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Forecasting foibles

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2009
... of the world would fall by 3 per cent this year. Developed nations' economic growth to contract by 3 per cent...that's nothing! The OECD's crystal ball says that growth in the world's rich economies would plummet by 4.3 per cent this year. This is more ...

The power of optimism

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2009
... downgrade is an upgrade. There is still plenty of bad news around. But the power of optimism reigned supreme last week. Nothing has changed dramatically from one week to the next. The reason why the G-20 held a summit over the weekend. The reason why ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2009
... acquisitions thrown up by the global financial crisis. But it said there were no immediate plans for acquisitions. "There's nothing new there. We thought they would talk about their credit default swap exposures and they haven't done that, so I would ...

Spring springs on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2009
... measures. What could have been would be soup for breakfast, lunch and dinner or worse, soup for breakfast, air for lunch and nothing for dinner. Investors will behave depending on which colour lens it views the market from and last night it was through ...

Fanning the flames of fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2009
There is a saying that goes, 'if you have nothing good to say, just shut up' or something along those lines. These days it seems that after more than a year and a half of the global financial crisis, trillions in bail-out money, record low interest ...

S&P withdraws Lazard ratings

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2009
... to the tendency of retail investors to include funds onto their "Approved Product List" subject to ratings. "There is nothing sinister or nothing indicative of our relationship with them...we continue to hold S&P with high regard," he said. Most of Lazard's ...

Thank you RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2009
... on its hands on the very day that the global equity markets suffered another anxiety attack. Yes Virginia, the RBA did nothing. That is nothing on interest rates but it surely did something more important - it shored up market confidence. Australian ...

Moral hazard on Main Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
... it seems, has gone all the way to the top. But perhaps the financial markets have got it wrong, perhaps there is really nothing to criticise in Obama's policies, perhaps this new acronym would short circuit the negative feedback loop of badly battered ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2009
... said the domestic financial sector had been spooked by talks of bank nationalisation in the United Kingdom. "It's doing nothing for confidence," he said. At 1205 AEDT, National Australia Bank had lost 58 cents, or 3.2 per cent, to $17.53, Commonwealth ...

Obama: he's the man

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
... nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task. This is the price ...