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Optimism may not be enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2009
Flat. This was how Wall Street ended while we were sleeping after climbing non-stop for six straight days. With the investment environment still fluid, investors decided last night to exchange some of their paper profits on equities and commodities ...

Bears cursed by September curse

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2009
General financial market optimism and momentum defeated the curse of September this year. Recall that on the very first day of September I wrote that, "the line of least resistance is for history to re-assert itself." Id est, worries that September ...

Risk of indigestion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2009
Whoa boy! Take it easy. How many times have we been admonished by our elders to chew our food slowly right in the middle of chomping down a big chunk of that juicy, tender, savoury steak? Not once, not twice but many, many times. Because it is the me ...

Savings paradox

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2009
Yesterday's strong rally on Wall Street was followed by a flat performance overnight. Is Wall Street catching its breath before taking another jump? Or is it taking a deep breath for diving? Such is the uncertainty created by the current global economic ...

The Ides of March

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
In the Roman calendar, the ides of March refers to the 15th day of the month of March. It was a festive day celebrating the Mars, the god of war. In modern times it has taken on an ominous sense ever since Julius Caesar's assassination on this date ...

The January effect

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2009
Where's the January effect when you need it most? Wikipedia describes this stock market phenomenon best: "The January effect is the tendency of the stock market to rise between December 31 and the end of the first week in January. There are many theories ...

Four Bad 'Bers'

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2008
... Ordinaries -29.6 -41.3 -44.3 S&P 500 -23.6 -37.5 -39.5 Dow Jones -21.9 -33.1 -34.0 Nikkei-225 -32.9 -48.1 -45.7 Dow Jones Stoxx -32.7 -45.0 -46.7 FTSE-100 -24.2 -35.0 -33.3 Shanghai Composite -58.7 -71.0 -61.6 The strong stock market rally on Wall Street ...

The luckier country

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2008
The Australian equity market continues to follow the fortunes of its peers in America, Europe and Asia although economic and business fundamentals here are in much better shape than most of its global counterparts. So far this year, developed equity ...

Look out below

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2008
'This is a once in a half century, probably once in a century type of event.' (Alan Greenspan). Are we headed for a repeat of the global depression of the 1930s? This might sound too alarmist but indeed, quite a possibility as one giant US financial ...

Conflicting rate calls

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2008
There's growing expectation among European economists that the European Central Bank (ECB) will be forced to follow the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England and start lowering interest rates. Ironically, iterations from executive board member Juergen ...