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Aussie shares to rally within a year: Russell

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2012
... the local market to occur by the end of 2013, and 63% see it happening by the end of 2012/13 financial year. More than anything, a resolution for the eurozone debt crisis is what has managers optimistic, with over half of those surveyed listing this ...

Upside from frontier markets untapped: Feriani

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... not attract the same interest they may have had," says Feriani. "Frontier markets, or markets that are not defined as anything, have not been getting much interest at all." By riding out short term fluctuations for first-dibs on "the hidden gems," Feriani ...

Good jobs bad jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... White House in Washington to 63.6% last month. What to make of all these? All these make nothing. Mother hasn't settled anything at all -- both in terms of the November presidential elections and that of the economy's future. The Big O is correct for ...

Zelman opens new advice business

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
... Zelman said "My belief is that the rewards are great for those who provide value to their audience before asking for anything in return." Don Trapnell, director of Synchron said Zelman's business is a natural fit with his firm. "Aaron's very strong background ...

Spanish austerity and Chinese take-away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
... latest move and that, "I don't think we will be in a much different position than what would've occurred had we not done anything." Maybe, maybe not. Too bad economics is a social science. We cannot repeat the experiment, remove the QE variable, and ...

No BO news till elections please?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2012
... is obvious but according to the report, a senior EU official told Reuters that, "The Obama administration doesn't want anything on a macroeconomic scale that is going to rock the global economy before November 6." Of course, it was denied by "a U.S. ...

The Fed may have gone too far

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012
... risk-on assets have responded, but so has gold which has been sleeping for six weeks. "When it barks, it does not bark at anything," power said. Power questioned the decision altogether, suggesting, however unlikely, that it was time to start looking ...

Two down, one to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2012
... Merkel "lebe". These developments bring us back to my broader point that Europe's powers-that-are would do everything and anything in their power to keep the single currency area single. Next stop towards strengthening that singleness: Banking Union. ...

Time to stop the rot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2012
... balance sheet, the inflation and the debasement of the US dollar it'll generate afterwards, and so on and so forth. Noticed anything? They're almost exactly the same arguments raised before QE1 and pre-QE2. Unfortunately, we can't do QE in a lab, repeat ...

Put up or shut up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012
... bargains I bought when the GFC struck, added some more (close but not at the March 2009 bottom) - but never have I seen anything like this. By like this, I mean the outlook for financial markets and economies hanging in the balance by what Ben and Mario ...