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We're still in Kansas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2009
... payrolls report, "we must be over the rainbow!" (Dorothy Gale in the Wizard of Oz). The sun shone, the sky blued and everything became beautiful when reports that the US unemployment rate dropped to 10.0 per cent in November - not the 'it would remain ...

Dummy spit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2009
... current Treasury Secretary, some may think Washington does reward failure, but that should not be the case. I will do everything I can to stop your nomination and drag out the process as long as possible. We must put an end to your and the Fed's failures ...

Posh playground turns sandpit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2009
... country that brought us the tallest building in the world, palm island, indoor snow skiing, the largest hotels, biggest everything, etc. is now sinking under the weight of borrowed money. The playground of the rich and the famous risks becoming just ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2009
... last night and a few commodities doing quite well," he said. "A lot of the commodity stocks were reasonably strong but everything seems to have run out of momentum in the last half an hour. "The liquidity of the market is not that great at the moment ...

Thanks for now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2009
... campaign." Thank you. Yes Virginia, you and I should give thanks for all these. Our retirement nest egg is growing again. Everything is falling in their rightful place - at least for now. Risk assets would continue to benefit while economies continue ...

CalPERS champions placement agent reform

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2009
... placement agents to ensure full transparency and accountability," said Feckner. "I personally believe that we must do everything in our power to make sure that our investment processes and decisions are above reproach and meet the high standards we set ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2009
... contract gained 47 points to 4866, on a volume of 9481 contracts. EL&C Baillieu Stockbroking director Richard Morrow said everything that went down Thursday was up on Friday and supermarket chain rivalry had stirred up investors. "The market is being ...

Arise Chindonesia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2009
... CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets. "Together, China and India are increasingly becoming the biggest marketplace for almost everything sold on the planet," said Cashmore. He explained that Indonesia as the world's second largest coal exporter will drive their ...

On A$ parity and dashed whispers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2009
Here we go, here we go, here we go. If everything continues to go the way it's going, the Australian dollar could very soon be trading one for one against the big one. My Bloomberg screen currently has the A$ fetching US$0.9208 -- it went as high as ...

Thin line between values and money

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2009
... cent. You need to account for that." Musgrave said financial goals change but core values don't. "In a world where everything changes, what doesn't change? Their values, beliefs and philosophies." "So if you want to maintain a relationship with them ...