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You go NZ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2014
... guide to the direction of the cash rate, suggests the cash rate may rise as much as 1.25 percentage points this year." (Bloomberg) New Zealand's accelerating growth momentum is good for New Zealand and good for us living across the Tasman. After all ...

Punishing Putin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2014
... Harper has warned Russia could be expelled from the G8 if it continues its military intervention in Ukraine..." And Bloomberg reports that, "The U.K. said it won't send government ministers to watch the Paralympics." Vladimir being Putin, methinks it'll ...

Reheating the cold war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
... West, the US in particular, is being dragged into it. Good or bad, no one's talkin' bout the military option... for now. Bloomberg, for instance, quotes "Barbara von Ow-Freytag, who advised the German government from 2008 to 2013 on Russian issues" saying ...

Catching the big wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2014
... short order". Europe's bagged! But not before China got some major Asian countries - including Australia - in its bag. Bloomberg reported on 19 February that, "South Korea is moving closer to seeking the first direct trading between the won and the yuan ...

A tall tale of a good story

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
... equities while we slept. The weather was kept out of it - "U.S. Stocks Fall After Weaker Housing, Confidence Data" says Bloomberg. Sure, the S&P 500 index fell overnight - but by only an itsy bitsy teenie weenie 0.1% and this dip followed the previous ...

G-20 goes for growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2014
... stability, to "significantly raise" global growth and achieve its aim of increasing collective GDP in the next five years." (Bloomberg) They're going to "lift global economic activity by $US2 trillion ($A2.2 trillion) over the next five years...". ( ...

It must have been love

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2014
... think? Equity markets everywhere felt the 'love' on the week capped by Valentine's Day. One only has to browse through Bloomberg's headlines for one to see how much each one 'hearted' global stocks in the week ended the Valentine's Day: Love is in the ...

I swear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2014
... swear..." last night. For last night was not a good night. Wall Street dropped. Oh sowee, they didn't drop, they "slumped" (Bloomberg), they "tumbled" (AFR), they "slid" (Reuters), they suffered their largest fall since June 2013 (paraphrased to the ...

Japan's coming April fools' day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2014

It's good, it's bad, it's faked

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2014