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Recycled fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2010
"Wall Street drops on China price worries" - afr.com.au. "Wall Street slumps on China concerns" - new.com.au. "Stocks, Commodities Slide on China Concern; Treasuries Tumble" - Bloomberg.com. "US shares drop on China inflation worries" - Reuters via ...

QE2 or bust

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
... month? That was when - according to the National Bureau of Economic Research Business Cycle Dating Committee - the US recession ended. Well guess what? The fresh data on industrial output suggest - rather, confirm -- the renewed weakness in America. ...

Gotta love gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2010
We've been told that the US recession officially died 15 months ago and Wall Street, it seems, is no longer grieving. In fact, the S&P 500 index looks on track to claim its "biggest September gain in 71 years" - unless Bloomberg is mistaken, that is ...

Much ado over more of the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
... decides - or more, importantly, whatever it says it will do. Their mood optimistic, boosted by the knowledge that the US recession ended a long time ago - 15 months to be exact. But that was yesterday. Today, Wall Street wasn't so sure. The Dow closed ...

Recession over, now for the recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
... months." With these words, the National Bureau of Economic Research Business Cycle Dating Committee pronounced that the US recession that began in December 2007 is officially "dead, buried and cremated". And guess what? This is what our prescient Financial ...

Bond rush

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 AUG 2010
... crash, the 1990/91 recession, Asian financial crisis, the Russian default, the bursting of the dtocom bubble, the 2001 US recession and September 11, and the GFC, among others. The herd mentality does not only apply to equities, commodities and properties. ...

Torturing the data

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2010
And they're off... and running! The bears are back loitering the financial playgrounds hand in hand with the sensationalist media and heads that talk on your PCs, laptops, iPhones or plain old HDTV screens. Apparently we're now just a click away from ...

Usual uncertainty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUL 2010
... boom times. History shows that the magnitude of the drops and rebounds and drops and rebounds increases after every US recession. Then it stabilises at a higher level before proceeding higher. This is what we're currently witnessing now. Consumer confidence ...

House call

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2010
... house sales, current levels are still just over a third of the roughly 900K units annualised just after the 2001 US recession. New home sales reached levels of more than 1,200,000 units during the housing bubble from 2003 to 2006. Sorry to burst your ...

Just a typical pause

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUL 2010
... 1994...0.64......4.37...........Q1 2005.....1.00........3.35 Q4 1994...1.11......4.16...........Q2 2005.....0.43........3.06 *Periods of US recession. **NBER date 4Q 2007 start of recession -- no official end date yet. Things to note: The NBER marked ...