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The certainty in a sea of uncertainties

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2014

China's communist and it works

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
... own people, they haven't got a justice system and they want to take over this country. We're not going to let them do it." Dear Clive's ranting, in this case, is more trouble for Australia not China (depending on how seriously the Politburo takes him). ...

James knows when

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014
... the sane man is the fool". But Fed Chair Janet Yellen and the nine "voting" members of the FOMC are certainly no fools - dear James is a non-voting member. And only last week, they told us that, "In determining how long to maintain the current 0 to 1/4 ...

Steady as she goes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2014
Who said you can't teach new tricks to an old dog? So sowee, I'm not in any way calling dear Aunt Janet Yellen a dog and most certainly not old... it's just that it's the first thing that came to my fast thinning scalp when I was clicking over what ...

Budget reply speech 2014 -15: Bill Shorten

ECB to stay in May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014
... not a trend make and, April's number marks the seventh straight month that euro area inflation had been below 1.0% -- or as dear Christine of the IMF calls it "low-flation". The ECB targets 2.0% inflation. It was precisely this threat of "low-deflation" ...

Dumping dear momos

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
... evidence to those who claim the previous day's bounce was that of a deceased feline. Reports are it's about the rotation out of dear (as in expensive not the lovey-dovey one) "momo" (momentum) technology stocks into cheaper "value" stocks with consistent ...

Australian budget to blow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
... Australia's budget deficit had widened by about 1% of our GDP since the IMF last peered into our accounts last October 2013. Dear oh dear oh dear! But wait... there's more! According to the AFR, "The fund indicated the budget would need to improve by ...

Front-runners

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
In big picture terms, not much happened last week. Yes Virginia, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept policy unchanged - as expected. The European Central Bank (ECB) guided forward but also stayed on the sidelines. US non-farm payrolls added another ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2014
The Australian market looks set to open flat after international markets lost ground as investors retreated in the face of concerns about Ukraine, the Chinese economy and falling copper prices. At 0645 AEDT on Thursday, the March share price index futures ...