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Which way USA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2010
... is here to stay. This includes net exports - the difference between what America buys from abroad to what it sells. And guess what? America bought much more from offshore than it sold. US exports contributed 1.27 per cent to second quarter growth but ...

Unusually certain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUL 2010
There you go. I guess the economic outlook does not "remain unusually uncertain" now. This is if you believed yesterday's headlines that the cause of Wall Street's fall the previous day was because of Ben Bernanke's statement that, "the economic outlook ...

Just a typical pause

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUL 2010
... vested interest in talking the market up? So I went and checked to see whether his words were backed by historical evidence. Guess what? He's absolutely correct! Investigating US real GDP data going as far back as the 1950s, I found that, indeed, the ...

Ban insurance commissions in super: Cooper

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2010
... surprised the recommendation came through - but is not overtly concerned about the changes. "If this ends up getting vetoed, I guess from the point of view of the adviser, it's a loss of revenue. "[But] if the revenue is then incorporated into our advice ...

Bad news bears

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2010
Looks like the financial markets are not getting any reprieve from this month's instalment of economic data releases. You guessed it! It was another down day on Wall Street overnight as Murphy's Law made its presence felt. "If anything could go wrong ...

First femme PM

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2010
... herself is unsure. She's not moving into the Lodge until after she gets the popular mandate if she wins the next elections. I guess we'll just have to wait and see. Australian equity markets - the mining companies, in particular - welcomed Julia's call ...

To spend or not to spend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2010
... threat to growth, diminished demand or escalating debt?" America proposes limiting the pace of pace austerity measures and... guess what? It's advocating more (yes more) stimulus measures to prevent the fragile global recovery from faltering. Else it ...

Mood change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2010
... Although, he didn't say much that the markets already didn't know, Big Ben Bernanke may have provided this spark. "My best guess is we will have a continued recovery, but it won't feel terrific." And there was really nothing significantly new in the ...

Stimulate and die

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2010
... nothing new between his comments he made at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars the other day -- " My best guess is we will have a continued recovery, but it won't feel terrific." -- and his testimony overnight before the US House Budget ...

The future according to Ben

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUN 2010
"My best guess is we will have a continued recovery, but it won't feel terrific." This is the future according to Ben. Spoken like a real trooper. With these words, Big Ben appears to have calmed financial markets - equity and commodity markets rose ...