Mother Russia - and the tit for tat sanctions between the US and Europe and Moscow - and speculation over the faster- and sooner-than-predicted US Federal Reserve hike in interest rates hogged most ...

Savings trap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2013
... consecutive quarter of decline - while investments in the non-resource (non-residential) sector of the economy continues to flatline. And yes, gentle readers...you're right to conclude that record low interest rates are not having their desired on the ...

Digging dirt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2012
... statistics revealing that at least two companies a day are going to the wall as labour costs continue to rise, profit margins flatline and banks play hardball on funding." "Outside mining, Australia is in the midst of a downturn in residential, commercial ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
... RBA rates decision day. The market is pretty much around where we thought it would around which is idling around the flatline." Wall Street finished mixed after news that US manufacturing contracted for the first time in almost three years in June, raising ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012
... broader All Ordinaries index was down 8.7 points, also 0.2 per cent, at 4,325.7. NEW YORK - US stocks closed mixed near the flatline Tuesday after the release of data showing continuing weakness in home prices and slumping consumer confidence. The Dow ...

Chimerica threat looms over returns

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 FEB 2011
A leading fund manager argues that many investors are too pessimistic about the US and too optimistic about other markets, particularly China. Speaking at a lunch briefing yesterday, Martin Conlon, head of Australian equities at Schroder Investment ...

Usual uncertainty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUL 2010
"Unusually uncertain" indeed! Flat, flat, flat. This is how the most major equity markets from Asia to Europe to Wall Street finished the past 24 hours. Some closed a little bit higher, others a tad lower, most just flatlined. Because of the "unusually ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2010
... Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke confirmed investor fears that the economy has weakened. Stocks traded near the flatline just before Dr Bernanke began his half-yearly testimony to Congress on monetary policy, but quickly headed south as he began ...

Going nowhere fast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2010
Flatline. That's what you'll see when you look at Wall Street's pulse monitor this morning. I would be too if faced with the same old, same old daily boring stuff that financial market agents look at everyday. While we were sleeping, a raft of economic ...