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Lookin' good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 DEC 2010
... then. But if you look beyond the negative sensationalist headlines that accompany each downward movement in the financial markets - commentators are expected to earn their keep by finding rationales (even suns spots) to explain the markets' daily movements ...

60 Minutes deception

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 DEC 2010
... S&P 500 slid by 0.1 per cent and the Nasdaq hopped by 0.1 per cent. And with nothing to do and nowhere to go, financial markets were forced to replay Big Ben Bernanke's weekend interview with Scott Pelley on "60 Minutes". They didn't like it on its first ...

Winter wonderland

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2010
... made, Walking in a winter wonderland." -- Composed by Felix Bernard, sang by everybody Yes Virgie, even the financial markets appear to be on a Christmas carolling mood these days. "Gone away is the bluebird." Last week's market activity saw Christmas ...

ECB relents, sort of

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
... blood, bond market vigilantes will be out for more. Just you wait when Europeans come back to go a-begging in the financial markets next year. Bloomberg reports that Portuguese banks need to refinance debts amounting 85 billion in 2011. The Greeks need ...

Open fire roasted bears

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2010
... instead of boring with you with incessant repetitions that: One: Fears of a Chinese slowdown are exaggerated. Financial markets can speculate about this over democratic systems where economic agents act and react according to their best interests. But ...

Danger everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 DEC 2010
... future. Everything seems downhill from here. But you know what, these were the same extrapolations that caught financial markets off guard not too long ago. Remember when people everywhere (circa GFC) were shouting, "the end of the world as we know it"? ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 NOV 2010
... economics news on Tuesday, headlined by a speech in Sydney by Reserve Bank of Australia assistant governor (financial markets), Guy Debelle, to the Australian Securitisation Forum. In data, the Australian Bureau of Statistics issues figures on the balance ...

A QEasy road ahead for investors

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2010
... "policy makers can focus too much on risks that have passed, and fail to identify new risks that are brewing." For financial markets, "the cure eventually becomes the disease", he said. "For example, financial market deregulation drove the recovery from ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
... "We have not gone down to the extent that they have where there was not a positive lead." Mr Chatterton said financial markets were reacting to the uncertainty caused by the clash on the Korean peninsula and the debt woes in Europe. "In very short-term ...

When everything went wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
... whoever takes power in Ireland next year would comply and the economy would limp back to health very slowly. Financial markets would forget all about it, like they did Greece. But then... they'll start searching for whos' next. They're scouting around ...