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Chill

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2015
"Chill out!" Although it could also apply, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) chief Glenn Stevens wasn't advising Russian President Vladimir Putin against having Turkey for Thanksgiving in retaliation for Turkey's - the country - downing of a Russian warplane ...

Are we there yet?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2014
... discourages business and consumer spending) plus the geo-political troubles at the eurozone's doorstep - Putin tit-for-tat, Syria, Iraq, Ebola - plus tighter fiscal budgets equals, more weakness. We've also been warning - you and I, Virginia - about ...

New masters of universe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
... financial press line up the usual suspects (and some freshly picked ones): interest rate concerns; geo-politics - Iraq, Syria, Russia, HK/China; tepid global growth; Ebola.... and then the dip buyers, the bargain hunters, the bottom fishers come... and ...

October h(a)unting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014
... now, the question must be asked: Is this going to be one of those Octobers? There's geo-political uncertainty - ISIS, Iraq, Syria and just recently... Hong Kong. There's a developing health epidemic - Ebola (recall how we peed our pants with SARS, bird ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014
... cent and the Nasdaq dropping close to two per cent. The slide was driven chiefly by concerns about the conflict in Iraq and Syria, and the prospect of interest rate rises in the US in 2015. But IG market strategist Stan Shamu said those drivers were ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
... significant falls. Shares were being weighed down by lower commodity prices, ongoing concerns about conflict in Iraq and Syria, and talk the US Federal Reserve will lift interest rates more quickly than expected over the next few years, CommSec market ...

US bond market says not yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2014
... Portugal and Banco Espiritu Santo (again), there's increased geo-political risks - Putin and the Ukraine, Israel and Hamas, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, etc - and rising volatility, there's the IMF "advising" China to slow its economic growth, there's the US ...

Dip-buying pays

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2014
... then there were three. Geo-political risks remain. People are still killing people in the Ukraine, in Gaza, in Libya, in Syria and in Iraq. This is a wild card for the markets, it also reminds me of Bob Dylan's classic, "... how many times must the cannon ...

Arrows and more arrows

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2014
... tomorrow, you know. The point I make is that geo-political risk has never left since early March when Russia annexed Crimea or Syria before that (and now we have Iraq (again), Gaza (again) and Libya (again)), the headlines just chose to ignore them when ...

Life's a bargain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014
... when Netanyahu was bombing Palestine- Hamas militants or not. And these exclude the murdering still going on in Iraq and Syria. The rational investor in me takes delight at this new turn of events... every crisis is an opportunity after all. Just think ...

Editor's Choice

Australia an 'efficient' market for multinationals

MATTHEW WAI
A new report by Mercator by Citco (Mercator) has revealed that while multinational organisations face significantly higher operations demands in Asia-Pacific (APAC), Australia has proven to be one of the most efficient markets.

Brighter Super default members earn 11% in FY25

KARREN VERGARA
Brighter Super's MySuper option achieved 10.9% p.a. for the 2025 financial year, exceeding performance for the medium and long term.

SIAA chief executive steps down

ELIZA BAVIN
Stockbrokers and Investment Advisers Association chief executive Judith Fox will step down after six years in the role.

GQG assets hit record high despite underperformance

KARREN VERGARA
GQG Partners' assets jumped $4 billion to reach a record high of US$172.4 billion for the 2025 financial year despite experiencing "short-term relative underperformance".

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