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Not happy enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2017
... remains below 100, indicating that pessimists still outnumber optimists... and for the 10th straight month at that. You, I and Irene don't have to hunt for the why's and wherefore's, Westpac chief economist Bill Evans explains it succinctly: "Pressures ...

Low-flation to lower-flation?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUL 2017
... also picked up - the weighted median up to 1.8% from 1.7%; but it's also flat - a trimmed mean steady at 1.8%. You, I and Irene can torture the CPI inflation data all we want but the figures show that, at best, inflation has stabilised and that based ...

InFocus restructures to support growth

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2017
... number of senior roles with the Commonwealth Bank and NAB. InFocus also introduced a new general manager of marketing in Irene Watt. Watt has previously held senior marketing and media roles with Netball Australia, Bond University, Careers Australia ...

Will 2017 be a mirror image of 2016?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 JAN 2017
... where 2016 left off - good tidings and cheers on the global economy and risk appetites. If there are lessons that you, I and Irene should learn over the year just passed, it is that the "January effect" -- the hypothesis that the stock market's performance ...

The year that was and the year that will be

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 DEC 2016
It's now a week before Christmas and two before we bid 2016 adieu! And what a year 2016 was. It scared you, I and Irene at the open. The Fed was going to raise interest rates and China's economy was heading for hard landing. These two factors alone ...

The Fed lady and the Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 DEC 2016
... day when the Fed finally gets to go ahead and push rate hike button numero dos. The second coming if you will. You, I and Irene and our uncles expect them to do so that, ironically, there'll be a price to pay if the Fed doesn't deliver. Questions would ...

Central banks still got their mojo

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2016
... dots gives us greater certainty as to where US interest rates are headed. The same way the Fed forward guided you, I and Irene into four rate hikes this year at the start of 2016... which became just two a few months later... and now one (maybe). Nobody ...

Parting could be such sweet sorrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2016
... other's necks, but as any scribe would know, it's the bad news, the scares, that get more eyeballs, reason why you, I and Irene are getting much more than a serving of Brexit scares than we care to digest. Then again, maybe not. For sure, the top honchos ...

Time to fear the no "fear gauge"?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2016
... away....and this, when over the past few days, many a Fed henchmen - voters and non-voters alike - were forward-guiding you, I and Irene and our uncles that a rate hike is coming... maybe in June, perhaps in July... and to expect not one but two or three ...

Advisers halt HNW slide

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2016
... question of the adviser's expertise which is central to building perceptions of value," Investment Trends senior analyst Irene Guiamatsia said. "The onus is on advisers to rethink their approach to service delivery. It is about engaging investors in ...