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Indian optimism

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014
... television some years back. A click on its website shows that this slogan has now been replaced with "laughter is the best medicine". Funny that. Funny that this optimism slogan is being applied some 10,000 kilometres away in the land where, according ...

Budget reply speech 2014 -15: Bill Shorten

Cognitive function, consumption biggest SMSF risks

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013
... Sciences by Dr Agnieszka Tymula of the University of Sydney and colleagues at New York University and Yale's School of Medicine that found people aged over 65 are more likely to make poor financial decisions even if they have high IQs and numeracy skills. ...

China trip provides first-hand insights

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... consumer goods and pharmaceuticals, after the government confirmed that it would continue with a scheme that subsidises medicine, similar to Australia's, said Wu. Stocks in consumer companies with a "proven track record" offer attractive opportunities ...

Uncertainty here we come (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 NOV 2011
... to ensure the implementation of this deal.'" Maybe so... but what do you do when the patient refuse to take his bitter medicine? It would have been so easy to just let Greece die and amputate it from the rest of the Eurozone. But it's not. The weakest ...

AllianceBernstein bullish on molecular medicine

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2011
AllianceBernstein predicts molecular medicine will rival the emergence of digital information as a disruptive force and has allocated 10% of its thematic portfolios to associated companies such as DNA sequencing and molecular diagnostics firms. While ...

A QEasy road ahead for investors

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2010
... that the "overall outlook is for modest growth with heightened volatility." He said that austerity would be the best medicine for the US, because it "on current projections the US will be facing its own sovereign crisis, even though it is many, many ...

Chireland hurdled

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
... waters of the Atlantic, Ireland may have been dragged to the begging table screaming and shouting, but forced to take its medicine it was. Admitting there's a problem is the first step to a cure. In an interview with RTE - Ireland's state television ...

Fed & RBA on the ball

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
... zone we will not survive with the European Union." Hear that? The EU would be no more if Ireland continues to refuse its medicine. For now Ireland continues to sit tight. The government is adamant that its finances are good until mid-2011 - "hopefully" ...

QE2 overstays welcome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 NOV 2010
... Professionals, Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher said, "I asked that the FOMC consider that we might be prescribing the wrong medicine for the ailment from which our economy is suffering. The remedy for what ails the economy is, in my view, in the ...