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QE going, going ...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012
... and sulk now for we might not see Ben's green stuff minting machine back ever again - in this current cycle, at least. No sir. Especially not after last night's reports further underlined the strengthening momentum in the US economy. ADP Employer Services ...

No QE, not bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2012
Guess we're no longer BFF (best friends forever) with Ben. No sir, not after he quashed everyone's hopes that QE the third is about to sail. How could you do this to us BFF? It's all over the headlines: "U.S. Stocks Fall as Fed Minutes Damp Stimulus ...

When optimism rains, it pours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2012
... challenges, more pain, more money to be lost because the global economic outlook was not conducive to making mo' money. No sir! Better stuff your savings under the bed. Greece will default - Portugal, Spain and Italy, maybe. The Eurozone economy will ...

No more fear - maybe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2012
Seventy-one (71) Julia. Thirty-one (31) KRudd. Surprised? No. Embarrassingly entertaining? Very. But now that Team Labor has chosen, it's time to put the farce (whoops, Freudian slip), the past behind and get on with the business of governing. Yeah ...

All Greeced out

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2012

Bankruptcy could be bliss

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
"Don't go talking too loud, you'll cause a landslide, Mr. Jones." - The Bee Gees, New York Mining Disaster The optimism that warmed financial markets for the best part of the first six weeks of 2012 has been dented by the comeback of the European sovereign ...

Plan 5 and counting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 DEC 2011
... was now safe. His reply: "I'm not sure." He's not, but chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey is. Sir, yes sir! "The euro zone is at great risk... We are extraordinarily concerned by the health and viability of the euro because ...

Tell someone who cares

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2011
Tell someone who cares! There were reports out while we slept that could have been blamed for the equity markets returning some of the gains made during yesterday's rally but somehow they didn't have the same spook they had even only a week ago. There ...

Nothing new

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011
It's Thanksgiving Day in the USA. This means it's a trading holiday in the USA. This means that us, in the Asian time zone, would have to do make do without a GPS today. This means that we'll be running around like headless turkeys. And it doesn't help ...

Another lonely night

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2011
... Last night's auction of a,-6bil German 10-year bonds attracted bids amounting to only to a,-3.9 bil at a yield of 1.98%. Yes sir, they sold only 65% of the total they wanted. The wish, hope, prayer here is that the Germans might ease their recalcitrance ...