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RBA holds rates but deploys rhetoric as magic pudding

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2012
... obliged to control inflation, but also to boost jobs and if it can do that by talking and avoiding policy action then that's magic." He added that with the government looking to return the budget to a surplus, it was in its interests to encourage the ...

Trilogy takeover attempt piracy: LM

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
... be offset by a rapidly diminishing unit price as proven by previous Trilogy takeovers," said Drake. Far from offering any magic solution to investors in the funds, Drake compares the promises being made by Trilogy to those made to investors of City Pacific. ...

China FDI flow slows, and?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012
... seven months of the year, with only less than five months to go before year end, it's looking unlikely that it can meet that magic US$120 bil. Data from the past two years showed that China managed to pull in FDI's worth US$473.8 bil in 2010 and US$468.2 ...

Polarisation of super dubbed "shocking" by UK manager

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2012
... appeal. Russell Hogan, director at Dundas Global said that in terms of the self-directed retiree market, annuities are "no magic bullet," although they have a place alongside other income components. Hogan referred to the UK phased system where you don't ...

Playing with a loaded dice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2012
... to no one that a renewed slump in the US housing market just adds another point to those expecting Uncle Ben to say those magic letters - Q and E. This didn't make the headlines but, there's also the brewing "food fight". Bloomberg Businessweek reports ...

More of the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2012
... road. Crisis averted... until the next crisis. This, or they finally "find a way to finally make it right" to "make the magic last for more than just one night".

BRIC slows on Europe woes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2012
... of 7.28% last night. Boyoboyoboy. Spanish yields eased to around 7.16% at the close. But hey wait, isn't this above the magic 7% which markets consider as the "request for bailout" level?. But hey wait, hasn't Spain just been promised a a,-100 bil rescue ...

Big Ben boosta

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2012
... Why we never last for very long What are we doing wrong Just once can't we find a way to finally make it right Make the magic last for more than just one night If we could just get to it I know we could break through it." It didn't take long, did it? ...

The times, they're not a -changin'

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2012
... tried and tried and tried - five plans announced to date... and counting. And they'll continue to do so until they find the magic formula containing the three C's. In the meantime, forced fiscal rectitude and higher interest rates demanded on sovereign ...

Fed policy options galore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
... bankers on the 26th - yup, that's three days from now. Many of us are expecting our big bro' to pull another rabbit out of his magic cap. Then again, maybe not. That is if you believe recent headlines such as, "Bernanke may find that his options are ...