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Inflated inflation scare

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
... artificially keeping their exchange rates low. And of course, climate change that has altered weather patterns around the globe. But in a way, this confirms our view that the global recovery continues to gather momentum. For another ingredient for rising ...

Better and better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 FEB 2011
... surged to 67.8 from 62.0 and the employment component rose to 61.7 from 58.9 But wait! Am I reading some dissent? From "The Globe and Mail" website: "David Rosenberg, chief economist at Gluskin Sheff + Associates Inc., points out that the ISM survey ...

Fees for alternatives under pressure

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2010
... to a Mercer survey of more than 20,000 asset management products from over 4,000 investment management firms across the globe, institutional investors are becoming increasingly cost conscious post GFC. But while alternatives are under pressure on the ...

ECB to QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 NOV 2010
... events in Europe into a gloom and doom scenario that would ultimately reverberate into a crisis everywhere else around the globe. But we've seen this all before. It happened in Latin America, it happened in Russia, it happened in Asia. Guess what? We're ...

QE2 overstays welcome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 NOV 2010
... happy. It's welcome has expired so quickly because of protestations and derisions coming from almost every corner around the globe (see http://www.financialstandard.com.au/news/view/30578/ ). More so because they see the Fed's largesse comes at their ...

Cheap talk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
... and D too? But they'll claim self defense. The point is the IMF has no teeth to effect sanctions on these giants of the globe - lest it wants its funding withdrawn. Now everyone's looking ahead at the G-20 Summit in November where currencies are expected ...

More US investment banks close prop desks

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 1 OCT 2010
... alternative investments. The Bank of America/Merril Lynch traders being let go are believed to come from locations across the globe including New York, London and Hong Kong, and amount to as much as a third of the company's prop trading business. Bank ...

Watching the A$ watch the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 SEP 2010
... if the global economy - primarily their economies - is slowing? What's Bloomberg's point? Is it trying to chop down the globe's tall poppy that is Australia? Is it trying to scare us, Australians, that soon we won't be able to afford overseas holidays? ...

Double positive

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2010
... positive. Positive manufacturing surveys out of the numero uno (United States) and numero dos (China) biggest economies in the globe ignited the fuse that sent Wall Street soaring last night. The US Institute of Supply Management (ISM) manufacturing ...

Infra bonds get conditional industry support

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2010
... infrastructure market," said Peter Scobie, head of credit at QIC, citing the success of similar initiatives in other parts of the globe, including the US. "Any push to develop the infrastructure market, we'd be supportive of," he added. But he cautioned ...