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Surefire Melbourne Cup bet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2017
Want a sure bet for next week's Melbourne Cup? Bet on the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) not moving on interest rates when its board meets on Melbourne Cup Day, Tuesday 7 November. Yes Virginia, I know, it's like saying that sugar is sweet and made ...

FS Live Blog: 2017 AFA National Adviser Conference

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2017
Check out this blog to get an hourly update on the latest announcements, session highlights and social media commentary live at the AFA 2017 National Adviser Conference. 10.30pm - AFA caps its annual conference with an awards gala ceremony for the 2017 ...

Jump goes the Aussie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUL 2017
... May 2018 increased to 91% from 52% (before the RBA minutes' release), or as Goldman Sach's predicts, as early as Melbourne Cup Day this November. Never mind that markets ignored the final paragraph in the RBA minutes indicating the Australian central ...

Clinton or Trump or bust?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2016
If you've placed a bet on last week's Melbourne Cup - and lost - poor you. But while "the race that stops a nation" has come and gone, we're only a few sleeps away from the race that could stop the world. Clinton and Trump's race for the White House ...

CPI says RBA no go on Melbourne Cup Day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 OCT 2016
You can bet the house on your favourite steed come 1 November, Melbourne Cup Day, but not on the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) shaving another 25 basis points off the official cash rate that currently stands at a record low 1.5%. This is the message ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2016
... number of centenarians is growing so fast that the Japan Times news service recently reported they no longer receive a silver cup from the government when they make it to their 100th birthday due to the spiraling cost of such a program. In Australia ...

FIIG appoints former Wallaby to senior QLD role

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2016
... Lawyers. Connors also played for the Wallabies from 1999 to 2000, having partaken in Australia's victory in the 1999 Rugby World Cup. He has also played 134 games for the Queensland Reds and is currently the team's most capped player ever. At FIIG, Connors ...

Standard Life Investments sponsors 2017 Lions tour

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2016
... and build our brand around the world." Standard Life Investments, is also the first and only worldwide partner of the Ryder Cup. The latest tie-up follows NAB's recent appointment of former All Black Andrew Mehrtens as associate director of business ...

Pick a number

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2015
The nation stops today - Melbourne Cup Day and RBA decision day. I don't know which bet's an easier pick, choosing the winning horse where there are equines a-plenty to bet on or the RBA's decision on interest rates where it's practically a coin-flip. ...

Christmas in October

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2015
... Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is lucky. By the time Gov Glenn and his Board meets on Tuesday next week (3 November Melbourne Cup Day), the RBA would have the whole hog on what its bigger peers have done and/or are thinking.