Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 91 - 100 of 150 results for "Shall"

Sunny side up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2011
"Grab your coat and leave your hat Leave your worries on your doorstep Life can be so sweet On the sunny side of the street." -Louis Armstrong, On the Sunny Side of the Street Whew! After the nerve-wracking "will it won't it" - default, be bailed out ...

Same time last year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2011
... currently see the recent increase in inflation as transitory and expect inflation to remain subdued in the medium term." I shall make you a believer too. Here's what he said in his speech at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars on 8 June ...

U-G-L-Y

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2011
... better hope and wish and pray real hard for I don't think financial markets would tolerate a QE4. And from thereon the Fed shall be called Sisyphus (the Greek mythological bloke who's forever pushing a boulder up a mountain).

Convince me

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2011
... statistically rare. The index reached 60 and above readings only 53 times over the past 497 months (since January 1970). You too shall believe brother, when you look at the "big disappointment" that the ADP private employment data created. ADP reported ...

Any which way is good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2011
... nothing but enjoying our holiday. As far as Wall Street goes, optimism was in the air even before the opening bell - or shall I say, dip buyers were all geared up. The S&P 500 and the Dow jumped to their highest levels since 2008 and the Nasdaq since ...

JMK rules

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
... 2011. Undaunted? More likely, financial markets are undaunted by the turbulence of the past three months because "this too shall pass" - more so because things continue to pick up in the world's biggest economy. Fresh US data instalments overnight confirmed ...

We shall overcome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2011
"We shall overcome someday; Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe, We shall overcome someday. The Lord will see us through, The Lord will see us through, The Lord will see us through someday..." Just replace "The Lord" in the lyrics above with the "The ...

Japan shall overcome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2011
The still-unfolding disaster in Japan is sapping the optimism off financial markets. Stock markets rallied yesterday but it looks like they'll be down again today. Volatility is the order of today and would remain so for as long as strong aftershocks ...

Buy a toaster

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2011
... opportunity, and there is an abundance of that in America." He's not wrong there. And gauging from last night's Fedspeak, it shall remain so. New York Fed President William Dudley noted that while America's economy has "improved considerably... we are ...

Sentiment slips on oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
Months of anxiety over rising inflation, speculation over near-term hikes in interest rates (in the developed economies) and/or actual hikes in interest rates (in emerging markets), lingering doubts over the US recovery, policy mistake and then a hard ...