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QE paradox in reverse

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013
... clever men and women minting that first dollar without ever thinking when and how it'll get it back. This renewed panic attack in the markets has just deferred QE withdrawal day by one extra day at the very least. It's sort of the QE paradox we witnessed ...

Beans means Buffet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013
... 9 October 2007 - just another 2.8% to go and it's there? And then what? Having reached the peak, will investors get an attack of vertigo or will it become a springboard for setting a new one? Trying to answer this question with definite, accurate certainty ...

Serpentine fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2013
... Chinese forces crushed pro-democracy protests around Beijing's Tiananmen Square". The Courier Mail adds that, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941 also happened in the Year of the Snake and so did "the 1929 stock market plunge that heralded the ...

Australian pay rate growth underperforms Asia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012
Wage growth rates in Australia are significantly lagging Asia, but rather than showing Australia to be under-performing they reflect inflation and productivity growth differentials. A survey just released by the global management consultancy, Hay Group ...

They will or they won't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012
... meeting to decide on the best course of policy action for the US economy later today. All bets are in and after yesterday's attack of the nerves, it appears that financial markets are betting that they - both the German court and the FOMC - will. In ...

AIA innovates around adviser feedback

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2012
... disease, the second largest cause of all AIA Australia Crisis Recovery claims, AIA has amended its definition of heart attack under its Crisis Recovery benefit. The improved definition removes any doubt of payment, in the event of a heart attack, regardless ...

Mexican standoff

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2012

Big Ben boosta

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2012
... I know we could break through it." It didn't take long, did it? It took only a few days of Wall Street experiencing an attack of the wobbles and here we have our ol' friend Ben calming nerves with a karaoke rendition of James Ingrams's classic, "Just ...

Unions, AIST hit back at Abbott comments

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2012
... retirement income. "This is the leader of the alternative Government of the nation signalling very clearly his intention to attack one of the best performing sectors of the superannuation industry," said O'Connor. "Taking workers' money out of industry ...

Upside surprises to surprise on the upside

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2012
Is this what the other side looks like? 'Twas exactly a week ago today that financial markets suffered an attack of the jitters as all things dark and gloomy flashed before their eyes. You, I and Irene remember that day oh so well. The day there was ...