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Not a jobless double-dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2010
... administrative assistant in Virginia since she lost her job at a publishing company in May 2009." And this from The Wall Street Journal, "US Stocks Skid As Jobs Data Fan Economic Worries" where it quoted Canaccord Adams' managing director of equity trading ...

To spend or not to spend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2010
... thumb at the weekend's G-20 Summit in Toronto... not anymore. To spend... or not to spend. According to the Wall Street Journal, the debate would centre on: "What is the biggest threat to growth, diminished demand or escalating debt?" America proposes ...

Death by algorithm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
... erroneous trades transacted last night. Here's a sample from the list of companies that hit zero compiled by the Wall Street Journal : Accenture - opened at US$41.94, hit zero at around 2:50 and then closed at US$41.09. Exelon - opened at US$43.35, hit ...

Seek and thou shalt find

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2010
... regulatory overhaul issue in America that the IMF wants extended to the rest of the world. According to the Wall Street Journal, IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said that "there was broad agreement on the need for consensus and coordination ...

Rules, rules, rules

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2010
... Fund (IMF) is proposing a commandment of its own. "Thou shall pay tithe to a general fund." According to the Wall Street Journal, the IMF "advised Group-of-20 nations to tax balance sheets, profits and compensation of financial institutions to reduce ...

La de da de da

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2010
... will succeed in refinancing itself through ways that we are exploring at the moment." And according to the Wall Street Journal, an official close to the French government stated that, " We are ready to help Greece and to consider all appropriate measures ...

Harvard puts property on sale

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2010
... $5 billion-plus real estate portfolio to lessen its exposure to embattled property markets. According to a Wall Street Journal report, the fund is looking to deploy its cash outside of property and is willing to sell any part of its real estate assets. ...

Yamashita's treasure

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2009
... gold bullions, bars, ingots and coins, warehouses and vaults are overloaded and running out of space. The Wall Street Journal reports that HSBC - owner of one of the biggest vaults in the US - are sending retail investors away to make room for its institutional ...

Undue credit (ratings)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2009
... Shame, shame, shame. You've gone back to your old ways, haven't you? No use denying, we have an eyewitness. The Wall Street Journal reports that Moody's continue to issue inflated ratings. Mr. Eric Kolchinky, a former ratings analyst for the company ...

Best laid plan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
... signs of stabilisation." I won't bore you with the details of Bernanke's exit strategy (it is available in The Wall Street Journal's op-ed section - all 1,266 words and 20 paragraphs of it). The main thing to note is that the US Federal Reserve has a ...