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Treats not threats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2012
... closing in to seal your doom." Yup, the foul stench of weak US corporate earnings, Greece and Spain in Europe, Europe's recession and anticipation of a hard landing in China which is dragging the rest of Asia (and Australia). But a haunting wouldn't ...

Woe R'Us

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2012
... greetings while mowing my nature strip last weekend. I was outnumbered. All three are convinced that Australia is in recession. The exact same indication delivered by the latest Westpac - Melbourne Institute Index of Consumer Sentiment. While the index ...

IMF - It Means Fun

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
... "alarmingly high" risk of -- depending on which media you follow - deep global slump, deeper world slowdown, global recession... But whatever adjective and noun you read or heard, the IMF's message is clear: "be afraid, be very afraid" when it released ...

Time to buy the bad news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2012
... now expects to grow by only 7.7% (from 8.2% previously) in 2012 and 8.1% (from 8.6%) next year - and of course, the recession and debt crisis in Europe and slow growth in America. The World Bank's chopping spree follows the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
... showed that the nation's jobless queue grew by nearly half a million people in the year to September. Spain has been in recession since late 2011, its second downturn since the bursting of a property bubble in 2008 that destroyed millions of jobs and ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
... London's FTSE 100 index of top companies rose 0.20 per cent to 5,779.42 points after official data showed Britain's recession-hit economy shrank less than initially thought in the second quarter. Frankfurt's Dax 30 climbed 0.19 per cent to 7,290.02 points ...

Time to stop the rot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2012
Looks like some partygoers have gotten lost on their way to the party - Big Ben's party, that is. Less than 24 hours after Bloomberg Businessweek published this headline, "Fed Stuck at Zero Into 2015, QE Odds Reach 99%" yesterday, screens displaying ...

Australia: all good and wishing for the worst

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2012
... growth of 0.6% in the June quarter and 3.7% over the year marked exactly 21 years since Australia last experienced a recession. Yes folks, a year and 20! America has had 2 since then - Q1 to Q3 2001 and Q4 2007 to Q1 2009. But what's this? I can't hear ...

Put up or shut up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012
... displeasure. I've been watching the markets for decades - been caught up in the 1987 Crash, bought bargains during the 1990/91 recession, made some dough in the 1997/98 Asian financial crisis, stayed the course during 9/11, bought bargains during the ...

Variant Perceptions' variant perception

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012
... headline, "Australia's capex cliff," putting it out there that "... the developed world's fastest growing... will fall in to recession next year as the China-driven mining investment boom ends." Followed by: Is Australia... in the same boat as Europe?" ...