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There's the good news and there's the good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2012
... you've been warned. Certainly, there'll be more days ahead when fear again overwhelms - such is the nature of financial markets - but if there's one overriding investment theme for this year, it's that, good news is good and bad news is good. Good news ...

Wow on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2012
... hip... So you don't get no, no more stimulation. For Ben's a jolly good fella. But because "strains in global financial markets continue to pose significant downside risks to the economic outlook... we remain prepared to do more as needed to make sure ...

Dickens on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2012
... or two paragraphs here and there. I recalled Charles' words - ok, google helped - as I was going through the financial markets' reaction to the mixed bag news and reports released over the past week. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. ...

Missing the forest for the daily grind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2012
... you're trying to put food on the table by making sense of the daily ups and downs and ups... and downs in the financial markets. Sometimes you win and you're exulted as a genius, other times you lose and all that's missing is a big L sign tattooed on ...

Dip buyers buy the dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2012
... in December, when 10-year yields climbed to 6.027%, the VIX index read 26.04 - which itself is not alarming. Financial markets weren't that spooked then because the spook spurred the ECB into action and introduced the LTRO, it did so again last month ...

The Fed, the ECB and the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2012
... looks inconsistent with the negative sentiment for the US economy - and the world - doing the rounds in the financial markets only yesterday, doesn't it? The foul mood that was sparked by disappointment over one month's US jobs number. The one that supposedly ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2012
... financial stability Luci Ellis takes part in a panel discussion at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta 2012 Financial Markets Conference. In equities news, APN News & Media Ltd is due to hold an extraordinary general meeting for a shareholder vote on ...

Social media trials in US continue

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2012
... LinkedIn and Twitter, however regulatory rules prevented more detailed use. At a recent Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) seminar in the US, Morgan Stanley confirmed that it is also developing a mobile application that will ...

No QE, not bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2012
... closely. The minutes talked of improvement, expansion and advancement in the economy and easing strains in global financial markets, among a host of other positive assessments. Here's a snippet of the FOMC minutes so you can judge for yourself: "Information ...

No greed, no fear, no volume

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2012
... expectations for global growth have indeed worsened? Now how could the price of copper have any hope of rising if financial markets' are really, truly convinced that China - the biggest gobbler of the metal (it consumes about 40% of total global production ...