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Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
... Scotland - voted with regards to their divorce with Britain. And then there are the side issues about the war with ISIS and Putin and indications of more slowdown in China and the PBOC's latest counter-response and speculation of European Central Bank ...

Calendrically weak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2014
... 15 companies, including energy companies Gazprom Neft and OAO Rosneft, to its list of sanctioned businesses as well as 24 Putin "friends". The US expanded its sanction list too. But we're all aware of this. The 'West' and Russia will continue playing ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2014
... new sanctions on Russian banking and energy companies, a plan that was immediately attacked by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Solid reports on Friday on US retail sales and consumer confidence "are likely fuelling interest rate hike uncertainty ahead ...

Carried away by the dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2014

The certainty in a sea of uncertainties

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2014

Recycling the same old, same old

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
... just distracted by the feel-good speeches at Jackson Hole and S&P 500's climb to the 2,000 milestone - and if you believe Putin's gone an inch away from the Ukrainian border. To quote former US President George W Bush again, "... fool me once, shame ...

Janet's Jackson

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014
"Ain't no value high enough, ain't no Putin tough enough, ain't no ISIS mad enough" to keep investors away from Wall Street and... Yes I know it's a double negative (but that's how the song goes and you know what it means) but more importantly, you ...

Goldilocks is back in town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014
... and into Gaza, financial markets are back into watching the economic backdrop. And they like what they see. To be sure, Putin might be taking advantage of this lull to ponder his next move - recall the lull between Crimea's secession crisis in late Feb/early ...

China's communist and it works

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
... through its worst slump on record..." "Home prices fell in 64 of the 70 surveyed cities in July from a month earlier..." Putin's nothing compared to this scare. Collapsing property prices threatens PM Li's 7.5% growth target and that's scary. That's ...

Fear me not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
... even at the 17.03 read reached on the 1st of August when the markets faced the sum of all its fears - Argentina default, Putin, Israel, Iraq, slow growth in China, faster growth in the US that could prompt earlier rate hike by the Fed - that instigated ...