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Been there, done that

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2010
... done it some good. It left pondering the tug o' war between good company profit results and negative economic data. The Street didn't like what it saw. Investors sold... heavily. Wall Street returned last night, still pondering the tug o' war between ...

Contra confidence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2010
... growth - at worst, a double-dip -- and all the sinister consequences it'll have on our combined and individual fortunes? The Street hit a brick wall on its final day of trading last week with the Dow down by 2.5 per cent and the S&P 500 giving up 2.9 ...

Saved by BP and Goldman

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2010
... most its trading day worrying about weak economic data at home. Oil spill plugged. BP shares surged by 7.6 per cent on The Street on reports that the test cap on the Gulf of Mexico is working - the first time that oil has stopped flowing (money haemorrhaging ...

Looking good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUL 2010
... attention turned to profits, profits and profits - and strong ones at that - the celebration in the equity markets rolls. The Street turned in another strong performance while we were sleeping - and so did Europe. A reaction from the solid and better-than-expected ...

First femme PM

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2010
The morning after. Either you're still reading the obituaries and the political assassination of Kevin Rudd or you have moved on to congratulate Australia's first femme PM - Julia Gillard. I won't bore you with the details. Pick up any local daily or ...

Bring it on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUN 2010
... Wall Street last night. This to me indicates that while there is optimism, it may be uncertain optimism. I don't blame The Street, I would too if am looking at estimates ranging from a gain of 100K to a head spinning 750K, confounded further by another ...

US consumers to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAY 2010
... is that Wall Street rose from the ashes of a deep 3 per cent-plus slump last night to close in positive territory. The Street did a U-turn in a span of six-and-a-half hours (NYSE trades between 0930 to 1600) inspite of the increasing number of "ghosts" ...

Liar

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2010
"Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive." - Sir Walter Scott (Marmion, 1808) Greece has just climb 10 notches up crap creek when Eurostat - the European Union's official Statistician - called it a liar. Eurostat revealed last ...

Wall Street beauties

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2010
... yesterday that Wall Street's uptrend could run out of steam in the very near-term, the cyclical pick up remains in place. The Street continued to celebrate the equity market indices breach of their psychological resistance level last night. To be sure ...

Easter egg hunt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
... the risen share prices. And this despite the US non-farm payrolls report coming in well... short of expectations. Had the Street been opened for business on Good Friday, I'm pretty sure that the knee-jerk reaction would be to sell share holdings. But ...