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Rainmaker Excellence Awards 2013

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2013
Finalists of this year's awards and their supporters packed the Grand Ballroom of Shangri-La Hotel in Sydney to celebrate last year's most innovative and successful website and marketing campaigns. This year's awards focussed on the theme of success ...

A lesson against austerity

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013
... highest in the globe) and its debt as a percent of GDP (around 220% of GDP in 2012) the biggest? No siree! Sure, there might be hell to pay in the long run. But a stronger economy makes it that much easier to repay the piper. Sure, Japan might have to ...

Ben's your uncle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2013
Fed promise soothes Cyprus worries. These five words sum up the financial markets' performance while we slept. Good thing the US Federal Reserve's monthly FOMC meeting came when it did -- right in the midst of another bout of European contagion speculation. ...

So stupid it could actually make money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2013
... with all them Russian money. Were it not for today's banking holiday - extended to three days - there'll certainly be one hell of a run on banks (or is it away from banks). The problem is what happens in Cyprus does not stay in Cyprus. As Paul Krugman ...

Ripples from a pebble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2013
Is this the tiny pebble that trips the bull? I planned to discuss how being in cash is an even riskier proposition at this precise moment in time because of its negative inflation-adjusted returns and using as lead "The Daily Telegraph's" story about ...

Any reason will do

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013
Just give me a reason, any reason. There were big central bank meetings overnight -- the European Central Bank and the Bank of England debated their respective monetary policy settings - but nothing changed. It was same old, same old. So you could imagine ...

Ten-year future vs. 10-minute tick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2012
... react each time it flares up - of which, the default reaction is contagion and eventual break-up of the eurozone and then hell breaks loose. But we had previous 'scary' episodes before in financial and economic history - notably the GFC and the Great ...

Good not great but getting better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
Are they back? Yes them, all those who sold in May and went away? This was my first thought after I clicked through the closing numbers on Wall Street and Europe this morning. For what I saw was good - their respective equity indices jump by over 1.0% ...

Too much ado over MYEFO

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2012
... and more drastic cuts to welfare and government spending and more drastic, gulp, tax increases to get that "surplus" come hell or high water. So what's the point? The point is that you can dissect, defend or deride the MYEFO until the cows come home ...

More jobs, more jobless

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012
... what you're reading. If you opened or clicked on 'The Australian' after the report's release, you'll probably be shouting, "hell yeah, the RBA should cut interest rates, cut them now". Here's 'The Australian's' opening paragraphs: "THE worst unemployment ...