Michael Pascoe
Michael Pascoe comments on companies, markets and the economy.
Michael Pascoe
Debt: It's not how big it is, it's what you do with it
Michael Pascoe Wayne Swan's federal budget is a more dangerous beast than usual thanks to the election four months later.
China joins iron ore bears
Michael Pascoe If the latest iron ore bears are right, there are ramifications for the federal budget, as well as the viability of some smaller miners.
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Inflation lower than it looks
Michael Pascoe Not only is the latest inflation count lower than the tipsters were forecasting, it’s lower than it looks. Statistics can be like that.
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Yes, China slowing really is a good thing
Michael Pascoe The considerable industry devoted to knocking the China story and predicting Beijing’s failure has been hard at it for decades - without success.
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Our 23-millionth citizen has just won life's lottery
Michael Pascoe It will be a big night for the nation tomorrow when someone will step off a plane or a baby will be born to become the 23-millionth Australian.
Booting up
Michael Pascoe With the LVMH buy-in of Aussie icon R.M. Wiliams, does our future lie in the production of upmarket, quality items? If we can pull it off, it's a very nice place to be.
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No end to the tyranny of shop landlords
Michael Pascoe Tenants are rightly in arms as landlords make no concessions for the retail downturn.
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Economic relief via the petrol pump
Michael Pascoe While gold’s tarnished glister has been hogging most media attention, a commodity that is actually important has been diving too.
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China a poor excuse for a correction
Michael Pascoe As excuses for corrections go, China’s not-as-strong-as-expected economic growth yesterday was pretty lame.
Mining stock mayhem
Michael Pascoe Business commentator Michael Pascoe talks through the days turmoil in the market.
China sparkles more than gold
Michael Pascoe It promises to be a interesting week for gold and oil as both slumped further on Friday night. But the big news continues to be out of China.
Get dirty on the Aussie dollar
Michael Pascoe While the mighty Aussie is copping dirt from several business types a very 21st century tulip mania has taken hold of Bitcoin.
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Dishing dirt on the dollar
Michael Pascoe The cost of building whopping great big things in the north-west has become prohibitive - but the dollar is only partly to blame.
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Employment averaging out softly
Michael Pascoe The labour market is soft and it’s staying soft, which is why the “rate rise for Christmas” story is unlikely to be true.
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Coalition voters turn pessimistic
Michael Pascoe Labor had a horror month of leadership farce and superannuation policy self-harm, but it's the Coalition voters who turned negative last month
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James Packer is the voice and Echo is, well, the echo
Michael Pascoe On the surface, some competitive tension has been added to the Sydney casino game.
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O'Farrell's quite incredible failure
Michael Pascoe Some competitive tension has been added to the Sydney casino game, but that’s only on the surface.
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Cheaper petrol in the pipeline for motorists
Michael Pascoe Australian petrol prices are set to dive by more than 9¢ a litre.
Petrol
Cheaper petrol in the pipeline
Michael Pascoe Two weeks after being warned of Easter long weekend price hikes, Australian petrol prices are set to dive by more than 9 cents a litre based on the latest Singaporean refinery numbers.
Super nonsense
Michael Pascoe The government has handled policy 'badly', but the changes themselves aren't bad. The week that was with Michael Pascoe.
