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The pain in Spain does not fall mainly on the plain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
Take one central banker's lack of faith at the recent action of the institution he serves, add rumours that a region threatens to secede from a country in a region that's desperately trying to stay as one, and what do we get? We get a problem Houston. ...

Childhood determines who rises to the top

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2012
... bleak contrast, men who rise to the top typically grow up in stable traditional family environments with a stay at home mother and professionally employed fathers. Fitzsimmons said that in order to get more women in leadership roles, change must start ...

The end is not nigh

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2012
... not paying back its debts) and lots of drachmas to gain - the Bank of Greece could print paper money again. Yippee ki yay mother. Belated happy mother's day to all moms out there by the way. The il problemo is that I don't think Europe's powers that ...

Bumps along the way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2012
... speculated, the much awaited, the indicator that'll set the tone in the financial markets over the next four weeks, that mother of all eco stats -- the US Non-farm Payrolls report - settled nothing when it was released last week. Wall Street's knee-jerk ...

Mexican standoff

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2012

Waiting for jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012
... headlines this morning, it's all about Wall Street - and of course all its lesser cousins around the world - waiting on the "mother of all economic statistics, the US Non-farm Payrolls Report. There weren't a lot of shaking that went on in the Street ...

A liquid Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2011
... commodity markets while yields on Eurozone debt securities fell. And yes, this time, it's something you can write home to mother about... not the paltry half a percent moves of the past two days. I don't know what the opposite of the phrase "kicking ...

Half-filled empty glass

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
... markets are now seeing their empty glasses half-filled. From a broader perspective, there was not much to write home to mother about over Wall Street's minute increase last night... nor Europe's. Mother would just write back and say, "so what"? Movements ...

Lookin' for trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2011
My mother once - yes, only once - told me that if you go out looking for trouble, you're gonna find one. That's exactly what happened in the financial markets while we were sleeping. Not content with the troubles plaguing Europa, investors looked to ...

Rewarding wishful thinking

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2011
European financial markets are happy once more. And at this point in time, when Europe is happy everyone applauds. They're gleeful because there are reports out - again! - that their top moneymen are dangling another carrot, nay the hope for another ...