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RBA to business: release the animal in you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
... 'Sydney Morning Herald' on 12 August. Columnist William Pesek's column on Bloomberg titled "Australia's Jobless Rate Should Worry the Fed" where Bill wrote that: "Folks in "The Lucky Country' have long been blessed with top-notch monetary policy makers. ...

Putin pontificates peace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014
... from one week to the next anyways. But should this be the start of a rising trend, it would stall the Fed. So what's the worry? Janet Yellen would be singing Cher's, "babe, I got you babe". Speaking of stall, that's exactly what the bad news on the Eurozone ...

Because I'm happy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
... previous day's ZEW survey revealing that German investor confidence dropped to their lowest level since December 2012. Don't worry, be happy for the more worries the happier we'll be. Super Mario Draghi told us so... only two months ago. Here's what ...

Dip-buying pays

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2014
... Equities, Treasuries, gold and copper closed basically unchanged overnight. Sure, sure there's still plenty of things to worry about on Wall Street. The latest of which is last night's report that US pending home sales fell by a bigger-than-expected ...

CBA whistleblower casts doubts over compensation scheme

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2014
... advice. The adviser, who blew the whistle on cases of advice misconduct within CBA, told Financial Standard that one cause of worry is that victims have to contact the bank, and not the other way around. Morris expressed similar concerns to litigator ...

Another October to remember?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2014
... be the state of play for as long as central banks provide more than psychological support to the financial markets. Don't worry, go shopping. They'll let us know when the time comes... in advance. But wait, hold your horses, hang on a moment! Isn't that ...

Budget reply speech 2014 -15: Bill Shorten

Regulation tops Australian business risk survey

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... Lambros Lambrou said. Following regulatory and legislative change, concern about local economic conditions is the next biggest worry. Australia's business sentiment continued to languish in 2013 and 2014 fuelled by predictions of a slowdown in economic ...

ECB to stay in May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014
... in the euro area... or so the ECB hopes. Then again, it's still early days. There's still the persistently strong euro to worry about. While it's up only a small 0.6% versus the US dollar this year, the euro has risen by a more significant 8.5% from ...

The music's still playing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2014
Who me? Worry, because... May is nigh? Looking at last night's trading action on Wall Street, Wall Streeters appear to be fear missing out (on more gains) more than they do that of the prospect of the "sell in May" crowd, going away in May. Just look ...