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G-20 goes for growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2014
The week that was looked exactly like the week before that was. Yes Virginia, financial market sentiment remains upbeat for what is good is good and what is bad, what is disappointing, what is negative is "likely affected by the weather". Blame the ...

Excuses, excuses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2014
... say that the markets what they want to see and hear what they want to hear... and if they don't, they make excuses. Yes Virginia, excuses, excuses. It's the weather. Of course, there would have been a lot more Americans working had the deep freeze not ...

Waiting for jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2014
... butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker are all sitting tight is because it's coming... very soon... this Friday. Yes Virginia, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is set to release the mother of all eco stats - the US Private Non-farm Payrolls ...

Mmm bargains, hmm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2014
... pounce. I could stop right here, thank you very much but, alas, I have a number of words quota to fill so here we go. Yes Virginia, Wall Street clawed back some of the previous day's losses - the S&P 500 up 0.8%; the Dow up 0.5% and the Nasdaq up 0.9% ...

Rational exuberance?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013
... of another round of global monetary easing". Hip, hip... Mo' money for you and for me and the entire human race. Yes Virginia, be happy for even 'the maestro' (Alan Greenspan) has reappeared on Bloomberg Television go forth and buy. "In a sense, we are ...

QE infinity anybody?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013
We're back! Yes Virginia, the financial market world's returning to where they were before - I'd say before 22 May 2013. You know the one, the day Ben Bernanke testified before Congress and was asked if the Fed is "going to tighten by Labor Day?" The ...

While America was shuttered

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
... stays on target. It's the mini-stimulus - tax cuts and spending on rail infrastructure -- that did it this time. Yes Virginia, communist China is the real Keynesian. In Europe, if not for the political comedy in Washington, we would be watching the one ...

Calendar says buy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013
They did it again! Yes Virginia, Washington did what most Tom, Dick and Harriet expected it would do. It reached a compromise deal at the 11th hour. Wall Street's happy, especially those who stayed the course and saw through the political shenanigans ...

Last minute deal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 OCT 2013
Stop the clock! A deal has been forged in Washington! Yes Virginia, it again played out as scripted - after so much grandstanding, with both sides holding their ground and a lotta hullabaloos...an agreement was struck...at the last minute. Were it not ...

Bears out a-haunting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013
Shutdown: Day 8 and counting and... 9 days to go before the US debt hit the ceiling. Yes Virginia, those adult politicos in Washington are still at it...playing their game of chickens. Both sides are waiting for the other to blink. You know what happens ...