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Back to cactus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2011
Hang on to your hats, for here we go folks. While the previous day's data releases provided some leeway for positive interpretation, fresh ones out overnight cannot - in any way - be lost in translation. It's therefore not surprising to see Wall Street ...

All good but for the dollar A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2011
The global community was not in the least perturbed by the release of Australia's National Accounts that showed real GDP fell by 1.2 per cent in the March quarter. Not even the fact that the economic slump in the first three months of 2011 was bigger ...

Rejoice for May has gone away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2011
A funny thing happened on the way to the financial markets last night. There were no significant changes to the landscape - but one could sense the smile on investors' faces if one cared to look. It's risk on one more time Virginia. Wall Street's up ...

Judgment Day bargains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2011
By the looks of it all, Harold Camping - the real prophet of doom - stood a better chance predicting a stock market crash this week than "Judgement Day" at 6PM (US time) on 21 May 2011. But you would have done well by your investments if you believed ...

Financial services targeted for data theft

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
The financial services industry is being targeted for data theft, one of the world's foremost experts on hack attacks said today. Tal Be'ery, web research team leader from US-based data protection firm Imperva, said the cyber criminals were following ...

May the Fed be with you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
On the last trading day of April, I opened my daily piece with: "... this is investors' last day to decide whether or not to "sell in May and go away"." And concluded that, "... it might be prudent to bag some of those profits and go away in May. Just ...

May go away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
Uh-oh, this is the last day for equity investors to decide whether or not to "sell in May and go away". An article Reuters published on 27 April reminded me so. In it, Reuters wrote, "Jeffrey Hirsch, publisher of the Stock Trader's Almanac, offers some ...

Poor standard

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011
Hey, what just happened? Isn't the US at risk losing its AAA credit rating... or not? It's only been two days since Standard & Poor's issued that grim warning and now, look ma, Wall Street's back and with a vengeance. Please pardon my gloating but I ...

Much ado over a known known

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
Is this the start of something big... or another dip buying op? Wall Street retreated big time last night. The S&P 500, the Dow and the Nasdaq all closed 1.1 per cent leaner. Is it perhaps investors want to gain a head start on that good 'ol adage ...

All up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2011
True to form, the dip buyers came a-buying yesterday's dip. But there's something strange - really, really strange about last night's financial market action on Wall Street. The US stock market is up a little overnight because oil prices rebounded. ...