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Main Street versus Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2009
... where it is expressed to mean that Irish people who did well in life, did so through sheer luck - not through talent, intelligence or hard work. It must have hedged its massive purchases of toxic assets with an equivalent amount of lucky charms? Main ...

Nationalisation - that ugly word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
... systemic risk every once in a while but have not provided an all-out cure. About two weeks ago, the Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) argued that while it may be unpalatable for capitalist economies to head down this track, there might be no ...

No bad news is no news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2009
... this remains consistent - perhaps still even below - Australia's level of full employment. The Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) estimates full employment at 5.5 per cent. This is good news and reinforces our view that Australia may yet be ...

Olicc wins Shadforth

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2009
... Financial. Under the agreement, Shadforth will use Olicc's practice management solutions, including its business intelligence and commission tracking programs, across its 22-practice network. Olicc's Enterprise Comtrac engine will enable SFG's 112 financial ...

Knife falls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2008
... the economy and equities. Overnight news underlined this. The Investor's Business Daily and TechnoMetrica Market Intelligence index of US economic optimism fell to 45 in December from 50.8 in the previous month, with the economic outlook index declining ...

Faster than the speed of fright

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2008
... faster than traditional row-oriented relational databases. The appliance is built on IBM's server and uses a Business Intelligence dashboard designed by MicroStrategy. Frontline then tailored the solution for the Australian market. Dereck Daymond, managing ...

The best forecaster

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2008
... portent of the present-day US recession (although this has yet to be dated). Data available to the Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) revealed that an inversion in the US yield curve since 1971 have ALWAYS been followed by a recession. Instead ...

The other race

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2008
... horse to water but you cannot make it drink. On that other race - the US Presidential Race - the Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) wrote last week that: 'According to Bloomberg, US stocks have generally rebounded a year after the Democrats ...

Seesaw Margery Daw

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2008
... fourth quarter's score and onwards. And given October's experience, it is not looking good. The Financial Standard Intelligence Unit's (FSIU) investigation shows that the stock market reaches bottom halfway into a recession (the NBER definition). But ...

Daily funnies

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
... downtrend, equity prices remain weak and global growth is failing. At the start of October, the Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) postulated that the Fed would soon follow in the footsteps of the Bank of Japan and implement a zero interest ...