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Turkeys, PIGS and Koreans

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2010
While investors had no recourse but to leave Americans at peace to bite heartily into their Thanksgiving turkeys - markets were closed - many were still shooting down European PIGS at the same time that Koreans were shooting down each other. After sending ...

What ifs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
... their mortgage... give everyone $1 million." As for jobs. The October private non-farm payrolls report showed employed Americans earned US$779.64 weekly. This translates to a total wage bill of US$40,541.28 a year. You know how many workers could be ...

Lookin' good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 NOV 2010
... climbed 17 percent" in the year to October. Now how could the Uncle Sam collect more tax revenues from taxpayers if Americans are really in such a bad state as some pundits claim? The answer is they're not. And their lot is improving.

Healing US, crouching Europe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 NOV 2010
... eight months. Good. Yes, good. That takes care of America's problem with the threat of deflation and the millions of Americans who are still looking for jobs. Maybe... The US$600 billion QE2 package has lifted commodity prices and is now raising inflation ...

Amigos para siempre

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
... force China to kowtow to its demands, here's Schaeuble's take on US foreign exchange policy. " It's not right when the Americans accuse China of manipulating exchange rates and then push the dollar exchange rate lower by opening up the flood gates by ...

Punting on next week

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2010
... October - more than market expectations for a 49.9 print - from 48.6 in the previous month. Good yes. But not good enough. Americans remained anxious about their jobs and worried about their income, the details of the report showed. But seemingly nobody ...

Money, money, money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2010

Fortune cookie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2010
... the increased spending was mainly on essentials (and higher petrol prices) and less on discretionary spending. Worse, Americans were only enticed to spend because of, according to Bloomberg, "Bigger back-to-school discounts, an increase in the number ...

Good jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 SEP 2010
... rate ticked up to 9.6 per cent in August from 9.5 per cent in July. This is another piece of good news indicating that Americans are coming out of the woodwork, confident that it is no longer futile looking for a job. They're now seeing the light. And ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 AUG 2010
... figures had dragged the local market lower on Friday. But Wall Street had overreacted to the news, he said. "I think the Americans have overdone it... on the basis of those labour market figures," he said. "To make it comparable in Australian terms ...