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No minute message in FOMC minutes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... be warranted." This spells QE3 to me. And this ladies and gents, confirms what we at the Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) have been saying all along, that there's no dragging the Fed away from the printing press - if conditions worsens. What ...

Season's Greetings from the Financial Standard team

... until that time, the website will remain active and readers will still have full access to the news archives and Intelligence Unit research and analysis. We thank you for your support and look forward to discussing the issues affecting the financial ...

Queuing for QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2010
... stronger and overvalued against the stronger emerging economies (mainly China and Asia). The Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) updated the index for the latest exchange rates, but the outcome is more or less the same -- the US dollar remains ...

Recession over, now for the recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
... 2007 is officially "dead, buried and cremated". And guess what? This is what our prescient Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) accurately "guessed" exactly 14 months ago. Don't believe me? Read "Jumping at shadows no more", published on this ...

Bored with half-empty glasses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2010
... of the worst that could happen. Last night's successful bond sale in Spain justifies the Financial Standard Intelligence Unit's (FSIU) view that the European crisis is not as bad as the spin doctors would have you believe. The world's been through worse ...

Knee-jerk reaction to late action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2010
... Johnnies-come-lately credit rating agencies to yell, "run!" But leave it to our team at the Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU). As it stands, the equity market's behaviour to the recent rout confirms our view that investors are still at the ...

Enviable problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2010
... jobless rate would not stop climbing until it hit double-digits. I typed 'most' because our Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) did not buy into this guesstimate, instead calculating Australia's unemployment rate to reach 5.5 per cent at worst. ...

Happy birthday bull

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
... others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful." Warren Buffett Like Warren, the Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) went against the flow of extreme fright prevailing at the time. Below is what we thought of the events of 9 March 2009 ...

Jobs full recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2010
... almost universal agreement that Australia had it in - it's doomed. Well...except perhaps the Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU). "Job losses worst for 18 years" (AFR). "Australian Jobless Rate Climbs to 4-Year High of 5.2%" (Bloomberg) were ...

Season's Greetings from the Financial Standard team

... until that time, the website will remain active and readers will still have full access to the news archives and Intelligence Unit research and analysis. We thank you for your support and look forward to discussing the issues affecting the financial ...