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PIG now officially PIGS

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2012
... them who thought they were clever by half. The again, they would have looked like heroes had the markets went their way. But nah, nope, no siree as markets began searching for the meat in the 'no more pain in Spain' headlines and found that there's none ...

It's all in the spin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2012
... said. In addition, France today sold 2.52 billion euros in inflation-linked securities maturing in July 2018." Now go figure. Nah, we don't have to. Reuters has already figured it out for us. Its survey of 29 economists showed that the majority don't ...

All that jazz

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2012
Bernanke, houses and confidence (or the lack of it) sent many on Wall Street clicking on the sell button last night. It was them! They were the ones that sent a many on Wall Street clicking on the sell button last night. It was Bernanke. In an interview ...

Better and better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2012
... trying to rationalise what's just plain noise. And if there had been a reasons to sell yesterday, there's even more today. But nah, financial presses couldn't use them today - not with the equity markets behaving the way they did last night. No way ...

KRudd comeback biting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 FEB 2012
... building permits, homebuilder sentiment and housing starts - that we've previously seen. You can't bone me, I quit! - KRudd Nah, not these words exactly. Maybe in an unguarded moment, but you wouldn't expect Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs (now ...

Waiting for the midnight hour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2012
... gonna get some excitement for almost each month of 2012. One more check before I wrap this up. Nine minutes to midnight and nah, still nothing. News just in. Surprise of surprises, Euro-area finance ministers reached agreement on a second bailout package ...

Dam Aussie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012
Yippee ka yay! Nothing like a good dose of the good stuff to make one forget the bad, doesn't it? Nah, I'm not taking the "stuff" that I think you think I'm taking. I refer to the eco updates released out of America last night. They were all better ...

Volatility is MIA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012
... among investors - more than double the plus 0.59% and minus 0.68 average daily gyrations in the first semester of 2011. But nah, like a slap on my face the S&P 500 index, for instance, gyrated only between down 0.4% and up 0.32% before closing 0.15% ...

Plan 5 and counting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 DEC 2011
It was the summit touted as the one to end all summits. But nah! As Daryll Kerrigan in the "The Castle" would say, "tell him he's dreaming". Five Plans done, "n" to go. Last weekend's European Summit produced something - well, sort of - and the equity ...

Lookin' for trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2011
... seven to eight months is consistent with stable house prices. This paints another picture of a stabilising housing market. But nah, we want trouble. We want trouble. We want trouble. There's already plenty in Europe. Spanish bond yields continued to ...