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BOJ brings out big bazooka

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2013
You call that QE? This is QE! Haruhiko Kuroda san's debut at the helm of the Bank of Japan (BOJ) shocked and awed financial markets for he delivered much more than even the most optimistic had been expecting. Yes Virginia, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) has ...

Kim playing Duke Nukem is the bigger worry

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2013
Oh-em-gee! That slowly revving engine of the world economy is running out of puff. Woe is us, we're in trouble now. Wall Street's down big time - the Dow's down by 0.8% and the S&P 500 slid by 1.1% -- along with Europe (Euro Stoxx 50 off 1.5% at the ...

All eyes and ears on Japan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2013

First quarter (w)innings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2013
It's quite fitting that we concluded the first three months of the year 2013 munching on egg-shaped chocolates - big and small - for if the first quarter is anything to go by, financial markets could look forward to more kinder surprises for the rest ...

Cypriot banks to re-open sans banking

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013
"You can check-out any time you like, But you can never leave!" - Hotel California (Eagles) Tonight at exactly 2100 hours (9pm) Aussie time, banks all over Cyprus will re-open and from what I read, it's not like Hotel California. You cannot check out ...

I was there!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
Get behind me Satan! I was ever so tempted to simply regurgitate the financial headlines and commentaries and blogs that went blinkety-blink on my screen this morning. It would have made my day a bit easier. The headlines differed yes...but at the same ...

Template of a bail-in?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2013
You gotta give it to the Europeans, they sure know how to shoot themselves in the foot. Financial markets celebrated after reports that a deal had been struck between the government of Cyprus and its benefactors. Nobody gave two hoots whether it's a ...

Treasuries - safe but not so rewarding

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2013
This was to be the year of the Great Rotation. The period when the bond market waves the white flag and give up the fight for investor dollars to the market for equities. That's until Cyprus. It has to come up with a,-5.8 billion (by taxing bank deposits ...

Falling BRICs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013
Now wasn't that just classic entertainment? I doubt that even the best of the best comedic minds could come up with a farce such as the one the Australian Labor Party delivered for our viewing, hearing and reading pleasure yesterday. For after all the ...

Ben's your uncle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2013
Fed promise soothes Cyprus worries. These five words sum up the financial markets' performance while we slept. Good thing the US Federal Reserve's monthly FOMC meeting came when it did -- right in the midst of another bout of European contagion speculation. ...