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Waiting for the midnight hour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2012
It's now exactly one hour to midnight in Brussels as I write 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 ...

All Greeced out

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2012

Dam Aussie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012
Yippee ka yay! Nothing like a good dose of the good stuff to make one forget the bad, doesn't it? Nah, I'm not taking the "stuff" that I think you think I'm taking. I refer to the eco updates released out of America last night. They were all better ...

Insult me, insult you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2012
Arrrgh! Doesn't this unending Greco-German tragedy make you just wanna tear your hair - strand by strand - from its roots? Yes, you, yes, yes you, Virginia. For I still like to keep the very few ones remaining loyal to my scalp. And if not for its potential ...

Cheque's not yet in the mail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012
This Greek second bailout issue has become like that 'Pringles' ad - once you pop, you can't stop. Just when we thought that all was hunky-dory with regards to the Grecian circus, errr, crisis -- that the a,-130 billion bailout "hrimata" (money) was ...

The martyrdom of Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2012
Hero! Legend! Happy Valentine's Day Greece. I heart you Greece. There's no two ways about it, financial markets responded with a warm, fuzzy feeling (in their pockets) to the Greek Parliament's V-day present - approval of the latest austerity package ...

Bankruptcy could be bliss

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
"Don't go talking too loud, you'll cause a landslide, Mr. Jones." - The Bee Gees, New York Mining Disaster The optimism that warmed financial markets for the best part of the first six weeks of 2012 has been dented by the comeback of the European sovereign ...

Volatility is MIA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012
Whoops! Looks like I got one of my calls for the year wrong. And this is that high volatility would remain with us for most of 2012. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Volatility, instead, has gone MIA. Reports out last night should have provided the catalyst for ...

Enough of Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2012
There's a certain kind of hush all over the world overnight as financial markets turned their attention back to the Greeks and their seemingly never-ending negotiations with their benefactors - the IMF, the EU, the ECB... and private creditors. Ahhh ...

The majority is wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2012
"Baby what a big surprise Right before my very eyes" - Chicago Yesterday we became witnesses on how the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) disproved the saying that, "the majority is always right". It kept the country's official cash rate unchanged at ...