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Death by algorithm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
... positive - even in Europe - with most economic indicators showing steady improvement. The major risk remains the threat of contagion by Greece's sovereign debt crisis. But this might be resolved through concerted action by the G-20 and/or quantitative ...

Global Sovereign Crisis

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2010
... know it. It's now become a case of the governments having saved the banks, but who will save the governments? Brace for contagion. International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn was quoted in Le Parisien saying that, "There is always ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2010
... Japanese markets were closed for a public holiday. HONG KONG - Hong Kong shares closed lower on Wednesday due to fears of contagion from the Greek debt crisis as well as China's moves to cap lending on the mainland. The benchmark Hang Seng Index closed ...

Sell in May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2010
... market suffers, commodity markets suffer (oops there goes Kevin Rudd's 40 per cent Resources Super Profits Tax), then contagion... then everybody suffers. GFC mark II is born. It's so easy to extrapolate isn't it? Just as I warned in GFC mark I be careful ...

Contagion has already happened

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2010
... in the firing line last night -- its ratings slashed to AA from AA+. Again, I ask who's next? So where's this fear of contagion that has dominated the headlines only yesterday? Shouldn't anxiety levels be higher now that a bigger Eurozone member had ...

Knee-jerk reaction to late action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2010
... relative to GDP in 2009 compared with 2008, and two (Estonia and Malta) recording an improvement." If you're scared about contagion to the rest of the Eurozone now, you should have been spooked last week when these stats were released -- and not waited ...

How high and how long

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
... per cent - 125 bps more than the 3.0 per cent when the RBA brought the economy into the "emergency" ward to fend off contagion from the GFC. Financial markets were almost evenly split as to whether the RBA would or wouldn't leading up to yesterday's ...

Fitch scare

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2010
... factored in grim news for Portugal...and Spain...and Italy...and...? There's really nothing new in this whole Eurozone contagion tragedy, except perhaps get a few hearts to miss a beat. Like my stance on Greece, the European Union would not let Portugal ...

When the time comes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2010
... mattered much - it could be swallowed up by the Mediterranean and no one would blink an eye - but for the threat of contagion first to the rest of Europe and then the world. This is why while financial markets wait for the outcome of the European Union's ...

Positive contagion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
... higher demand for coal, transport equipment and construction materials for housing. There now seems to be a positive contagion on the way. Now for the "well, maybe". Politics and politicking are now threatening to undermine the successes achieved to ...