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Smaller QE2 is not all that bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
... form any other source, I would quickly dismiss it as plain rumour mongering. But no! It was the venerable Wall Street Journal that broke the news. "The central bank is likely to unveil a program of U.S. Treasury bond purchases worth a few hundred billion ...

Pigs are bacon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2010
... overestimated." In case you think that this is idle second hand bedroom chitchat, here's a print from the Wall Street Journal, "Geither told the Wall Street Journal that major currencies "are roughly in alignment now," a signal that the U.S. does not ...

Challenge your consultants on ESG

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2010
... money, they're working for you - it shouldn't be the other way around," he said. He quotes the example of a Wall Street Journal league table that tracked the performance of international investment banks in 2008 - and how the analysts' stock picks performed ...

True Lies

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
... even the "ice cube trays out of the freezer." There's plenty of bad news to choose from. Take your pick: The Wall Street Journal printed a lotta cheatin' going on at the EU stress test. The WSJ disclosed that "Europe's recent "stress tests" of the strength ...

Fearing September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2010
... stock market and found that since 1929,the S&P declined by 1.3 per cent on average in Septembers. Also, the Wall Street Journal cites finance professor Kenneth French at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business study showing that since 1926, September is ...

Fictional fact

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2010
... closed only 0.2 per cent up. Not exactly the plus one per cent gains of the day before are they? At least The Wall Street Journal was more truthful with its headline, "Dow, Up 0.1%, Clings to Retailer-Driven Rally." Whoops, maybe I typed too soon - is ...

Numero Dos

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 AUG 2010
... trillion economy, no one can deny that it had made great strides over the past ten years. According to the Wall Street Journal, China was ranked seventh biggest a little over a decade ago. It surpassed Germany as numero tres only in 2007. And with Spot ...

Not a jobless double-dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2010
... administrative assistant in Virginia since she lost her job at a publishing company in May 2009." And this from The Wall Street Journal, "US Stocks Skid As Jobs Data Fan Economic Worries" where it quoted Canaccord Adams' managing director of equity trading ...

To spend or not to spend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2010
... thumb at the weekend's G-20 Summit in Toronto... not anymore. To spend... or not to spend. According to the Wall Street Journal, the debate would centre on: "What is the biggest threat to growth, diminished demand or escalating debt?" America proposes ...

Death by algorithm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
... erroneous trades transacted last night. Here's a sample from the list of companies that hit zero compiled by the Wall Street Journal : Accenture - opened at US$41.94, hit zero at around 2:50 and then closed at US$41.09. Exelon - opened at US$43.35, hit ...