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Bears cursed by September curse

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2009
... signals such as these would continue for a few months more. What is encouraging is that governments and central banks would not let up until the negatives in the mix all turn positive. The bears were the ones cursed in September.

Herding 20 cats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2009
Herding cats. There was not much movement on Wall Street overnight so let's just talk about herding cats today. Wall Street dipped ever so slightly as - despite what the headlines say - there weren't any fresh news to steer direction. It was the same ...

Vote of confidence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2009
... more...etcetera. For sure, Australian interest rates expectations have not changed from since Mr. Stevens opened his mouth yesterday. But let's see what happens to today's domestic stock market trading given the strong performance on Wall Street overnight. ...

The long and short of bulls and bears

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2009
Yesterday, I engaged in ping-pong with three of the fresh thinkers in the investment industry. Email ping-pong, that is. Discussions of Stella (the beer), cognacs and cigars aside, D.R. Beare - not his real name - opened serve with an email bagging ...

Undue credit (ratings)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2009
When is a triple A rating not AAA? When the credit rating agencies say it is - in our case, Moody's. But first, a very big yawn with a matching upward stretch of both arms! I am talking about the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, of course. ...

Yin to market yang

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2009
... and stockmarket growth over the long term. "You might even call it the anti-Greenspan doctrine. The Greenspan doctrine was 'let the bubble go up and when it bursts, we'll clean up the mess.' But hey, what a mess they're cleaning up now." That's why Power ...

Playing chicken with tyres

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2009
Don't look now but the debate as to what letter of the alphabet the global recovery will take - U, V or W - could all turn out to be wrong. It could be an L with the horizontal part of the letter longer and downward sloping. Trust politicians to try ...

Packer cuts Challenger ties

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2009
Consolidated Press Holdings has sold its 21 per cent stake in Challenger - ending an 11 year relationship between the Packer family and the Challenger group. James Packer offloaded his shares last Friday, prompting a large jump in Challenger's share ...

G-20 reasons to be hopeful

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2009
... of 2.5 per cent. Congratulations! You're getting there, Mr. Treasurer! You too, Mr. Central Banker! So what do we do now? Let's just tell our minions that while we see the light at the end of the tunnel, "we still face significant challenges ahead." ...

Fudge this

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2009
They're not the kind of words you'd normally see in an internal email, let alone a listed company's announcement to shareholders - a New Zealand company is under fire to explain why the words "fudge this" appeared in its corporate accounts. Market regulators ...