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Headlining the core

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2011
... Chinese stats office re-weighting of the CPI component - less food weight and more for housing items. The Wall Street Journal calculates that inflation would have been up 5.1 per cent using the old weights. Even in America, higher prices are being blamed ...

Cashed-up China eyes US investments

... possibilities with US president Obama during the recent state visit by China president Hu Jintao, reported the Asia Wall Street Journal. Lenovo is seen as having its finger of the pulse of US investments and political attitudes following its 2005 purchase ...

Of Jobs, Hu and Obama

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2011
... ultimately shake hands and announce their close and cordial partnership. President Hu has already told the Wall Street Journal that, "We both stand to gain from a sound China-US relationship, and lose from confrontation." President Obama, in turn, would ...

Shopping till unemployment drops

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2010
... keep on saving. That would be so un-American! They've developed "frugality fatigue" -- a term coined by the Wall Street Journal on 3 December 2010 when it reported on the better-than-expected Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving) sales. This is what ...

Danger everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 DEC 2010
... China, Will Robinson. In its bid to choke off inflation, Beijing might be strangling its economy to death. The Wall Street Journal reported that, "In a statement issued late Monday, the State Council, China's cabinet, said it will revise a government ...

Chireland hurdled

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
... its stress test. I wrote back then that the stress test results were too good to be true. In September, the Wall Street Journal printed that the July stress test only tested for potential losses on government bonds that are traded by the banks. Bonds ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
... the way, after reports the bank failed to win control of South Korea's fifth-largest bank. According to the Wall Street Journal, South Korea's Hana Financial Group won control of Korea Exchange Bank, beating ANZ. ANZ was up 19 cents at $23.27. Commonwealth ...

SelectingSuper celebrates top 2010 funds

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 5 NOV 2010
Asgard, CareSuper and Telstra Super were among the winners at this year's SelectingSuper Awards, which recognises Australia's top superannuation funds. This morning's SelectingSuper Awards in Melbourne, which featured TEN Network veteran sports journalist ...

Smaller QE2 is not all that bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
... form any other source, I would quickly dismiss it as plain rumour mongering. But no! It was the venerable Wall Street Journal that broke the news. "The central bank is likely to unveil a program of U.S. Treasury bond purchases worth a few hundred billion ...

Pigs are bacon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2010
... overestimated." In case you think that this is idle second hand bedroom chitchat, here's a print from the Wall Street Journal, "Geither told the Wall Street Journal that major currencies "are roughly in alignment now," a signal that the U.S. does not ...