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Cycling up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 FEB 2011
... is both camps are dissecting the US employment report to its sub-atomic parts to find rationales for their views. And it shall be so next month and the month after... and the next. Ever heard of "not seeing the forest for the trees"? The fact is that ...

Better and better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 FEB 2011
... managers indices in China, India, the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Ireland, Sweden, Brazil, Czech Republic, Turkey... shall I go on? Markit Economics latest report shows that they're all above 50 and rising -- which means yes, they're expanding. ...

Year of the Bunny

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2011
... money can be made easily. It's "a placid year". A year to "get some rest after all the battles of the previous year." We shall see.

Whac-a-mole 2.0

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
... per cent is hardly what I would call globally depressing slow. Beijing targets growth of around 10 per cent this year, it shall be so. Comrade Wen could turn on the pump just as instantly as he's able to turn it off. Ahhh... the joys of a command economy ...

Healing US, crouching Europe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 NOV 2010
... enough, especially coming on the heels of the GFC-induced sharp economic contraction. The Fed's action ensures that this shall be done. America would be A-OK! So that's that. The G-19 and other smaller economies may not like it but it's problem solved ...

The Cup, the RBA and the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2010
... tomorrow for the race that stops a nation. Odds-on favourite is for So You Think to pass the finish line in strides. We shall see! But even before the horses start running at 1500 hours, the financial markets would have had their Tuesday fix courtesy ...

Punting on next week

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2010
... showed. But seemingly nobody cared, "not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse". For exactly one week from now, all these shall pass. Exactly one week from now, financial markets would be unwrapping their early Christmas present from the US Federal ...

Watching the A$ watch the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 SEP 2010
... Market Committee Meeting will result in no result. The Fed will decide to do nothing on interest rates - the fed funds rate shall stay at 0-0.25 per cent. And since this is a boring exercise for financial markets, they have to find something to worry ...

Stress test stress

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2010
... in Greece). The CEBS found that these terrible seven only needs fresh funding of around a,-3.5 billion and then they too shall be healed. This is what - only about a tenth of the a,-30 billion markets were expecting. But as they say (to this day, I still ...

All aboard

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2010
... rally like last night, they have no other choice. There's also good news in Europe. It goes along the lines of "the truth shall set you free." In an emailed statement, the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) told lenders that its planned ...