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Cognacs and chocolates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2009
... they will work eventually. Once this happens, Obama's battlecry in his election victory speech back in November will ring true. And then it will be cognacs and chocolates in celebration. Yes we can!

2009: The lost year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2009
... already enacted, it will take time before the markets and the real economy can go back to normality. This is particularly true this time. Monetary policy is being blunted as banks are unable to pass on the full amount of the reduction in interest rates. ...

Unlisted assets hold value: BUSS(Q)

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2009
... 35 per cent of BUSS(Q)'s fund under management (FUM), should hold their value. "What we're saying in December is holding true... I've seen some results but I haven't seen anything that's traumatic [in the numbers]," he said. The December statement warned ...

Bad tidings we bring

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2009
With the US economy entering its second year of recession, investors need all the best wishes for the New Year to come true. The problems of 2008 have not gone away - they have worsened. The reason why the equity markets' cheery welcome of 2009 faded ...

Free money can be costly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  SUNDAY, 23 NOV 2008
... Consumers' aversion to spending brought about by the weakening labour market will be further heightened by deflation. The same is true for businesses. Companies could suffer during periods of inflation. If they could not raise their prices as fast as ...

Three rich beggars

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2008
... General Motors. GM said that it has only weeks left before it runs out of cash to meet its financial obligations. The same is true for the other two. All three warned that of a national economic catastrophe should they fold as the lost of millions of ...

Don't worry, be happy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2008
... the economy, about the biggest mistake we could make would be to talk ourselves into unnecessary economic weakness.' How true! This is because economic agents and financial market investors use each other as guideposts. One agent's expectations becomes ...

The best forecaster

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2008
... The simple mathematics of the yield curve governs the relationship between short- and long-term interest rates.' This was true. At the time, the US Federal Reserve raised the fed funds target rate from 1 per cent in May 2004 to 2.5 per cent (at the time ...

G20 to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2008
... early as the third quarter of 2006. Likewise, US house sales have shifted into reverse as early as January 2006. The same is true in most countries in Europe. Labour. Unemployment rates in many developed nations are rising. While Australia's jobless ...

The good oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
... business costs. At one point, European farmers, fishermen and bakers took to the streets to demand cheaper oil. The same was true in many Asian countries. Investors hit by the equity bear market shifted their money into what appeared back then as an ...