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Headlining the core

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2011
All this talk about prices heating up is melting financial market optimism. Investors have every right to be worried if, indeed, the cost of goods and services continue to head north. Last night's report that UK inflation jumped to 4.0 per cent - double ...

Smarter annuities can plug retirement savings gap

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
Leading superannuation expert and academic John Evans believes there are more ways to develop the annuities market than are currently being explored. The uncertainty attached to longevity, or people outliving their savings, and its impact on the wider ...

Whatever the question, the answer is China

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2011
This week's Financial Standard chief economist breakfast forum heard that no matter what the economic question, the answer always seems to be China and how we seize it's opportunities, contain its inflation threats and redirect its capital flows. The ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2011
The Australian dollar was slightly lower at noon after following a sell-off on the weekend prompted by anti-government protests in Egypt. At 1200 AEDT on Monday, the local unit was trading at 98.89 US cents, down from 99.01 cents on Friday. Since 0700 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2011
... we are regarding the global economic and domestic economic recovery," he said. "If you look in Australia, we've had a low CPI (consumer price index), so that would tend to indicate that the Reserve Bank of Australia is going to keep rates lower for longer ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 JAN 2011
... cent year on year, well inside the Reserve Bank of Australia's target of two to three per cent. "We saw a rather subdued CPI (consumer price index) print come in this morning, so that saw the Aussie fall about 40 pips (two fifths of a US cent)", CMC ...

Best house in the slums

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 DEC 2010
Poor little rich kid. If you look at the performance of the Australian stock market since the start of the year and nothing else, you would be forgiven for concluding that the economy downunder is not enjoying the cheer of this yuletide season, no siree. ...

China inflation fears overplayed

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 10 DEC 2010
Financial markets are nervously awaiting the release of Chinese inflation figures this weekend, but one fund manager believes that the concerns are overdone - and the multi-year bull market in Asian equities is only just beginning. Fears are building ...

Fed & RBA on the ball

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
Phew! That was one hell of a ride wasn't it? Now that our collective heartbeats have calmed down to their resting pace, what now? Well let's see. As far as Ireland goes, it's going... to do something, that is. It's got the weight of Europe plus the ...

Head faked again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 NOV 2010
"Well, it's a three step process. First, you think I'm going left. But I don't. So now you're thinking, am I going to go right or even confuse him by going left. So I go left again. Now you think I'm finally gonna go right but what I'm really gonna ...