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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 ...

Danger everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 DEC 2010
... China, Will Robinson. In its bid to choke off inflation, Beijing might be strangling its economy to death. The Wall Street Journal reported that, "In a statement issued late Monday, the State Council, China's cabinet, said it will revise a government ...

Chireland hurdled

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
... its stress test. I wrote back then that the stress test results were too good to be true. In September, the Wall Street Journal printed that the July stress test only tested for potential losses on government bonds that are traded by the banks. Bonds ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
... the way, after reports the bank failed to win control of South Korea's fifth-largest bank. According to the Wall Street Journal, South Korea's Hana Financial Group won control of Korea Exchange Bank, beating ANZ. ANZ was up 19 cents at $23.27. Commonwealth ...

Smaller QE2 is not all that bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
... form any other source, I would quickly dismiss it as plain rumour mongering. But no! It was the venerable Wall Street Journal that broke the news. "The central bank is likely to unveil a program of U.S. Treasury bond purchases worth a few hundred billion ...

Pigs are bacon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2010
... overestimated." In case you think that this is idle second hand bedroom chitchat, here's a print from the Wall Street Journal, "Geither told the Wall Street Journal that major currencies "are roughly in alignment now," a signal that the U.S. does not ...

Challenge your consultants on ESG

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2010
... money, they're working for you - it shouldn't be the other way around," he said. He quotes the example of a Wall Street Journal league table that tracked the performance of international investment banks in 2008 - and how the analysts' stock picks performed ...

True Lies

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
... even the "ice cube trays out of the freezer." There's plenty of bad news to choose from. Take your pick: The Wall Street Journal printed a lotta cheatin' going on at the EU stress test. The WSJ disclosed that "Europe's recent "stress tests" of the strength ...

Fearing September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2010
... stock market and found that since 1929,the S&P declined by 1.3 per cent on average in Septembers. Also, the Wall Street Journal cites finance professor Kenneth French at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business study showing that since 1926, September is ...

Fictional fact

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2010
... closed only 0.2 per cent up. Not exactly the plus one per cent gains of the day before are they? At least The Wall Street Journal was more truthful with its headline, "Dow, Up 0.1%, Clings to Retailer-Driven Rally." Whoops, maybe I typed too soon - is ...