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Iffy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2010
... iffy US employment growth comes in within expectations - worse, iffy they surprise on the down side. This has been the Street's monthly routine. The US Labor Department will release the US employment stats for March on Good Friday (their time) - and ...

When old news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2010
... that US existing home sales fell for a a third consecutive month in February and inventories are rising did not bother The Street. Neither did the 0.6 per cent fall in Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) home price index. Why? They were better than ...

Still a two-way street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2010
... at 9.7 per cent versus forecasts for a rise to 9.8 per cent. Easy enough, isn't it? Both numbers beat expectations, the Street should be jubilant...we're on our way to the land of Oz - both the mythical one and Aussieland (Australia's unemployment rate ...

Up, down, flat trading day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2010
... and investors get a hold of the US Non-farm Payrolls report. I pity the finance reporter who's writing to write about the Street's performance overnight. Early trading saw the major indices climb. Okay that's good enough. There's an explanation for that. ...

Data data everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2010
... there's only the day's performance isn't it? Oh, but 'undecideds' could also point to the daily seesaw performance on the Street last week. This is hardly surprising given the mixed indications provided by latest US data. Bad data. US consumer confidence ...

Positive spin to bad news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2010
... Analyse this! US home sales tumble big time as Wall Street rises. Yes Virginia, the past two days of trading activity on The Street exemplifies the equity market's wild and wacky psychology -- that's if you're watching the daily ups and downs. Yesterday ...

Penny for Benny's thoughts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2010
... truth is this is another random walk by a drunken sailor. Nothing much really happened overnight. A 0.1 per cent dip on The Street? Big deal! The truth is financial markets are waiting on the sidelines for the really big event - at least for this week. ...

The I word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2009
... fear of its return spooked Wall Street into losing more than half a per cent last night. Inflation cast its shadow on the Street after the US Labor Department released figures showing that the country's headline producer price index jumped by 1.8 per ...

The Art of War

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2009
'Twas another boring day on the Street last night. News out of America showed continued weakness - or is it renewed weakening - in housing and behaved consumer price inflation. Both of which bolster the argument that the Fed will be easy for how much ...

Weight in gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2009
... unemployment rate jumped to double-digits - 10.2 per cent? To use an Australian expression, 'she'll be right mate' was the Street's reaction. Why? Why? Why? I'm sounding like a Billy Connolly ad now. Because its kind Uncles announced that some stimulus ...