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AMP hit with another proposed class action

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2018
Maurice Blackburn has jumped on the bandwagon, seeking interest to launch a third class action against AMP. Announcing its action today, the law firm is attempting to attract as many AMP shareholders as possible by way of a "market disrupting" commission ...

Chief economist update: Fed's on target, BOJ takes out target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2018
... was missing the phrase "the Committee is monitoring inflation developments closely" that was there in March. I could only guess this is because the US economy is evolving in line with the Fed's expectations. Ergo, the three interest rate hikes this year ...

Chief economist update: The colour of Beige

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2018
... Speculators speculating the Fed will keep the fed funds rate unchanged at its 1-2 May meeting would take comfort that their guess is correct for apart from the fact that the US central bank lifted the fed funds rate by 25 bps to 1.75% just last month. ...

Chief economist update: RBA certain to raise interest rates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2018
... learned from John Maynard Keynes what long-term is: "in the long-run we're all dead" but how long or short is "near-term"? My guess is that the "near-term" would be as long or as short a time it takes for wages growth to significantly pick up and lifts ...

Pre-retirees lack confidence about retirement: Qantas Super

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2018
... scoring 5.6 while women came in at 4.7. "It's hard to say why women are overrepresented in the lower confidence groups but my guess is it's because women are paid less than men for the same jobs and they tend to have lower average super balances," Qantas ...

Cultural bias heavily discounts female artwork

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 30 JAN 2018
... these reasons behind the price difference, the researchers conducted two experiments: The first canvassed 1000 people to guess the artist's gender for 10 pieces, half of which were painted by women, then rate how much they liked the paintings on a scale ...

Jobs galore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2017
... translates into a pick-up in wages growth - recorded at a record low 1.9% in the June quarter. It may well do but my best guess is that employed workers will use the "pay rise" to rebuild their dwindling savings - household savings ratio dropped to a ...

Beige Book report delivers known knowns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2017
... uber-transparency towards in policy thoughts in recent times, eliminating the need for markets, speculators and investors to second-guess the Fed. No more Fedspeak - the term famously described in former Fed chief Alan Greenspan's quote, "I know you ...

Go ahead BOE, make my day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2017
Four days and one month before this day, the British pound staged a sterling rally - it soared to pre-Brexit levels against the US dollar and the Japanese yen (and to a two-month high against the strengthening euro). That was on 14 September when the ...

Inflated attention on September US CPI inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 OCT 2017
... some categories of prices, especially a large decline in quality-adjusted prices for wireless telephone services. "My best guess is that these soft readings will not persist, and with the ongoing strengthening of labor markets, I expect inflation to ...