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The Ides of March

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
... of more government bail-outs and this time, in the US, accompanied by US President Obama's pledge to correct the budget deficit to soothe investors worried about an exit plan. By all indications, the worst of the worst have all been priced in by investors. ...

GFC in a fortnight

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2009
... seems -- over the problem. Investors worry over how the bucket load of money will be spent and how the ballooning budget deficit will ultimately be repaid. Here, the exit strategy presented by US President Barack Obama is worth watching as it would serve ...

Riccardian equivalence redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2009
... overall demand would be the same. David Riccardo argued back in the 1820's that given increased government spending (read deficit), rationale consumers would merely save the extra money to compensate for what they expect to be increased taxes in the ...

Residential property wins

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
... demand-supply imbalance in the market, will also benefit existing investors," said Hughes. Hughes highlighted that the deficit of housing supply relative to demand has rapidly increased since 2006. "A shortfall of nearly one year's demand currently exists ...

Damned if you do

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2009
... bang for the buck' or 'not large enough' or 'too large' or 'mortgaging Australia's future by putting the Budget back into deficit or 'why roof insulation' - take your pick. Such is the Rudd-Swayne tandem's predicament that the former dynamic duo - Howard ...

Bigger fish to fry

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2009
... property sector. There are plans to dole out more government largesse. Never mind if the Budget goes from a surplus to a deficit. This is precisely what the surplus is intended for anyway - to provide a stabilizing mechanism in times of trouble. And ...

Shariah-compliant hedge funds hit the spot

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2009
... believe plans by some emirates in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region to boost budget expenditure and run a budget deficit to better manage a scenario of global market recession may act as a catalyst for insulating, to some extent, stock markets ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
... expected to open lower after shares in the US slumped on a big rise in unemployment claims and a surprising jump in the trade deficit. Resource stocks may gain after commodity prices advanced. At 0830 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December ...

Pensions deficit hits US firms

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
... management strategy and revise profit expectations after pension plans losses turn a $90 billion surplus into a $420 billion deficit, according to Mercer. According to Mercer's research, the S&P 1500 defined benefit pension plans lost over $200 billion ...

Calls to cut super contribs fails to get traction

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
Simplistically rejecting the idea of temporarily cutting super contributions misses the big opportunity - putting superannuation into the economic frontline and making it part of our monetary policy heavy artillery. A group of economists lead by Nick ...