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Cloudy skies in the land of the rising sun

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2017
With the prices of Australia's major commodity exports - coal and iron ore -- trending lower this year, let's all spend a minute silence and pray that yesterday's report of a massive slump in exports - down 8.0% in the month of April - was indeed an ...

Sun rising in Japan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 JAN 2017
The sun appears to be rising in the Land of the Rising Sun. Japanese consumer confidence rose to a reading of 43.1 in December from 40.9 in the previous month supported by a rally in the stock market and the yen's depreciation versus the US dollar. ...

NZ Super seeks factor investing strategies

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2016
Global asset managers recently pitching factor-based investing in Australia should also target New Zealand as one of the country's institutional investors is keen to implement the strategy. In its latest investment environment report the New Zealand ...

Down, down prices are down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2016
... any significant impact? Au contraire, it might have unintended consequences, sending a message that all is not good in land of Oz, prompting businesses to defer/withhold investing - in plant, equipment & machinery and staff - and consumers to defer spending ...

OneVentures says VC needs scale in Australia

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2016
... opportunities. OneVentures partner and managing director Dr. Paul Kelly said the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) had been the land of the walking dead for many, many early stage companies. "If you tell that story well, there is enough appetite out ...

Five minutes of commodity sunshine?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
... have risen overnight. Hurrah for Aussie miners! This where it gets tetchy for a commodity exporting country like this land of Oz. Time and again, commodity prices have bounded - in July 2012, in July 2013, in March 2014 and in May this year --...and ...

Stimulate or deflate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2015
... December's 1.5% rate. More, producer prices have fallen for the 35th straight month in January. Need we say more about that "land of falling prices" that is Japan. The hope is that all these stimuli would stimulate demand and stoke inflation some day ...

The Grinch is stealing Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2014
... renewed contraction in the New Year unless demand shows signs of reviving." You call that bad news? Take a look at the land of the rising sun, or in this case, the land where the sun couldn't rise - Japan. As if the 1.6% annualised rate of contraction ...

Un-taper re-reflate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
... Wall Street remains in no mood for celebration even as America commemorated the day Christopher Columbus discovered their land of milk and honey and hotdogs - the Dow's down by 1.4%, the S&P 500 by 1.7% and the Nasdaq by 1.5%. Lessons of scares past ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
... financial markets' worry about the Fed was too much ado about "considerable time". Any moment now, we'll get to know how the land of "Braveheart" and scotch on the rocks - Scotland - voted with regards to their divorce with Britain. And then there are ...