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Bad news bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2011
ave the grizzlies driven the dip buyers away? Americans came back from their President's Day holiday and saw that nervy days are back again. The S&P 500 index dropped by 2.1 per cent overnight - its biggest in 6 months - and the VIX or "fear index" ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2011
... companies are releasing quarterly earnings. In the afternoon, the Federal Reserve will give its monthly snapshot of Americans' borrowing. Private economists forecast that consumer borrowing rose at an annual rate of $2.5 billion in December, nearly double ...

Shopping till unemployment drops

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2010
If there is one proof that no one can fight against nature, it is the Americans and shopping. Yes Virginia, they continue to shop in stores and and even online! And they're not only window-shopping... they are actually exchanging money for goods and ...

Grinch vs Santa

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2010
... for recovery. This was ensured by BO's (Barrack Obama not Ben Ong) announcement yesterday of the tax extension deal. Americans will now not have less money come the New Year. Plus, the global outlook is better and investors no longer need to hold US ...

60 Minutes deception

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 DEC 2010
... reserves, hoping that those reserves eventually gets lent out. And money is the thing that gets lent out, money for Americans to spend. It has to come from somewhere. SP: Can you act quickly enough to prevent inflation from getting out of control? BB ...

US considers retirement reforms

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2010
... leakage from high fees and early withdrawals and allow for pooled investments that can spread risk," it continued. "Americans need a fiscally responsible personal retirement savings system that is advanced funded...and accumulates funds for investments ...

Turkeys, PIGS and Koreans

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2010
While investors had no recourse but to leave Americans at peace to bite heartily into their Thanksgiving turkeys - markets were closed - many were still shooting down European PIGS at the same time that Koreans were shooting down each other. After sending ...

What ifs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
... their mortgage... give everyone $1 million." As for jobs. The October private non-farm payrolls report showed employed Americans earned US$779.64 weekly. This translates to a total wage bill of US$40,541.28 a year. You know how many workers could be ...

Lookin' good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 NOV 2010
... climbed 17 percent" in the year to October. Now how could the Uncle Sam collect more tax revenues from taxpayers if Americans are really in such a bad state as some pundits claim? The answer is they're not. And their lot is improving.

Healing US, crouching Europe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 NOV 2010
... eight months. Good. Yes, good. That takes care of America's problem with the threat of deflation and the millions of Americans who are still looking for jobs. Maybe... The US$600 billion QE2 package has lifted commodity prices and is now raising inflation ...