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The art of fighting without fighting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... Only 2 economists out of the 57 in Bloomberg's survey and just 2 - perhaps the same 2 - out of 72 economist polled by Reuters got it wrong. Think it's safe to say that these two economists (or four, in case they aren't the same two) expected the European ...

Better than good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
... Accelerates (Bloomberg) Emerging-Market Stocks Set for Longest Gain in 15 Months (Bloomberg) Commodities end quarter on a high (Reuters)... most have a rosy outlook on the financial market outlook it seems. Reports out last night revealed that manufacturing ...

This means war (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014
... Stocks Retreat, Treasuries Rally on Ukraine, China" (Bloomberg) "Increased Ukraine worries hit stocks, drive up yen" (Reuters) "Equities plunge on rising risks in Ukraine" (AFR) "Stocks slump as tension over Ukraine escalates" (AP) "European stocks slump ...

Reheating the cold war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
... China is now the second biggest economy in the world. And as Frederick Kempe's column - published nearly 2 years ago on Reuters - put it, "Putin has come to regard the U.S. with a mixture of dread and disdain. As he sees it, the United States engineered ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2014
... trillion (was worth around US$116 billion back then when a dollar was fetching A¥88.20). Second arrow. Can't go passed this Reuters report when the second arrow was fired on 4 April 2013, "The Bank of Japan unleashed the world's most intense burst of ...

It must have been love

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2014
... be inflated by fake trade transactions, where traders forge deals to sneak cash into the country past capital controls, Reuters reported when the trade numbers were released on the 12th. But by Valentine's Day, the tune was different. The 10.6% jump ...

I swear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2014
... night. Wall Street dropped. Oh sowee, they didn't drop, they "slumped" (Bloomberg), they "tumbled" (AFR), they "slid" (Reuters), they suffered their largest fall since June 2013 (paraphrased to the nth degree). The S&P 500 closed 2.3% down, the Dow ended ...

That evil word is back

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2013
... worries (WSJ); Wall St drops as Fed taper risk rises (AFR); Fear of stimulus taper hits global stocks; bonds, yen up (Reuters). I might need to prefix my surname again with the letters "W" and "R" for if the headlines are correct then call me WR-Ong. ...

Governor Carney is no monkey

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2013

'Tis the season to be bubbly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2013