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Repressed rally

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2013
... The question is will we see a random walk back to the peak or a random trek down to the cliff? Oh no! Not the cliff again. Sorry folks, but we've got to face that US demon once more... and very soon. And again, it's been so far so good. Recent rhetoric ...

Beggar me not my neighbour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013
Going for the ceiling. Sorry folks, this time it's not about the US debt ceiling. It's about Wall Street making another run for the all-time high it reached back before the GFC stood for the Geelong Football Club and not the Global Financial Crisis. ...

You did this! No, you did!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012
... leadership in China then. No one's sure how the Xi-Jinping/Li Keqiang tandem would fare compared with Batman and Robin, sorry, Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao in terms of the direction for the Chinese economy. But China is about the preservation of the legacy ...

Data deluge delivers no clearer visibility

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2012
... remain. Yes, that austerity that pushes unemployment (and taxes) higher and growth lower. Lower growth in Europe - oops, sorry what growth? - flows into slower activity in China. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has just reduced its China growth estimate ...

Green lights on green shoots

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2012
... chastised by the media (social or otherwise) to Britain's princess Kate snapped - bottomless this time - in France. Oops, sorry wrong news. What's not supposed to happen are the equity market boards lighting up mostly green when economies around the ...

It's still the hole, stups

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2012

Known knowns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2012
... waiting for that one instant moment, one data point, one word, which will make this seemingly endless nightmare go away. Sorry to disappoint but Rome was not built in a day. Healing takes time, it's a process, not one silver bullet. And it's happening ...

Not ugly enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
... and them voila!, actual beat lowered expectations and their stock prices jump. But back to the disappointing jobs report. Sorry to disappoint, financial markets could be disappointed because the jobs numbers weren't disappointing enough to prod the Fed ...

UK launches bank probe amid Libor scandal

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
... government. Barclays overnight confirmed the resignation of Agius, who issued a mea culpa statement writing, "I am truly sorry that our customers, clients, employees and shareholders have been let down." "As chairman, I am the ultimate guardian of the ...

Go ahead Europe, make my day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012
... would not have shared total debt liability "as long as I live". The anti-austerity crusaders now know what they have to do. Sorry Frau Merkel, just kidding. Quite right, Virginia. It's the same underlying problem -- Germany's refusal to underwrite its ...