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Waiting for the midnight hour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2012
... this and so far all we have is wishing and hoping and praying that all those seated around the negotiating table Yes Virginia, there's still no news out on whether the EU finmins did or didn't - agree to give Greece a new lease on life, that is. But ...

Bankruptcy could be bliss

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
... investors ran for cover back into US Treasuries, taking the 10-year yield back below 2.0% at the end of last week. Yes Virginia, Europe is talking too loudly again. Greece, the beggar that it has become, has already agreed to its creditors' fresh demands ...

Waiting for the RBA to dance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2012
... of inflation slowed to 2.2% in December from 2.4% in the previous month. Core inflation remained at an easy 2.2%. Yes Virginia, the key has been wound, and perhaps, the RBA doesn't want to disappoint the markets eagerly waiting for it to dance. Perhaps. ...

Happy days

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2012
It was another day on the financial markets, another one of those happy days. Yes Virginia, commodity markets are up, equity markets are up - even for those recently credit rating snipped Eurozone bourses - and bond yields are lower - even for those ...

2011: hits and misses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011
... indications are that financial markets are in for another period of increased volatility in this, the year twenty eleven. Yes Virginia, brace for more hops, skips and falls - quite fitting that twenty eleven is also the "Year of the Rabbit" - as both ...

Tell someone who cares

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2011
... policies. There's Fraulein Merkel expected to insist on "anything" but an expanded role for the European Central Bank. Yes Virginia. There were the same issues which only weeks before created angst and anxiety from New York to Rio and old London town. ...

Half-filled empty glass

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
"It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, everywhere you go." Oh yes Virginia, happy days have come back. Wall Street's up, Europe's up, Asia and Australia are up and up. Scan through the headlines and you get the impression that though all remains ...

Fixville here we come

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011
... Wall Street the S&P 500 jumped by 3.4% as reports swirled on cyberspace that the Europeans have agreed to agree. Yes Virginia, they did it. In the words of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, "We Europeans showed tonight that we reached the right conclusions." ...

Somethin' good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2011
Quiet please, EU meeting in progress. Yes Virginia, they're still at it. Two years on and Europe's back at the negotiating table trying to dig their way out of the hole first dug by Greece in October 2009. One begins to wonder how they were able consummate ...

Good news, bad headline

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 OCT 2011
... eyes and not Reuters' "China economic growth eases to 9.1 percent" - it might be a lame headline, but it is factual. Yes Virginia, that is the fact. China's economy expanded by 9.1% in the third quarter - less than consensus forecasts for a 9.3% year-on-year ...