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The pain in Spain does not fall mainly on the plain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
... budget. The Ibex-35 plunged by 3.92% and 10-year government bond yields climbed back up to 6.06% -- the first time since Super Mario announced OMTs last 6 September. But while the threat of Catalonia's secession might be just that - Spain's Constitution ...

Big Ben brings in the heavy guns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012
... reached way back on 9 October 2007. Gold and silver and oil rose. So did US Treasuries. All because Big Ben did a Super Mario - not only in the QE sense but also in assuring the world that he'll do "whatever it takes", in his case, until there is "broad-based ...

Time to stop the rot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2012
... Coal and BHP are reportedly sacking 600 and 300, respectively. Times like these, we again need all hands on deck. Super Mario has done it, PM Wen is doing it, Pres Lee's onto it, PM Noda's about to do it, our dear Glen might do more. Your turn Big Be ...

Ben's turn to be super

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2012
... find out whether or not dear Uncle Ben would be donning a cape and wearing his underwear outside his pants and do a Super Mario. Most financial marketeers were convinced he talked about it last month at Jackson Hole, will he now walk his talk -- ala ...

Super Mario to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012
... it is a fully effective backstop for removing the tail risk of Europe." With these words, European Central Bank President Mario Draghi put a stop to months of speculation, hearsays and guesswork. Mario announced an open-ended bond buying programme which ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012
... crisis. At 0813 AEST on Friday, the September share price index futures contract was up 52 points at 4,369. Under ECB chief Mario Draghi's revamped program, the central bank will buy bonds issued by heavily indebted euro-zone countries in a scheme named ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2012
... 13 points at 4,295. The European Central Bank is due to meeting on Thursday (European time), with all eyes on president Mario Draghi for new measures to fight the region's stubborn debt crisis. In local economic news on Thursday, The Australian Bureau ...

Put up or shut up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012
... already -- and ease up on the promises and pledges while you're at it. No, I speak not to you Virginia, but it is to Ben and Mario I direct my displeasure. I've been watching the markets for decades - been caught up in the 1987 Crash, bought bargains ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012
... 3399.04 points. Shares in debt crisis flashpoints, which had risen all day lifted by recent comments from ECB president Mario Draghi, pared gains by close with Madrid stocks up 0.73 per cent and Milan down 0.29 per cent. The euro fell to $US1.2562, compared ...

It's still the hole, stups

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2012