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China no slow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 JAN 2011
... China to revalue its currency has not work. Neither have threats of trade sanctions. Now it has come to this. "You owe us!" Sorry Uncle Sam, but who owes who? Beijing's now got you by your cojones. More so now that China just keeps on growing. Reports ...

Researcher van Eyk appoints two, Ruddock departs

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2011
... extensive background in investment houses and financial research. He congratulated Ruddock on her new role. "Although we are sorry she has decided to move on, we wish her all the best in her new career."

Fearing September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2010
... bankruptcy and set the chain of events that brought financial markets and economies down to their knees? September 15 2008. Sorry I didn't mean to scare you. Yes, the historical stats may provide overwhelming evidence of a poor September outcome. But ...

House call

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2010
... 2001 US recession. New home sales reached levels of more than 1,200,000 units during the housing bubble from 2003 to 2006. Sorry to burst your collective bubbles, but the jury's still out of the US housing market at this point in time. If you want to ...

All aboard

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2010
... Dow ended just a few bips below three per cent. According to news reports the trigger for Wall Street's resurgence was, sorry were: The International Council of Shopping Centers declared that it expects sales to show an average monthly expansion of 4 ...

World peace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2010
... measures to foster economic growth." To me this reads, those who can borrow to buy growth can do so. Those who can't well...sorry folks. But be happy in the knowledge that the growth that those who borrowed to buy it could help those who no longer couldn't ...

First femme PM

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2010
... their minds." The announcement would have boosted mining shares... they "may" be able to keep "all" of their super profits. Sorry to say, they didn't. BHP closed 0.7 per cent lower from its opening price and Rio Tinto closed half a per cent down from ...

Trillion dollar kitchen sink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2010
In the words of Coney Francis, "Who's sorry now?" "I tried to warn you somehow You had your way Who's sorry now..." Shocked and awed. Yes, Virginia, this was how speculators felt when they were forced to cover their short positions after the European ...

Sell in May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2010
... Ultimately, it'll fall into place. Go away. This is a phrase that everybody wants to tell Greece -- especially Germany (oh sorry, Merkel has been saying this to Papandreou for months now). The European Union/IMF have agreed to keep the Greek isle afloat ...

La de da de da

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2010
... ISM report its direction is "growing" and rate of change is "faster". The beat goes on in Europe as well. Didn't we say, sorry I say before that Europe would not allow Greece to fail? Here's French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde's statement on radio ...