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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 ...

Iffy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2010
... iffy US employment growth comes in within expectations - worse, iffy they surprise on the down side. This has been the Street's monthly routine. The US Labor Department will release the US employment stats for March on Good Friday (their time) - and ...

When old news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2010
... that US existing home sales fell for a a third consecutive month in February and inventories are rising did not bother The Street. Neither did the 0.6 per cent fall in Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) home price index. Why? They were better than ...

Still a two-way street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2010
... at 9.7 per cent versus forecasts for a rise to 9.8 per cent. Easy enough, isn't it? Both numbers beat expectations, the Street should be jubilant...we're on our way to the land of Oz - both the mythical one and Aussieland (Australia's unemployment rate ...