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Chief economist update: The rate cut Australia has to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2019
... slowing/stopping/reversing the fall and fall in property prices. Not to mention the Labor Party's defeat at the May elections and its proposal to limit negative gearing and halve the capital gains discount from 50% to 25%... and ScoMo's promised ...

Dear mom, all's good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2015
... headed by incumbent PM Cameron, instead, won an outright majority - 331 of the 650 Parliamentary seats - at the 7 May elections. Good news from the "mother of all eco stats" - the US non-farm payrolls report - it was a "goldilocks" one, not too hot ...

Fundamentally challenged

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
... stuff together until they reach a "Lehman moment". The bottom line is that last night was the first time since the 6 May elections in Greece and France that financial markets reacted to real fundamentals. Suddenly, bad news is no longer good news as ...

Grexit and the games people play

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012
... political parties - those rejecting the austerity in exchange for bailouts -- that picked up huge vote at the 6 May elections (perhaps even accompanied with a one finger salute). Syriza, the coalition party of the radical left that is expected to win ...
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