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A week's walk on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 APR 2013
There were ups and downs on Wall Street the week before this week, just as the week before that, and before that, and...with each daily dose of data taken to confirm whatever pre-conceived biases we have. It just takes a short walk down the very short ...

Fed sorted easy, now for the ceiling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2013
... participants engaged for or against the possible move. They were so focused on semantics they missed the big picture. But nah, it wasn't me. It was a greater mortal and his name is James: James Bullard, president of the St. Louis Federal Reserve and ...

Puke on the punchbowl

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2013
... a day. You can forget that now, for it looks like some people got so giddy, they puked on the Fed's punchbowl. Yuck! But, nah. According to reports, it's because the Fed might take away the punchbowl altogether. And you know what happens when that happens ...

Nikkei 13K

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2013

"Others" are still fearful

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
... austerity policies and cancel a hated property tax". An offer they can't refuse? Italian yields rose by 15 bips to 4.48%. Nah, it wasn't so much this unsettling news but the financial markets' reaction to the news. They showed fear! The S&P 500 index ...

It's happening

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2013

Propensity for foot shooting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2013

Uncertainly certain RBA cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2012
I had a contented smile on my face before I laid my head down to sleep last night. Nah, it's not because of what you're thinking...but because European equities were in the midst on an uptrend and Wall Street was starting out strong. All because of ...

Coming in 2014: Aussie recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2012
... blame me, my predictions didn't pan out because this happened or that didn't happen. But who knows? Steen could be right. But nah... even google says nah! In his article headed, 'Farfetched forecasts with a ring of realism,' published on www.thenational.ae ...

Flip flop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2012
... another euro cent dropped into its begging bowl one day (and from a broader perspective the euro area will do a Humpty Dumpty), nah it's not the next and... although it's become lesser of a concern these days, there's still flip-flopping between a hard ...