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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2016
... topline orders series is highly volatile due to wild swings in the transportation component, mainly aircraft & parts. Defense aircraft & parts dropped by 44.8% in September after posting an 18.2% increase in the previous month while those for non-defense ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2016
... expectations for a 1.9% decline and could be attributed to the volatile transportation orders which saw a sharp 21.9% fall in non-defense aircraft orders in August (following a 73.7% jump in the previous month). Year-on-year, total new durable goods ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2016
... fastest rate of increase since October last year. However, July's figure had been exaggerated by aircraft orders - non-defense aircraft and parts (up 89.9% in July); defense aircraft and parts (up 20.3%) - that boosted transportation orders by 10.5% ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2016
... fastest since last January. But it's not. The surge in the total for April was largely due to the 64.9% (not a typo) in non-defense aircraft and parts - one that will certainly be reversed in the following month - and an 8.9% increase in transportation ...

May sell may go away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2016
... Overall, there's really nothing much in April that we've not seen before, or to use Donald's - Rumsfeld (the former US defense secretary) not the Trump - they are "known knowns". Because of this, I'm tempted to speculate that it's the calendar... it's ...

Fedcident waiting to happen?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
... Greek saga went from simmer to boil) and way below the 2015 high of 22.39 (when the Swiss National Bank abandoned its defense of the Swiss franc - 15 January). Yup, the SNB brought more fear in the market - not one expected it - than this long-running ...

ASIC to face legal action over Storm Financial

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2015
... Financial Standard that it is possible to sue the regulator, but that no one has succeeded before. He expected the regulator's defense to argue that ASIC acted in good faith, an argument that the plaintiffs will need to overcome. The solicitor is confident ...

SNB dismantles defense

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2015
"Francogeddon", "currency tsunami", "shocker", "jaw-dropping". These are some of the words used to describe the Swiss National Bank's (SNB) decision to surrender and abandon the currency peg - erected back in September 2011 - against the euro last night. ...

Time to get shorty?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2014

Advice group sues online forum over negative review

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
... constitutes the tort of injurious falsehood." Whirlpool has now 30 days to reach an agreement with WCS Group or file a defense. WCS Group was not available for comment at the time of publishing.