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Much ado, no do

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012
... improvement in labor market conditions in a context of price stability." How many times have we read/heard this before? Our dear Uncle said so much, yet conveyed nothing new. Perhaps, this is just the way he liked it - to leave it to all of us to interpret ...

Aberdeen fixed income manager resigns

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
Stuart Dear has resigned from his senior fixed income portfolio manager role at Aberdeen Asset Management and will be leaving the firm in approximately two weeks. Dear has been at the firm for 14 years and during that time his focus has been on interest ...

Not ugly enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
... June from 8.1% in April. So here we go again folks -- another reason to keep our heads down... or an added incentive for dear Uncle Ben to start blabbing about QE. Financial markets are certainly hoping so, else they would have dropped by more. But not ...

Fed twists again like it did last summer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2012
... and risks associated with it" which could make exiting them more complicated and could disrupt market functioning. Besides, dear Uncle Ben confessed that he's having difficulty reading the US labour market and the challenge posed by the European crisis ...

QE hope - must be getting tough again?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2012
Ho-hum. Some may find riding the current stock market see-saw exciting but I'm beginning to get bored. Certainly what we're going through right here, right now is the stuff histories are made of, but there's only so much a man can take - especially ...

Pop goes the QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012
Party pooper. Spoilsport. Booo! One can almost taste - yes, taste - the financial markets' disappointment when dear Uncle Ben came and spoke with not even a hint that those beloved letters Q and E are in the offing. Not even a wink, wink, nudge, nudge. ...

Instant replay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2012
... 72.3 from 69.8 in March. And if for some reason, things again turn pear-shaped, we know whom to call. Yes, it's him, our dear old friend Ben who's watching the economy like a hawk and ever on the ready to print should unemployment deteriorate or inflation ...

Risk-averse investor pitfalls

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2012
Capital risk is being ignored in favour of investor preference for risk-averse bank deposits, according to Equity Trustees. Shaun Manuell, head of asset management at Equity Trustees Limited, said the dangers of capital risk are not being expressed ...

Insult me, insult you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2012
... ones remaining loyal to my scalp. And if not for its potential disastrous consequences on my superannuation, frankly, my dear, I wouldn't give a damn. There's a new twist in the tale of this ever so twisted Greek saga. In less than a week, financial ...

Chinalising Europe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2011
... policymaker and Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann. Finally, where would the euro crisis be without a statement from our dear Angela. She was at it again last night - repeating Germany's stance against issuing euro bonds and warning that "there are no ...