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Wonderfully wrong September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2010
... October 2008 or when it declined by 8.9 per cent on 1 December 2008. What's that I hear you say? That, that was 2008 -- Lehman just went belly up, credit markets seized, economies were contracting and stimulus measures were just being planned? Thank ...

Gotta love gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2010
... just before the GFC but it is also way lower than the peak reading of 80.89 points hit two months after the collapse of Lehman Bros in September 2008. From the time Lehman Bros closed its doors to the present, physical gold has returned nearly 67 per ...

Fuld me twice

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2010
Almost two years after the failure of Lehman Brothers sent global markets into the tailspin that would eventually become the GFC, shamed former chairman and chief executive of the bank, Dick Fuld, fronted a Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) ...

Fearing September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2010
... negative average return. For each of the other 11 months, investors gained nearly one percent on average." Still not scared? Lehman Brothers. When exactly did it file for bankruptcy and set the chain of events that brought financial markets and economies ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2010
... cent on the week. Japanese markets are closed on Monday, a situation that makes some traders nervous since the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 also happened on a three-day weekend in Japan. HONG KONG - Hong Kong shares were flat on Friday as investors ...

More worries

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2010
... these fears worthy of the sell-off we've seen over the past few weeks? It's as if we're going back to the bad ol' days of Lehman. Financial markets are acting as if another meltdown is coming. But look around and you'll see that economic and financial ...

US consumers to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAY 2010
... even quoted the head of market analysis at Schneider Foreign Exchange saying that the European banks' problems will be "Lehman times Ten." Sure it may happen, if Newton's third law of motion doesn't apply. Remember it? "For every action, there's an equal ...

Gold is hip again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2010
... reached a record high of US$1248.95 an ounce in intra-day trade. It is now almost 60 per cent above its selling price since Lehman Brothers closed its doors on 15 September 2008. Gold's performance becomes even more spectacular when you consider that ...

Global Sovereign Crisis

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2010
... Bank of England deputy governor Sir John Gieve. Commenting on the crisis, Sir John said that, "...there has been sort of a Lehman's moment in the EU... They have sort of dithered over this. Will they, won't they, should they, shouldn't they, as a result ...

Too much ado about Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2010
... contrary, the EU and the IMF tandem will not leave Greece in ruins. It's just unfathomable to think otherwise. Not with Lehman Bros' bankruptcy still fresh in the minds of authorities. Not given recent history. The IMF was there during the Asian currency ...