Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 191 - 200 of 235 results for "Yes Virginia"

Sounds like a plan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2011
... about the weekend meeting in Paris of the Group of 20 biggest and most powerful moneymen in the world, of course. Yes Virginia, we were kept in suspense this past weekend to be told that, they have a plan for a plan. The good news - there are now greater ...

Ben calls on JMK

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2011
... any meaningful reversal - up or down - happens in the markets. Weeks became days - and days turned into intra-days. Yes Virginia, you saw it last night. But what can you expect when financial markets are trading on every letter that's printed on cyberpages ...

VIX says no fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2011
We were just full of it yesterday, weren't we? Yes Virginia, we were filled with the words fear, anxiety, panic, doom and all else in between that spells M-E-L-T-D-O-W-N. We were so full of it that at one point, I thought it was already October - you ...

Can't hear you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
There's more negative news out overnight. What? There's more bad news out overnight. What? Can't hear you. Yes Virginia, if you're looking for reasons to sell there were big numbers out last night that on other days scream SELL! But Wall Street would ...

Just replace because with despite

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2011
Now you see? Investors really do see what they want to see. Oh yes Virginia, the drip, drip, drip of economic reports and other news twittered, facebooked and blogged all over cyberspace were enough to send any bear to bear utopia - but they didn't. ...

A-dollar one-point-seven-o

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
Destination: Highway one point seven zero. Yes Virginia, this is what the current euphoria on the Australian dollar has led to - the currency is now extrapolated to reach 1.70 against the US dollar by 2014. According to The Australian newspaper, not ...

Fed money drives black swans away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
... uncertainty, if you believe the scaremongers there's another one looming and its name is ' US government shutdown'. Yes Virginia, the Democrats and the GOP are currently scrambling in Washington to forge a compromise on government budget cuts else the ...

The other emerging market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2011
... and their money - particularly when set against the backdrop of what is, at best, slow growing developed economies. Yes Virginia, bring up the subject of emerging markets and in all probability you'll be hearing discussions China... or India... or the ...

JMK rules

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
... markets' reaction to the current events that normally would sap optimism out of any rational human investor. Inured? Yes Virginia, you're well aware of all the troubles that have come our way since the year 2011 started. But instead of a rout, developed ...

Year of the Bunny

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 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 ...