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Quo vadis dollar-A?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
... "falling commodity prices, declining mining investment and reduced government spending," (as reported by the Sydney Morning Herald back then). Most of the "Ifs" have been hit - falling commodity prices, declining mining investment, reduced government ...

RBA to business: release the animal in you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
... contrasted this with the "As jobless numbers climb, RBA is perilously close to a rare mistake" headlined by the 'Sydney Morning Herald' on 12 August. Columnist William Pesek's column on Bloomberg titled "Australia's Jobless Rate Should Worry the Fed" ...

Claims against advice arm have no factual basis: Macquarie

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2014
... Australian Press Council (APC). In a statement on its website, Macquarie said that it planned to refer the Sydney Morning Herald 's articles to the APC, "given the inaccurate, unattributed and unsubstantiated claims they contain." The group said that ...

Fixed it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2014
... vulnerability to rising interest rates because of their reliance on offshore funding. Moody's even went further: Sydney Morning Herald (18 May 2011) - "Moody's Investors Service has downgraded the long-term debt ratings of Australia's big four banks ...

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi, Oi, Oi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
... Review (AFR) on 24 Feb - yes less than four months ago - "$A dollar to hit US66Ac: Deutsche Bank" - and the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) published on the same day - "Fears Australian dollar facing 'benign collapse' to $US66Ac". That time, the A$ was trending ...

Nothing's good enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2014
... growth was mainly all due to the 1.4 percentage point contribution from net exports to the economy. The Sydney Morning Herald prints on its website, "Economists were caught off guard by the pace of the export growth, saying the mining boom had shifted ...

Murray shuns FoFA commissions' debate

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2014
... at the Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia (ICAA) Business Forum in Sydney, Murray was asked by Sydney Morning Herald journalist Michael Pascoe, who hosted the session: "Do you agree with reintroducing commissions through FoFA changes or not?". ...

NAB and FSC tight-lipped on Hockey meetings

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
... involvement in Treasurer Joe Hockey's cash-for-meetings program reported by Fairfax this morning. Both The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age this morning reported that Joe Hockey is offering meetings with himself in return for political donations through ...

HESTA non-committal on Transfield divestment

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014
... their retirement funds invested in Manus Island detention centre, which Transfield runs. Speaking to the Sydney Morning Herald on Wednesday, the ASU's NSW/ACT president Sally McManus said ASU's contingent of welfare workers were "not impressed that Transfield ...

A-dollar zero point six six

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
... fearless forecast that the Australian dollar would be worth 0.66 dollar-US by the end of next year. The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) even reproduced the charts Adam used to back up his forecast... and they looked oh so convincibable. Wanna look? Look ...