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Ready to turn on the tap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
... these we get, the stronger the case for QE3 becomes. Here's Bloomberg's take: "Stocks rebounded after the Wall Street Journal reported that three former top officials at the Fed said the central bank should consider a new round of securities purchases ...

Higher US interest rates possible on downgrade

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2011
... Jones Industrial Average falling for the fourth straight day, down 198.75 points, or 1.6% to 12,302.55, the Wall Street Journal reported. Demand for US Treasury debt was also poor at an auction, it said. Chris Molumphy, chief investment officer of Franklin ...

Time to call it quits - again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... American crisis back in the late 1980s. It succeeded! Turns out I wasn't the only one thinking about this. The Wall Street Journal named two: Charles Dallara, managing director of the Institute of International Finance and Barry Eichengreen, economics ...

Back to cactus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2011
... double-dip. And right on cue, we have Yale University economist Robert Schiller saying just that. According to the Wall Street Journal, "Noted economist Robert Shiller said Wednesday there was a "substantial" probability the U.S. could lurch again into ...

Silver bullet downs market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011
... Rumours begin to circulate. Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim is rumoured to be selling silver futures. Also, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that George Soros and other investors are unloading their gold and silver holdings. But hang on for ...

Pain sans hysteria

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2011
... On top of these, the Bank of Japan is now adding more liquidity to the financial system. According to the Wall Street Journal, "Japan's central bank has offered a total of 55.6 trillion yen ($724 billion) of short-term funds in the past three days, including ...

Headlining the core

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2011
... Chinese stats office re-weighting of the CPI component - less food weight and more for housing items. The Wall Street Journal calculates that inflation would have been up 5.1 per cent using the old weights. Even in America, higher prices are being blamed ...

Cashed-up China eyes US investments

... possibilities with US president Obama during the recent state visit by China president Hu Jintao, reported the Asia Wall Street Journal. Lenovo is seen as having its finger of the pulse of US investments and political attitudes following its 2005 purchase ...

Of Jobs, Hu and Obama

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2011
... ultimately shake hands and announce their close and cordial partnership. President Hu has already told the Wall Street Journal that, "We both stand to gain from a sound China-US relationship, and lose from confrontation." President Obama, in turn, would ...

Shopping till unemployment drops

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2010
... keep on saving. That would be so un-American! They've developed "frugality fatigue" -- a term coined by the Wall Street Journal on 3 December 2010 when it reported on the better-than-expected Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving) sales. This is what ...