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Punishing Putin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2014
... day! Did Russian President Vladimir Putin just give the G7 a two-handed one finger salute? This is if latest reports are true that Russia has given Ukraine's military forces in Crimea to surrender or face an all out assault, For this comes after the ...

When saving goes bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
... and JMK's paradox became popular among us students of the dismal science back in the late 1940s but it's ringing ever so true today... in Australia 2014. The Qantas crash of 2014 led me to mull over this paradox. QAN dropped by 9% yesterday after reporting ...

Action!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2014
... credit, with a view to encouraging banks' lending and strengthening the foundation for economic growth". But whatever the true rationale, the BOJ's announcement appearsA to have short-circuited the developing negative sentiment on Japan's outlook - at ...

It must have been love

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2014
... imports increased my more than expected.A Never mind that there were dozens upon dozens of blogs dedicated to how it wasn't true love - "the figures may be inflated by fake trade transactions, where traders forge deals to sneak cash into the country ...

Blame it on the boogie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014
... Look ma, they have! According to Joey, the bad job stats were the ""unfortunate reality of six years of Labor government". True - unemployment is, after all, a lagging indicator - but c'mon Joey, you must have been in Opposition so long that you can't ...

You say threshold, I say trigger

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
... rate at 1.5% and core at 1.7% -- it's a non-factor.A But the "6-1/2 percent" unemployment rate threshold is. If the Fed is true to its word, we're one downtick away from that 6.5% jobless rate where the Fed thinks the "current exceptionally low target ...

Latest Financial Standard issue available on the iPad app

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2014
... of cash and term deposits, asking why so many of investors, particularly those with self-managed super funds, are staying true to this asset class despite record low interest rates. Sticking to the topic of SMSFs, our front page story looks at the opportunities ...

It's good, it's bad, it's faked

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2014

SMSFs eye offshore assets

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2013
... thinking about allocating offshore. One possible explanation is confusion from investors on where they should go to achieve true diversification benefits from international investing." When asked about barriers to investing overseas, 21% said 'insufficient ...

China's still going but will it go slow-er?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2013