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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2009
... conducts a tender for $700 million in May 2021 bonds. AOFM chief executive Neil Hyden speaks at the Australian business economists lunch on Australian government debt in a changed financial world. In company news, QBE Insurance Ltd holds its annual general ...

Jobless rate in perspective

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
... rates steady at 5.25 per cent for 15 consecutive months, the RBA lifted rates to 5.5 per cent in March and back then economists were expecting more rate hikes because of this 'low' unemployment rate which threatens inflation. Similarly, the 28 April ...

Subsidise financial advice: Shiller

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2009
... Exuberance' at a financial planning forum in Sydney this morning. Dr. Shiller, ranked one of the top 100 most influential economists in the world, and among those who predicted last year's financial crisis as far back as five years ago, was the keynote ...

Riccardian equivalence redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2009
... first bailout acronym - TARP -- for the financial sector TARP - last year, I wrote about a theory taught us budding economists called the 'Riccardian equivalence.' In simple terms, the Riccardian equivalence theory posits that it does not matter how ...

Transcending politics

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2009
... whatever the final amount of the package, something has to be done and it has to be done now. To quote President Obama, 'Economists from across the spectrum have warned that if we don't act immediately, millions more jobs will be lost, and the national ...

Focus on the good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2009
... us. It will get worse before it gets better. This was also the take home message from the Financial Standard's Chief Economists Conference held in Melbourne yesterday. It'll be bad in the first half of 2009 and then things start improving by the second. ...

More bombshells before the recovery

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
... the doldrums, said the panelists of an industry briefing held this morning. Speaking at the Financial Standard Chief Economists Forum in Sydney, Craig James, chief equities economist at Commonwealth Securities, said that he predicts the index to dive ...

Beautiful set of numbers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
... full-time jobs were created. This is the biggest gain since July this year. And this is what matters most based on what we economists refer to as the permanent income hypothesis. Milton Friedman developed this hypothesis back in 1957, arguing that consumption ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
... points at 3,740. In economic news, Reserve Bank of Australia governor Glenn Stevens addresses the Australian Business Economists annual dinner after the Economic Forecast 2009 Conference. National Australia Bank releases its business survey for November. ...

Calls to cut super contribs fails to get traction

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
... putting superannuation into the economic frontline and making it part of our monetary policy heavy artillery. A group of economists lead by Nick Gruen, principle of the Lateral Economics consultancy, has written to the Prime Minister proposing that employer ...