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Too much ado about a speck

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2015
It didn't happen overnight, but it happened... yesterday. That thing I mused about exactly five months ago -12 March 2015 - China devalued its currency. (http://www.financialstandard.com.au/news/view/48312386) "It is perhaps still too early for QE ...

BOJ in (tactical) retreat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2015
"It's gonna be a bright (bright), bright (bright) sun-shiny day." -Everlife Equity markets from New York to Rio and old London town bounded sharply higher while you, I and Irene were still in the stage of REM sleep as optimism returned - more specifically ...

The good oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2014
Say it again, Homer. "I'm in a place where I don't know where I am!" For those who've just tuned in, Wall Street was going, even sending the S&P 500 index up by 1.3% overnight, until it slipped... on oil. The action du' nuit is captured in Bloomberg's ...

Citi appoints former ASIC deputy chair to board

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
Citibank Australia has appointed new non-executive director, former deputy chair of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) Belinda Gibson. Gibson was with ASIC from 2007 to 2013, where she had primary responsibility for the regulation ...

Goldilocks is back in town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014
Toto, I've a feeling we're back in Goldilocksville. Now that the headlines have grown tired of counting and recounting of lives lost - and collateral damages - the US/EU-Russia tits-for-tats, the "humanitarian" trucks toing and froing through the Ukrainian ...

Chumbawamba rules

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
Ho-hum. It's now so predictable that it's become so triple ho-hum boring. Yes folks, "Chumbawamba" still rules on Wall Street - it gets knocked down but it gets up again, nothing's ever going to keep it down. Only yesterday, I listed the list of crises ...

Bored to zzz

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... in the midst of the GFC in 2009? Those were also the days when financial musers like moi have more than our fair share to muse about. Bring back those days I say. These days, it's a real struggle to come up with something new. If it's not about the taper ...

Prescriptions galore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014

No guarantee

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
Ho-hum. This is how I felt early Saturday morning (or was it afternoon?). No Virginia, it wasn't because I had one drink too many the night before - still, I invoke my right to remain silent. 'Twas because that all-important, that mother of all eco ...

AFA Inspire initiative launched in Sydney

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2013
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) formally launched its Inspire initiative to provide a network and professional community for women in the financial advice industry at an event in Sydney last night. The initiative is aimed not only at financial ...