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Australia's confidence recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2014
... measure)" to the seasonally adjusted "Real Gross Domestic Income, chain volume measure" in order to support the nagging pessimism prevailing in this land girth by sea. Because it's the "Real Gross Domestic Income, chain volume measure" that shows that ...

The recession we're wishing to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014
... economy is so headed for cactusland that the odds for an RBA rate cut - by as much as 50 bps -- has grown. If the on-going pessimism continues to go on, Australians might just have the recession we're wishing we have.

Bullish sentiment at 4-year high, expect zero return in six months

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014
... not surprising given that unusually high levels of bullish sentiment and unusually low levels of bearish sentiment (pessimism more than one standard deviation below its historical average for the second consecutive week) have tended to be followed by ...

Janet's Jackson

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014
... weeks." "Bearish sentiment, expectations that stock prices will fall over the next six months, fell 3.3 points to 23.7%. Pessimism is now at a seven-week low. Bearish sentiment is also below its historical average of 30.5% for the 38th time in the past ...

Australian investors 'conservative and pessimistic': Legg Mason

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
... investments, compared with 79% globally. This conservatism and distrust of global markets was matched by a pronounced pessimism. Just 45% of Australian respondents considered there progress towards providing for retirement was going very or extremely ...

First quarter stasis and A$ ADHD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2014
... budged since mid-Feb. All these despite the number of happenings that happened over the past three months: There was pessimism. China concerns and polar vortex distortion of US data (and what it meant for Fed taper) at the start of January and the sell-off ...

Up, up, prices are up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2014
... the Australian dollar's depreciation. But non-tradeables jumping as much as they did? This isn't consistent with the pessimism that's currently doing the rounds in the Australian labour market. This is not consistent with the rise in the unemployment ...

Rational exuberance?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013
... Just how bullish is the market? According to the American Association of Individual Investors' (AAII) latest survey "Pessimism plunged to a 21-month low and optimism rose to a 10-month high..." in the week ending 23 October. And we might just get some ...

Fund CEOs slam MySuper as 'death by a thousand cuts'

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2013
... predominantly from the industry fund sector, were interviewed for the survey and almost all were unanimous in their pessimism about the outcome of the changes. "Why are we bothering?" asked one industry fund respondent. "Engaged members will still be ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
... have mostly risen after a multibillion-euro loan deal for Greece, but Shanghai closed near a four-year low over growing pessimism about the state of the world's second biggest economy. Tokyo closed up 0.37 per cent, or 34.36 points, at 9,423.30, Seoul ...