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The QE Paradox

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012
Indecisions, indecisions... Is this the sound of silence I hear? Investors appear to have stopped on their tracks, unsure of whether the next move would be a jump or a dive. But with momentum blowing on their tail, chances are the uptrend that started ...

Lucky in so many ways

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2012
... just one day's movement, people! Those who insist on doing this might as well head to their nearest casinos and try their luck there. And why follow Wall Street's or Europe's lead? Why? Why? Why? Australia is in a league of its own. Just ask the RBA ...

Food is the new Europe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2012
Uh-oh, looks like the EU has not kicked that pestering debt crisis can far enough down the road. Wasn't it only a few days ago (last Friday) that they approved Spain's a,-100 billion bail? And not even a month has passed since their announcement of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Good one day, no good the next

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012
"U.S. stocks fell, snapping a two-day rally in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index, after jobless-claims data fueled concern over the economy..." (Bloomberg) Ah, so grasshoppuh, America is good one day, no good the next. No sensei, just another dose of ...

Down and out in May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012
... save for the diehard bulls - and perhaps, Warren (of the "be greedy when others are fearful" fame), best forgotten. Just our luck 'ey Virginia, the euro tragedy did a replay last month, giving more meat to that age-old adage on Wall Street to "sell in ...

Bumps along the way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2012
US Payrolls. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Yes Virginia, the greatly speculated, the much awaited, the indicator that'll set the tone in the financial markets over the next four weeks, that mother of all eco stats -- the US Non-farm Payrolls ...

Wow on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2012
If there's something strange in your neighbourhood, who ya gonna call? Ben Bernanke! It was a wow day on Wall Street overnight as our friend Ben reinforced this Ben's view that it would be a win-win for equity markets, no matter how the Fed see its ...

Can't lose

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2012
Uh-oh. Here's looking at you kid, and kid you're not looking good. A weaker-than-expected US non-farm payrolls report released during the Easter break punctuated a week of not so good news for the equity markets, re-igniting the uncertainty over America's ...