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May go away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
Uh-oh, this is the last day for equity investors to decide whether or not to "sell in May and go away". An article Reuters published on 27 April reminded me so. In it, Reuters wrote, "Jeffrey Hirsch, publisher of the Stock Trader's Almanac, offers some ...

Much ado over a known known

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... large budget deficits and rising government indebtedness and the path to addressing these is not clear to us..." and gave our dear old Uncle until 2013 or face having its AAA-rating snipped. My, my, Standard & Poor's must be jumping with joy at the attention ...

Laissez faire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2011
... she could soon be the IMF's managing director. So why the French and the Beatles? The answer lies in two French words my dear lads and ladettes - "laissez faire" which is literally translated to the Beatles' "let it be". Economics 101 taught me that ...

Buying op

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2011
So is this the one that ultimately takes the grin off Wall Street's face? According to theage.com.au, " US stocks dropped on Tuesday on worries falling oil prices could set off a reversal in the high-flying energy sector..." It even quoted a certain ...

A friend like Ben

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2011
Blink and you would have missed it. Financial markets are back in forward gear once more. They have been over the past three trading days inspite of the severe calamities and geo-political tensions that came their way not even a full three months into ...

Buy a toaster

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2011
... out QE3. So is the investment environment now safe to get back into risk assets because tomorrow will be a better day? My dear, don't you think risk assets are called risk assets just for the heck of it? You get higher returns out of them (when they ...

Better and better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 FEB 2011
... sand. Despite the continued volatile situation in the country, Wall Street's performance overnight suggests that frankly, my dear, is doesn't give a damn (except of course, the Egyptians and oh, those nervously quivering autocrats in the region and elsewhere). ...

Downgrade me

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2011
... Parliament) recent approval of spending increases that's offsetting earlier targets to bring down the deficit this year. But poor dear old Japan, its "F" grading from the IMF followed Standard & Poor's downgrade of its long-term credit rating to AA- ...

Haste makes waste

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 JAN 2011
... I've seen this movie before. Most of you have too. It was shown on monitors near you at about this time last year. Yes, my dear Virginia, the film, "The Fed and other developed country central banks will start withdrawing policy - possibly as early as ...

CalPERS returns 12.5pc in 2010

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 21 JAN 2011
... crisis. "We repositioned our portfolio to take full advantage of the overall gains in the market last year," said Joseph Dear, CalPERS chief investment officer. "The strong returns we saw in 2010 prove that our comprehensive evaluation of all our investments ...