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Sliding oil price would stop the slide in the oil price

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
... members' reaction: "The conflicting interests inside OPEC arise from the differences in its members' oil industries and economies. Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait and other Gulf producers can extract oil cheaply. They also -- Iraq excepted -- have a lot of ...

ACFS appoints execs from ANZ and EY

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2014
... invaluable to a growing ACFS. The combination of her academic publications and first-hand experience dealing with Asian economies will provide an important perspective as the region's financial markets grow in importance," ACFS executive director, Professor ...

Big yawn on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2014
... touch the sky. Economic growth of 3.9% would be a considered a crash for China and a disappointment for many emerging economies, but for a big mature developed economy like the US, it's gangbusters. More so, if you look at the details of the GDP report. ...

Financial services Australia's largest industry

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2014
... done by the FSC to develop the Asia Region Funds Passport to facilitate mutual recognition between Australia and other economies." The pilot program is expected to be up-and-running by 2016.

G20, FTA and Vlad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2014
... first? I digress. Back to the G20 promises, promises. In their communiquA(C), the G20 promised measures to boost their economies by an extra 2.1% by 2018. Now where have I heard that before? Oh yeah, 'twas in Washington in their communiquA(C) dated 11 ...

Bond experts reiterate need for flexible duration strategy

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2014
... interest rates in the short term is unlikely. The overhang of sovereign debt in the financial system - which helped prop up economies after the financial crisis - is too large relative to GDP to be sustained unless interest rates remain low or growth ...

100% steady on the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2014
... cash rate steady at 2.5%. The big picture shows that nothing much has really changed in the international and domestic economies since its 7 October meeting to prompt the Australian central bank to change policy settings. The US economy continues to ...

China's mean regression

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2014
... Taiwan and Singapore. I did my own, dig, dig, dig for data and found that... Lant & Larry could be onto something. The economies of Hongkong, South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore were all growing at between 10% to 15% back then. By 2013, Hongkong's economy ...

Global deflation - the next worry?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2014
... would be the next one on our list of worries? Certainly looks like it with excess capacity running in many developed economies... and combined with still weak demand. Have no fear, the central banks are here. They are printing and reflating. But... but ...

Chocolate biscuits and animal spirits

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
... falling. We could only imagine now what would have happened to equity markets and in turn to sentiment and then the economies if the "new masters of the universe" hadn't done what they did. All is well now... errr, perhaps but we're not done with October ...