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Keynes & Riccardo on display

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2012
Financial markets sit and wait while the CBs meet. No one wants to be whipsawed either way. Not even the headlines... if anybody noticed. There is not the usual sensationalism that goes with each daily move in the markets - dragging out all the negative ...

Go ahead Europe, make my day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012
... counter measure - announcement following a big drop in equity prices. Certainly, S&P/Case Shiller composite index of US house prices made for good reading. House prices rose by 0.7% in April - the third straight month of increase and better than expectations ...

Wen Confucius meets Sun Tzu

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2012
... and China couldn't risk getting on his bad side - just in case he unseats Obama. This is because at the hearing of the US House Ways and Means Committee on China-US trade relations held late last year, Romney promised to designate China as a currency ...

No please explain needed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2012
... the US economy." (The Age). Moi, I'm not only 'LOL' but 'LMAO'. In his semi-annual Humphrey-Hawkins testimony to the US House Financial Services Committee, Big Ben noted the continued improvement in the economy but "the pace of expansion has been uneven ...

Bankruptcy could be bliss

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
... small- and medium-sized companies." Even that scholar of the Great Depression realised this. In his testimony before the US House of Representatives just a little over than a week ago, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke declared that "Even as fiscal policymakers ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2011
... futures contract was 64 points lower at 4,406 points, with 19,742 contracts traded. The passage of legislation through the US House of Representatives towards allowing a lift in the US debt ceiling early on Tuesday (AEST) was not enough to ease investor ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
... Kalgoorly. On Friday, Australian shares hit a near 11-month low before negotiations in the US after Republican leaders in the US House of Representatives postponed a vote on legislation to avert the threatened August 2 debt default. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2011
... traded. RBS Morgans private client advisor Bill Bishop said progress in the US debt stalemate had buoyed the market. The US House of Representatives has passed legislation allowing a conditional $US2.4 trillion ($A2.25 trillion) increase in the nation's ...

Just replace because with despite

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2011
... cent in the month. We can use "despite" too when referring to the Federal Housing Finance Agency's report showing that US house prices dropped by a bigger-than-expected 2.5 per cent in the March quarter - the 15th consecutive quarterly fall. "Despite" ...

Inflated inflation scare

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
... into emerging economies and at the same time drive commodity prices higher. And given Big Ben's testimony before the US House Budget Committee last night, the money tap will continue to flow. There's really nothing new in his testimony, just a rehash ...