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Good jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2011
The sun is shining, the sky is blue and everything is fine except... it's not fine enough. Wall Street was so sure heading into the February US non-farm payrolls report that the data will confirm improving labour market conditions in America. All the ...

Countdown to FICAP fundraising

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2011
... rely on public support to keep their doors open. Open Family Australia, an outreach organisation working with the youth and Bear Cottage, a hospice providing respite and palliative care to children and young people with life limiting illnesses and their ...

Sentiment slips on oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... Goodbye global economic recovery! Goodbye bull run! Welcome back pain! In economic parlance we call this stagflation (baby bear PIMCO's El-Arian may be right after all). This is another case of extrapolating to high heavens - like Dow 30,000 or gold ...

Bad news bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2011
... highest level in nine months. Oh no! We're in trouble now - big trouble. Just ask PIMCO's chief executive officer and perma bear Mohamed El-Erian. Bloomberg reports that, "There will be "higher inflation and lower growth because of higher oil prices ...

1989 redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 FEB 2011
... the inflow of strengthening economic data over the past few months, I'm far from capitulating. But developments in the Gulf bear watching... and very closely. Buy on dips? Or sell on hops?

Roubini defects

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 FEB 2011
"If you can't beat 'em, join 'em!" At least this is way better than the "if you can't stop 'em, beat and shoot 'em" tactic employed by the governments of Bahrain and Libya on their protesting people. Wall Street activity overnight was just like a repeat ...

Bunga bunga

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2011
"There's a kind of hush (rush) all over the world tonight... So listen very carefully, closer now and you will see what I mean. It isn't a dream..." --Carpenters Just like Italy's Emperor (Silvio Berlusconi) was allegedly photographed with showgirls ...

Cycling up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 FEB 2011
It's good in so far as it's bad. For those like me who logged on over the weekend hoping to glean clarity on America's future, the latest non-farm payrolls report outing provided none. Yes, Virginia, both the bulls and the bears would be claiming, "I ...

Fin services execs rock 'n' roll for charity

... funds for charities that don't receive government support. Last year FICAP donated nearly $80,000 to its principal charity, Bear Cottage, a hospice providing respite and palliative care to children and young people with life limiting illnesses and their ...

PC recommends govt-backed aged care equity release

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 FEB 2011
... report, released last month, said more creative funding measures are required because the average $250,000 aged care bond can bear little resemblance to the actual cost of the care. The PC said ways to address this are mechanisms such as compulsory aged ...