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Thank you, xie xie, arigato

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012

A good new year past the cliff

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2012

Fed money on the way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2012
... currency manipulation would go away and conjures imaginings of a China that's fully embraced the tenets of capitalism. But nah... not this either. It's still in the works but I don't think it'll happen anytime soon. Not when China's looking at Japan ...

Good not great but getting better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
... Street and Europe this morning. For what I saw was good - their respective equity indices jump by over 1.0% last night. But nah, it wasn't that. My chart shows that, instead of following the usual script of going away in May and coming back in November ...

Treats not threats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2012
... all too familiar refrain, "Cause this is thriller, thriller night, and no one's gonna save you from the beast about strike". Nah, not even QE3 - it "is unlikely to lead to a sustained recovery" and that, "the equity-price rise is likely to fizzle out ...

Data deluge delivers no clearer visibility

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2012
... private sector employment last month. In case you're thinking what I think you're thinking and you believe that QE3 will work, nah... this doesn't suggest that QE3 has already started to filter through into the real economy. It won't happen overnight ...

Green lights on green shoots

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2012
... be goodbye. Just ask Bloomberg. Its headline says it all, "Euro-Region Unemployment Rate Rises to Record 11.4%" in August. Nah, this is plain wrong. Revisions show that the jobless stats were already at this level back in June and July. Spain had the ...

Lost

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2012
... large." Looking at the numbers, the IMF would be looking ever so sweet if only it stick with its January predictions. But nah, like many of us, it's being influenced by present day market movements. If a well-resourced behemoth of an institution couldn't ...

Not ugly enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
... dynamics that much, does it not? For all we know, it's just all those sophisticated econometric models that got it wrong. Nah, it'll never be the economists who get it wrong, we have two hands to explain both sides of the argument, always - the "on the ...

Dressing the windows

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2012
... be loved and admired by the rest of Europe - but hated and resisted, because it will perceived as an oppressive power." But nah! Chancellor Angela Merkel is well and that equity market rally overnight was, according to one financial journalist - and ...