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Sweeet!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
Greece is saved... again! Wall Street back to worrying about the cliff... again! Yes Virginia, this is another I told you so moment. You, I and Irene expected these to happen all along: We won't have closure on that US$607 billion fiscal cliff until ...

Pool local govt infra projects to attract investors: E&Y

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2012
... structures to make them more attractive to superannuation funds. The report by Ernst & Young suggests that the national government investigate establishing a financing authority which would have a mandate to invest directly in local government programs. ...

Lonsec: Australian equity markets ready to rebound

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2012
Australian equity markets are ready to rebound following the RBA's rate cut this week, according to research house Lonsec. "History shows that a period of successive rate cuts nearly always leads to a strong rally in Australian equities," said Bill ...

Fixville here we come

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011
"Betcha by golly wow You're the one that I've been waiting for..." -Stylistics Hear ye, hear ye, the Europeans have reached an accord - and financial markets liked the sound of that. Major European equity indices soared between 2.9% (FTSE-100) and 6.3 ...

NZ Govt to enrol extra 1m into Kiwisaver

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2011
... extra 1 million members will require the NZ government to increase borrowings by $A600 million. New Zealand's national government debt is estimated to be 31% of GDP. In Australia the corresponding figure is less than 20%. According to figures available ...

Whac-a-mole 2.0

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
... expected whac-a-mole 2.0 is an upgraded, bigger version where instead of only financial institutions, whole national government's heads are included for extra fun. Yes Virginia, just when we thought that the Fed has whack the head of deflation and unemployment ...

Turning Bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2010
Dear Abby, I have a confession to make...I think I'm losing my horns and my tail is growing shorter. My body is slowly being covered with fur, what used to be hooves are now claws and I am getting an unusual craving for honey. OMG! I think I'm turning ...

Now that's challenging

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2010
We knew 2010 would be challenging, but not this way. Not like this. Yes Virginia, we agreed that 2010 would be challenging. We thought it would be challenging because America would experience turtle-paced economic growth at best. We thought it would ...

U V W X Y Z

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2009
What's this? We're back into discussing the alphabet soup of the coming recovery? Would the global economy's recovery take the shape of a V? Will it be a U or a W? My oh my Virginia, I'm getting tired and very ill with all these discussions. For me ...

September mourn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2009
Zap!...Ka-pow!...Thwap!...Sprunch! The dead cat bouncers hit back! 'Twas only yesterday I was pondering the timing of when the bouncing dead cat would hit the ground again. For as adamant as the dead cat bounce camp is that the deceased feline will ...