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BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2008
... Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac had only delayed the eventual cleansing of the financial system. The Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) has warned may times in the past about the dangers of what the market calls 'moral hazard' - when the government steps ...

Whac-a-mole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2008
... Luncheon in Sydney. Last week's better-than-expected Australian labour force report confirms the Financial Standard Intelligence Unit's (FSIU) view that although the domestic economy has downshifted, it is far from falling into a recession. However ...

Is offshore investment necessary?

... two bourses and that the relationship has grown stronger over the past 12 months. While the Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) study supports the US and Australia stockmarket linkage, it also found that correlations vary over time. For example ...

New tech counters terrorist attacks

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2008
... (AUSTRAC), Australia's anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing regulator and specialist financial intelligence unit. "For the last several years, regulation has required only international payments to be filtered against sanctioned entities. ...

Australia IT needs more R&D

... other OECD countries on investment in research and development (R&D), according to a new study by the Economist Intelligence Unit. Sponsored by the Business Software Alliance (BSA), the study called "The means to compete: Benchmarking IT industry competitiveness" ...

Economic round-up: BRICs get richer

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2007
... market capitalisation built on the stable performances of the previous year. However, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit, a slowdown is expected in real GDP global growth, down from 5.4 per cent in 2006 to a forecast 4.8 per cent in 2007 and ...

Rate hike catches economists unaware

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAY 2006
... cent, a move economists say caught many unawares. Benjamin Ong, chief economist with the Financial Standard Intelligence Unit, said the Australian economy did not need a rate hike right now, but acknowledged it may take pressure off larger rises further ...

Daily economic update

... exactly what the RBA thinks of this when it deliberates on monetary policy next week. The Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) expects no change in interest rates. Ben Ong

Weekly economic round-up

... prices to push up global inflation and therefore, put upward pressure on interest rates, the Financial Standard Intelligence Unit believes that it there is stronger probability for economic growth to be hit. Higher energy prices represent a tax on both ...

Daily economic update

... prices to push up global inflation and therefore, put upward pressure on interest rates, the Financial Standard Intelligence Unit believes that there is stronger probability for economic growth to be hit. Higher energy prices represent a tax on both ...