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Global deflation - the next worry?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2014
The details are still sketchy as I type but the shootings at Canada's Parliament in Ottawa may just have been the reason dip-buyers were waiting for to cash in the gains they bought during the previous week's bigger than usual dips. Not because of oil ...

New masters of universe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
... period from fiscal 2014 to 2016". Sure, sure Shirley. That's not the indication given by the latest CPI report. It showed core CPI (excluding the direct impact of the tax hike) easing to 1.1% annual rate in August from 1.3% in July and June from 1.4% ...

HOSTPLUS to buy $600m Woolworths properties

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2014
Industry super fund HOSTPLUS had joined forces with Charter Hall Group to acquire a $603 million portfolio of properties from Woolworths-owned ALH Group. Woolworths described the deal, which is due to go down in October, as "one of the largest hotel ...

Super Mario to the rescue (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
Financial markets didn't get the kitchen sink they were hoping for but the fridge - along with the promise that the kitchen sink would come later - was good enough. With the eurozone economy in a coma - second quarter real GDP growth was zero - and ...

Arrows and more arrows

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2014
It's so stupid, it's become not funny anymore. Talks about easing geo-political risk causing investors to go back into risk assets overnight -- the same way increased geo-political risk sent them away the night before. Geo-political risk down, Wall ...

AustralianSuper balanced option returns 13.88% in FY13

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2014
The equity markets' rally has contributed in AustralianSuper balanced option delivering 13.88% returns after investment fees and taxes for financial year 2013. The result was influenced by equity markets rallying both in Australia and globally. The ...

Third arrow, broken arrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2014
oh there we have it folks! Wall Street ends the last day of the month, the quarter and the first six months of 2014, to quote T.S. Elliot, "not with a bang but a whimper. If you must know Virginia, the S&P 500 index finished a teenie-weenie 0.04% lower ...

Indian optimism

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014
"Never underestimate the power of optimism". I've never forgotten this slogan since children cancer charity "Camp Quality" advertised it on Victorian (Australia) television some years back. A click on its website shows that this slogan has now been ...

BOE qualifies for World Cup

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
Anything you guys can do, I can do better... If the Fed, BOJ, ECB and PBOC could do it - forward guiding markets that monetary policy would remain easy (easier next month in the case of the ECB) - why couldn't the BOE? Yes it could! By most indications ...

Japan's 1997 deja vu

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
Despite market optimism over 'Abenomics' and widespread expectations that the Bank of Japan (BOJ) would eventually announce further expansion of monetary policy, Japan's stock market continues to trend lower. The Nikkei-225 index has sunk by 11.4% so ...