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A matter of assumptions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2017
... The question is what would the RBA do next year? We're still guessing... and so are the "experts''. The ANZ and the NAB guess that the Australian central bank would lift the official cash rate by 25 basis points twice by the end of 2018, taking the current ...

Transparency to the max

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 SEP 2017
Oh drat! There were few events last week to provide a nice entry point to equity markets, ones that could instil caution, if not fear, enough for some to trim their holdings and cheapen share prices. But alas! Most share markets closed stronger. These ...

Business conditions return to pre-GFC levels

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUL 2017
... labour costs - businesses' biggest expenditure - "remains subdued". Though as NAB reports, it "has been trending higher". I guess there's no way but up with the ABS' measure of wages growing at a record low 1.9% in the March quarter. But upbeat trading/sales ...

Australian economy proceeding according to projections

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... achieve that nirvana of a surplus in the government coffers. But a forecast is a forecast is a forecast. It's an educated guess that could turn out accurate, an over-estimation or under-estimation. Not to worry, Australian economic and survey data released ...

Trump matters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2017
Guess it isn't over till it's over folks! Trump and what he'll do next continue to dominate the headlines and Twitter-verse. So much so that only few gave a hoo-ha to central bank monetary policy announcements - the BOJ, the Fed, and the BOE met in ...

Trump's tweets and deeds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2017
... vetting) refugee deal with the US of A which Trump characterised as a "dumb deal". What POTUS will do next is anybody's guess. But the fact that he has followed through with his campaign promises from day one suggests that all the things Trump said he ...

Still unsure about POTUS 45

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 JAN 2017
They've tried to take away his thumbs from twitter when he was Donald Trump @realDonaldTrump. Still, he prevailed and from 20 January 2017, Donald Trump - the 45th president of the United States - became known in twitterland as President Trump or @POTUS. ...

A mining renaissance courtesy of President Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2016
I guess it's safe to say that Trump has got all - or nearly most of us - stumped, including Trump. "Donald Trump never actually wanted to be President of the United States", according to documentary filmmaker and author Michael Moore. In hindsight ...

Keep super ship steady in rocky markets: CIO

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2016
Kinetic Super chief investment officer Paul Kessell is encouraging superannuation investors not to act rashly in the wake of jittery share markets. Following a loss of more than 2% during Monday's trading on the ASX, investors may question whether share ...

Combination of fiscal and monetary policy essential for Japan

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2016
... reform is viable. "I think the way it would work is that it wouldn't just be, 'well we're going to announce ¥28 trillion and guess what the BOJ is going to announce helicopter money.' No it's not going to go like that. "It will go more like this I think ...