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May day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
Rising inflation. Sagging earnings. Sliding oil price. They were the culprits! They sucker punched Wall Street down to its knees while we were sleeping. No Virginia, not again. Don't tell me that just days after the "no one can deny" good news brought ...

Up, down or sideways

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
1.00,1.03,1.05,1.08,1.10,1.20 - no these are not random numbers. These are the numbers marking the Australian dollar's recorded fresh - and fresher - after-float highs against its big brother, the US dollar. The last time I wrote about the value of ...

Tightrope walker

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
China's economy is overheating that the People's Bank of China (PBOC) had been tightening monetary policy in order to keep inflation under control. The US economy is not growing fast enough - and measured inflation has, thus far, remained benign - that ...

Yesterday today tomorrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2011
... positive indication on the economic outlook signalled by the Institute of Supply manufacturing index also released yesterday. No sir, Bloomberg didn't want to spill more ink on it - what, and consume more oil? "The surge in energy prices overshadowed ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 FEB 2011
... Zealand sharemarket edged ahead on Friday and there was plenty for investors to digest with Telecom reporting earnings and Sir Ron Brierley's Guinness Peat Group (GPG) signalling its break up. The benchmark NZX-50 index closed up 1.574 points, or 0.047 ...

People powered

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 FEB 2011
Gone in 18 days! The New Year's fresh events risk that was Egypt has gone with the departure of the country's strongman. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak had been ultimately forced to abandon the throne his bum had been glued onto for 30 years by 18-days ...

USA is going A-OK

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 FEB 2011
"Until we see a sustained period of stronger job creation, we cannot consider the recovery to be truly established." These were the words spoken by Big Ben at the National Press Club in Washington last night. Oh yes, these very words came out of his ...

Year of the Bunny

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2011
... amount of the green stuff until the threat of deflation is no more and the labour market becomes whole again. And then there's Sir Obama doing his own bit - extending his predecessor's tax cuts, reducing payroll taxes and extending unemployment benefits. ...

Best house in the slums

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 DEC 2010
Poor little rich kid. If you look at the performance of the Australian stock market since the start of the year and nothing else, you would be forgiven for concluding that the economy downunder is not enjoying the cheer of this yuletide season, no siree. ...

60 Minutes deception

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 DEC 2010
"Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!" This quotation from Sir Walter Scott first made its way into my psyche during the global financial crisis. I don't think I need to explain the mammoth deception that went on that gave ...