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Chief economist update: Australians all let's not rejoice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020
"I'm walking on sunshine (Wow!) I'm walking on sunshine (Wow!) I'm walking on sunshine (Wow!) And don't it feel good." Sadly, Australians are not singing and dancing to this upbeat classic by Katrina and the Waves. The Westpac/Melbourne ...

Australia on top

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2016
Woe is us. Australians all, let's not rejoice! The Australian equity market's reaction to the better-than-expected - heaps better - 1.1% quarterly expansion in March quarter real GDP is beginning to plant the seed of doubt in my psyche. Doubt that perhaps ...

Down but upbeat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2016
... whipsawed by the big swings in oil prices and on Wall Street. But there's even greater reason to remain optimistic - if not rejoice - for even before we downed our tools and shut down our links to the world wide web - the National Australia Bank's (NAB) ...

Now for Australia's debt surge

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2015
Sufferin' succotash! Now we're really in trouble. Australians all, let's not rejoice for the bad news is piling up on us... one after the other. There's slowing China - GDP decelerated to 7.0% in the first quarter from 7.4% in 2014 - and is pushing ...

Nothing's good enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2014
My oh my oh my and boyoboyoboy. There's just no pleasing us, Australians all, is there? Australians all let's not rejoice. No! Don't rejoice at National Statistician's official count that the economy of this land girt by sea expanded by 1.1% in the ...

Australian budget to blow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
... almost Budget time folks. It's big news here in this land "girt by sea" this April morn'. Australians, all, let's NOT rejoice! For the IMF discovered that "Australia has posted the fastest budget deterioration over the past six months of any of the 29 ...

Woe R'Us

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2012
Australians all let's NOT rejoice. How can we when day in, day out - days in-between - we're reminded of the woeful state that the world is in and that... we'll be swimming with the fishes along with it? Woe R'Us. Look beyond the sea that girths our ...

The martyrdom of Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2012
... lifeline amounting to a,-130 billion. To use Bruce Willis' words in his 'Die Hard' films, "Yippe-ki-yay"! For how can you not rejoice? Wall Street's up, Asian equities are up and European equities are up, including a 4.7% spike in the Athex Composite ...
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