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Deflation is the Darth Vader of the economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
... of deflation. This was Rueters' headline on 24 January 2014, "ECB's Draghi doesn't see deflation in euro area". By December of that year, inflation was at negative 0.2%. That looks like de-flation to me. The persistence of crude oil cheapness and the ...

UK on the go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2014
... three straight quarters between December 2011 and June 2012 rebounded in September 2012 and before shrinking anew in December of 2012 - to now, the fastest growing G7 country. UK GDP grew by 3.1% in the year to the March quarter this year - nearly double ...

Legg Mason bond fund upgraded by Lonsec

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2014
... California Bank (which later became First Interstate, then Wells Fargo), and became an SEC-registered investment advisor in December of that same year. The group has offices in Pasadena, Hong Kong, London, Melbourne, New York, SA£o Paulo, Singapore ...

ASIC examines risks posed by complex products

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2014
... by complex products and ASIC's approach to regulating complex products. The new report follows the publication in December of an International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) report, Regulation of retail structured products, which provides ...

RBA to raise rates in Wayne's world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2013
... billion in 2013/14; A$5.3 billion in 2014/15; A$7.5 billion in 2015/16. We know what happened hence. He recanted in December of the same year and prepared us, Australians all, for a small deficit....and just over a fortnight ago, the Grattan Institute ...

Debt free and dividend rich: Fiducian

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2013
... financial services provider Fiducian Portfolio Services has posted consolidated profit after tax for the half-year to December of $1.69 million, in a period that saw the company wrap up its two-year long system upgrade and acquisitions. This morning ...

We shall overcome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2011
... January - faster than the 2.4 per cent year-on-year rate in the previous month and the biggest annual decline since the December of 2 years ago. But did Wall Street care? The S&P 500 rose by 0.7 per cent to its highest level in three weeks. "We shall ...

Advisers must unite against AusFin

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2010
... Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) is calling on the profession to stand strong and united following the launch on 2 December of a powerful new group calling itself the Australian Financial Integrity Network (AusFin). AusFin counts amongst its members ...

Sellers beware

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2009
... the March number was less than half as bad as the more than 2 per cent monthly fall posted in October, November and December of last year. Add this to January and February's positive monthly gains and we have an indication that the downward adjustment ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2007
... Canberra departmental head Jane Drake-Brockman is due to meet again with Chinese counterparts after their meeting in December of last year ended in a stalemate. Presently the US and the EU have been unable to agree on reforms of agricultural trade practices. ...