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From oil at US$300 to oil at US$30

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2014
... competitive advantage and marginal propensity to produce. The thing that got to me though are forecasts and predictions - nay, extrapolations would be a better term - that prices would continue to slide forevermore. Like this fearless forecast from Mr. ...

Northstar joins Chan & Naylor joint venture partnership

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014
Sydney-based accounting firm Northstar has become the latest to joint venture partner of national accounting and advice firm Chan & Naylor. The deal will see Chan & Naylor take an equity share in the company in return for driving mutual growth. Northstar ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
... What do you do when you reach a peak? You take a breather, enjoy the view and smile (or LOL) at all the naysayers who bet, 'nay, you'll never make it'. That's exactly what Wall Street did overnight. The S&P 500 index hardly budged - up 0.01% -- to close ...

IOOF appoints national technical manager

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
Financial services company IOOF has appointed a new national manager, technical services. A long-term participant in the financial services industry Kate Anderson has joined IOOF from Super IQ, where she was the head of technical. In her role Anderson ...

But they said it was Iraq

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
... fall on Wall Street. Yes, Virginia there wasn't any mention of Iraq. Wall Street rebounded overnight despite continuing - nay, escalating -- tensions in Iraq (there done, Iraq mentioned) and reports that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko threatened ...

Front-runners

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
In big picture terms, not much happened last week. Yes Virginia, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept policy unchanged - as expected. The European Central Bank (ECB) guided forward but also stayed on the sidelines. US non-farm payrolls added another ...

No guarantee

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
... change in the reduction of its monthly asset purchases. What's changing though is the Peoples Bank of China's (PBOC) thinking - nay, it's all as planned. Recall how it took away free yuan lunches? When it allowed the yuan to fall sharply less than two ...

Subjected to interpretation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014
Well, well, well, looks like someone - nay, many, many ones - woke up on the right side of the bed this morning. Well... yesterday morning to be precise, as I refer to the stock market action on Wall Street and in Europe and in emerging markets. It's ...

Bears out a-haunting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013
... trumpets trumpeting the overnight "jump" in the VIX index - the 'fear gauge' - to its highest reading this year but I'm not sure (nay, I'm certain) that a reading of 20.62 does not read fear. Recall the fiscal cliff heading into 2013? The VIX index was ...

The missing link

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2013