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Santa's in town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 DEC 2010
"Here comes Santa Claus, Here comes Santa Claus, Right down Santa Claus Lane..." The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) played Santa to Australians all by announcing no increase in interest rates yesterday. It may have to lift the official cash rate from ...

Top 30

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2009
The list has been drawn and is out! Worry no more about Dubai. There are bigger fish to fry. The Financial Times reports that the Financial Stability Board (FSB) - the regulator advocated by US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner last June to pre-empt and ...

L-U-V

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2009
... about the economic alphabet. Our economy is doing nicely, thank you very much. Australian retailers are reportedly expecting Santa to come to town this Christmas season. And if ever that dreaded letter 'W' comes, the Reserve Bank is already making preparations ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2009
... rising commodity prices. Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway announced Tuesday it is paying $US100 a share for Burlington Northern Santa Fe in a deal valuing the railroad at $US34 billion ($A37.57 billion), lending some support to the market. But investors ...

Knife falls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2008
Anyone else caught the falling knife? Lower earnings forecasts quickly ended Wall Street's optimism over Santa Obama's promise of a 'single biggest investment' since the 1950s. Like I said in yesterday's commentary, for now this is simply rhetoric. ...

Santa Obama

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
... index' return surging pass the level above the zero line for the month. Similarly, commodity prices went flying. The reason. Santa Klaus has come to town. In his weekly radio interview last Sunday, Santa Obama promised to produce the 'single largest ...

Four Bad 'Bers'

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2008
... and cleansing process is far from over. Investors, like starry-eyed children turning into grown-ups, will discover that Santa is not real and that their stockings remain filled with toxic debts. This week the central banks of the Eurozone, the United ...

Super cushions local asset managers

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2008
The country's compulsory super will keep the investment management arms of the major banks chugging along despite the current market crisis - unlike their European and US counterparts which are under the hammer, if not already sold, as their parent ...

ANZ bank looks to India

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2007
As competition in Australian banking continues to intensify, ANZ bank is adopting new technologies in India to lead the pack, according to Mike Smith, ANZ's chief executive. Speaking at the Trans-Tasman Business Circle yesterday, Smith said in terms ...

Brumbie: The only Budget numbers that matter

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2007
It's Christmas Eve and by this time tomorrow we'll all know if Santa has given us the present we wanted, but to really make sense of the Budget you need to understand the ground rules. The Budget might look like a financial document because it has numbers ...