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Refreshing pause

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
... slightly up, revised up -- over the past 12 months, I wonder why some still attach credibility to these international bodies' guess? Heck, they could not even get it right during relatively stable times. Besides, as I pointed out yesterday, the WB had ...

Fund manager pioneers voice technology

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2009
... after the 2009 Salmat VeCommerce Identity Verification Study found more than half of respondents felt someone else could guess their passwords and other details and almost 60 per cent said someone else knew their details. The sale and delivery of the ...

Good news in inaction

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2009
... Central Bank (ECB), the Bank of England (BoE) and the Bank of Canada (BoC) all held monetary policy meetings last week. And guess what? Not a single central bank announced a reduction in interest rates. Not one announced further policy easing measures ...

May sell or May stay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2009
... theories, studies and reports proving or disproving this quotation come a-visiting. By merely stating this observation, I guess I too am guilty as charged. But May 2009 holds a special, if not critical, significance for equities. Selling now risk eroding ...

Sick of swines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2009
... '...so far no one has died outside Mexico' in the countries with suspected cases. I repeat, too much ado about swine flu. Guess someone wants a handout too. Who? Yes, W.H.O. -- World Health Organisation. Enough said. What really moved, or rather did ...

Rated AAA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2009
... from A3 and its preferred stock to Ca from Baa1. Fitch also did the same. Cant' find anything on Standard & Poor's but my guess is they went the way of Moody's and Fitch. Where the bloody hell were they one day, one week, one month, one year before the ...

Danger, Will Robinson!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
... the biggest peacetime deficit in more than a century and tallies to around 12.4 per cent of the UK's economic output. I guess Britons would not be calling the Chancellor 'darling' anymore after this. Nobody could argue against the Chancellor's move towards ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2009
... situation where we had a pretty good run and I think that the market was due for a bit of a correction," Mr Taylor said. "I guess you could say that we are still in the storm and we had been sailing along quite smoothly in calm waters with a tail wind ...

IMF and Swan riding on doom

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
What are they up to? What do they hope to accomplish? I am talking, of course, about the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and our very own Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan. What do they have in common? Both still have not learned their lessons. Both want ...

Super queries drop despite GFC

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2009
If you think investors are frantically ringing super fund call centres to ask about their investments, guess again - the number of calls fielded by Pillar Administration has fallen since the start of the GFC, said Peter Beck, the firm's chief executive. ...