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Much ado, no do

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012
Move on people, get going, nothing to see here. Wall Street went home happy last night despite Uncle Ben's much-anticipated semi-annual testimony before the US Senate's Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs being a non-event - a maintenance ...

Lost

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2012
"I'm in a place where I don't know where I am!" -Homer Simpson I have to give it to Homer. He cut to the chase and burped out what every economist and financial market expert are afraid to admit these days - that we simply don't know. Ergo (sounds sophisticated ...

Wen's visible hand

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2012
Where are they now? Those hard landing-ers? Wall Streets and European equities jumped 1.7% and 1.4%, respectively - on the final day of last week's trading as markets welcomed news that China's economy slowed "as expected" to 7.6% in the year to the ...

Perfect timing for a "perfect storm" alert

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
The bulls - already dwindling in numbers by the day - must now be starting to find religion as the only means of delivering them from eternal damnation - in the financial sense, of course. For this time, Virginia, the sky does really look like it's ...

Liars' Club

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2012
"Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue." - Billy Joel, Honesty "There won't be a GST under the government I lead" promised Johnny Howard before being elected prime minister of Australia. "There won't be a carbon tax in a government I ...

Uncertainly good or bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2012
There is the good news. The EU finally came through and is about to implement its first set of "breakthroughs" agreed upon at last month's summit. Eurozone finance ministers shook hands on the a,-100 billion aid promised to Spain, with an initial downpayment ...

It's more fun in the Philippines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2012
Ho-ho-hum. Been there, done that times n. Another day, another week, another month, another quarter and still financial markets continue to dance to the same old songs. They rise and fall depending on the headline of the day - though it seems to me ...

Not ugly enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
We're in trouble now... big trouble. That's the ugly picture painted by the latest US non-farm payrolls report and Wall Street's reaction to it. The S&P 500 fell by 0.94%, the Dow by 0.96% and the Nasdaq by 1.30% the day the US Labor Department released ...

Two cuts and a top up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2012

Waiting on the world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2012
Waiting. Waiting, waiting, waiting and waiting, waiting. Don't' you just hate it? Over the past month or so, this seems to be all that financial markets have been doing - waiting for the result of the French and Greek elections, waiting for Greece's ...