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Amigos para siempre

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
... Bernanke said the central bank must focus on the U.S. rather than overseas economies when trying to spur the recovery by purchasing an additional $600 billion in Treasuries." "Our first objective, the first goal that we have, is to meet our mandate to ...

Be wary of lowball offer: AUI

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2010
... Investments (AUI) has written to retail and wholesale investors advising them to be wary of an offer from Direct Share Purchasing Corporation (DSC) to purchase units in the Australian Unity Mortgage Income Trust. The DSC offer is 80 cents per unit, a ...

Parity not quite a party

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 OCT 2010
... increase by 85,000. Yes, Australia's athletes and its currency are currently the pride of the nation. We now have greater purchasing power when we buy those imported produce we so dearly love. And guess what? We can travel cheaply to the countries that ...

Australia's big bro

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 OCT 2010
... continued strength in the Chinese economy. Not to mention, last Friday's report of a stronger Chinese manufacturing purchasing managers index in September. You want to know where the Australian dollar and Australian interest rates and the outlook for ...

The good smoke

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2010
... Bloomberg, "Naoko Ogata, a senior researcher at the Japan Research Institute, a Tokyo-based think tank, predicts last-minute purchasing of cigarettes this month will boost consumer spending in the quarter ending September 30 by 0.2 to 0.6 percentage ...

Watching the A$ watch the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 SEP 2010
... dollar? I linked this in because of a recent Bloomberg report that the "Aussie is 27 per cent too expensive" based on purchasing power parity. This means that the Australian dollar should be trading at around US$0.6843 against the greenback instead of ...

Torturing the data

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2010
... increases in the price of autos and petrol. Yeah right! As if US consumers get their cars and gasoline for free and not purchasing them out of their income. No wait, I confess you're right a double-dip is coming because retail sales maybe up 5.5 per ...

Running of the bulls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 AUG 2010
... income surged by 31 per cent in the second quarter. There was not so good news out of China. HSBC China Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index slid to 49.4 in July from 50.4 in June. Below 50! That spells contraction. But this is the contraction China ...

Boring

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUL 2010
... due out tonight... and they could contain nasty surprises. US real GDP, the employment cost index (ECI), the Chicago Purchasing managers survey and the University of Michigan consumer sentiment index are all set for release this evening. At least we ...

House call

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2010
... good news puzzle. It was more than "experts" expectations for a gain to 310,000 units. It suggests that buyers may be purchasing property again. After all, the Commerce Department report also notes that sales in all regions -except for the West - increased. ...