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A surplus in 2012/13, and then what?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2012
... the Year" for nothing. Blame lower company tax receipts, he'll tell you. "Collections, particularly relating to company profits, have been lower than expected." Company profits have been lower than expected because growth has slowed. And what's he going ...

The martyrdom of Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2012
... contagion had been kicked further down the road. Equity markets ex Greece are safe, for now. But not Greece. Will company profits in Greece now soar because the EU/IMF/ECB's still to be disbursed a,-130 bil is gonna improve economic and business conditions ...

Wolf, wolf

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2012
... ride through a ''GFC Mark II''. ''If we get a re-run of last time, you get higher unemployment, sharp hits to company profits and a slowdown in the Australian economy without a technical recession, largely due to the momentum in the big mining construction ...

Aust Ethical community grants announced

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 OCT 2011
... program. Phil Vernon Australian Ethical's managing director said, "Every year, Australian Ethical donates 10% of company profits through our community grants scheme. This is one of the highest levels of corporate giving in Australia relative to our size ...

GDP down no reason to frown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2011
... paragraph tried to convince me that, "it's bad, it's bad, you know it". It talked about the 2 per cent fall in gross company profits in the March quarter, "led down by a 6.6 per cent collapse in mining profits." It cited sluggish new home sales and that ...

Silver bullet downs market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011
... commodities no more! Sell gold, sell oil, sell copper, sell cocoa, sell coffee, sell soybeans, sell... sell... sell. Company profits will sink, sell... sell... sell. Rumours begin to circulate. Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim is rumoured to be selling ...

May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
... remaining above 60 for the fourth straight month in April. Nothing's really changed with regards to first quarter US company profits. Sure there have been some disappointments, but majority of those that have already reported continue to beat estimates. ...

Been there, done that

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... the equity markets are concerned, they are already known unknowns. Now it's time to check and see how resilient company profits have been to these uncertainties. Bloomberg reports that analysts expect company profits to rise by 12 per cent in the first ...

Hitting a BRIC wall

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... commodities would, by extension, slow consumer spending, limit economic activity, weaken business sales and lower company profits. By how much the BRICs and other emerging economies slow remains a big question mark. But financial markets seemed to have ...

Bunga bunga

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2011
... tril. This means those gains in consumer spending we saw in the previous months will continue. This means American company profits would continue to grow. This means the virtuous circle is cranking up and spinning. And it's not only in America. European ...