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What's luck got to do with it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2013

Li gets what Li likes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2013

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
... Chinese export data suggested better times for the world's second-biggest economy. The rally was given further strength by a Russian proposal to put Syrian chemical weapons under international control. The US reacted cautiously to the plan, which comes ...

Withdrawal anxiety

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2013

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2013
... 1.5 cents at $5.015. But Ms Roadley said the resources sector, and particularly smaller miners, had been hurt by news a Russian Potash cartel would be broken up. BHP was 18 cents lower at $34.77, while Rio Tinto had dropped three cents to $57.68. KEY ...

Ben's all that matters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2013
... United States and the European Union, or reports of another Labor leadership broil in Australia or even the viral video of Russian President Vladimir Putin speaking in English...but nothing else matters for financial market players and practitioners ...

The death of QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2013
... economy from the pitfalls of our bigger neighbours as it has done during the 1997 Asian crisis, the 1998 LTCM bankruptcy and Russian debt default, September 11, 2001, the 2002 US recession and the 2008 global financial crisis, to name a few. The Australian ...

I was there!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
Get behind me Satan! I was ever so tempted to simply regurgitate the financial headlines and commentaries and blogs that went blinkety-blink on my screen this morning. It would have made my day a bit easier. The headlines differed yes...but at the same ...

Template of a bail-in?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2013
... would be shuttered -- virtually destroying the bank's senior bondholders (who cares, they're mostly allegedly illicit Russian money anyway?) and merged into the country's biggest bank, the Bank of Cyprus. Deposits below a,-100,000 would be safe but those ...

Falling BRICs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013
... their money out of their domestic bourses. "Trading by Brazilian individuals has dropped to the lowest level since 1999...Russian mutual funds posted 16 straight months of outflows, the most since at least 1996, and withdrawals in India are the biggest ...