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Let 'em rip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2013

Data diarrhoea

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2013

The recession we are promised to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2013

China's rebalancing act

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2013
... liquidity, swiftly adjust the structure of assets." The PBOC is doing the right thing. What's wrong with that? Please sir, pray tell, what the fudge is wrong with that? It's correct in telling people to "get real" - that is, to send liquidity flowing ...

Still in Goldilocks land

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2013
... exactly would the Fed taper/unwind/scale back/reduce policy stimulus. On Wednesday, all will be revealed. I hope, wish and pray that, this time, uncle Ben ditch the Fedspeak so as not to leave anything to the vivid imaginations of bloggerattis and financial ...

Treasuries - safe but not so rewarding

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2013
This was to be the year of the Great Rotation. The period when the bond market waves the white flag and give up the fight for investor dollars to the market for equities. That's until Cyprus. It has to come up with a,-5.8 billion (by taxing bank deposits ...

More than five minutes this time?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013
See how they run, see how they run. The DJIA continued to soar to new record highs and it won't be long now till the S&P 5000 joins in the fun - it's less than 21 points (1.3%) away from its own 9 October 2007 top. A few more good days - or one very ...

On positive contagion, reflation and the great rotation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2013
"I think I can make it now, the pain is gone All of the bad feelings have disappeared Here is the rainbow I've been prayin' for It's gonna be a bright (bright), bright (bright) Sun-shiny day." -- Johnny Nash, "I Can See Clearly Now" Remember contagion? ...

Good not great but getting better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
Are they back? Yes them, all those who sold in May and went away? This was my first thought after I clicked through the closing numbers on Wall Street and Europe this morning. For what I saw was good - their respective equity indices jump by over 1.0% ...

Sandy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
The New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq market shuttered last night - the first since September 11, 2001 -- as Hurricane Sandy batters the northeast coast of the United States. They will remain closed for a second day today. Thank goodness the warnings ...