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Free money can be costly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  SUNDAY, 23 NOV 2008
Inflation is out and deflation is the new black. If the prospect for falling prices becomes entrenched even free money will be expensive. Just over four months ago when crude oil reached nearly US$150 a barrel, many central bankers remained keenly focused ...

The luckier country

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2008
The Australian equity market continues to follow the fortunes of its peers in America, Europe and Asia although economic and business fundamentals here are in much better shape than most of its global counterparts. So far this year, developed equity ...

Sentiment seesaw

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2008
Up and down we go, where it stops we do not know. Wall Street's performance overnight highlights how tenuous financial market sentiment remains. The sentiment seesaw became obvious as the Dow Jones industrial index went from a 4.4 per cent loss to a ...

Whac-a-mole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2008
This Week's Market Movers (15 - 19 Sep 2008) The market jubilation that followed the US Treasury's rescue of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac early last week quickly faded as problems in Lehman Brothers, Washington Mutual and American International Group ...

Capex & Credit at the forefront

BENJAMIN ONG  |  SUNDAY, 24 AUG 2008
This Week's Market Movers (25 - 29 Aug 2008) Last week's economic releases continued the common theme of global weakness and elevated inflation. Financial market activity were once again volatile as thin trading volumes exaggerated downward moves in ...

Time out for specialist funds

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2008
A group of investors and asset consultants, sitting on a panel at an InAssociation infrastructure conference in Sydney on Wednesday, was asked to make a call on the future of the investment bank specialist funds model. They agreed it was over. The infrastructure ...

Watching the US$ and commodities

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2008
This Week's Market Movers (18 - 22 Aug 2008) The dearth of key market moving factors indicates this week that financial market activity will continue to focus on the rapid appreciation of the US dollar against most major currencies and the decline in ...

Nothing new

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2008
Key economic data released overnight provided no new insight for financial markets but only to confirm the current state of the world - that of slowing growth and still high inflation. While inflation appears to be easing in Australia, consumer prices ...

Growth and inflation updates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2008
This Week's Market Movers (11 - 15 Aug 2008) Key growth and inflation statistics from the major world economies will compete with the 29th Olympiad in Beijing in holding market attention this week. Australia: The week starts off with the release of ...

RBA rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2008
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) meets today to assess the country's monetary policy settings. Financial markets remain convinced that the RBA will hold rates at a 12-year high of 7.25 percent after its meeting today. However, recent data showing ...