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What's luck got to do with it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2013

Waiting to catch up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2013

Santa Claus is comin' to town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2013

Good, bad: all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2013
For an itsy-bitsy while last week, I feared that the "good is good and bad is good" catchphrase on Wall Street has died and gone to catchphrase heaven. Good news on the US economy became ba-ba-bad to the bones Thursday last week. The S&P 500 index declined ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2013
Australian shares look set to open lower following falls on Wall Street where Twitter made its market debut. At 0857 AEDT on Friday, the December share price index futures contract was down 30 points at 5,399. Wall Street's falls came after data surprisingly ...

Trick or treat?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2013
We're back on the taper-go-round saddle Virginia. Would the Fed allow the green shoots of a December taper to grow roots - and again permeate to every nook and cranny of economics and finance -- and then treat us with a taper not as it did in September? ...

Taper trap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2013
"Don't fight the Fed!" I re-introduced this old saying on Wall Street at the end of last week to characterise the financial markets' behaviour du jour. The S&P 500 surely doesn't want to -- it closed at another fresh record high last week...and could ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2013
The Australian market looks set to open flat following falls on international markets overnight. At 0813 AEDT on Thursday, the December share price index futures contract was up four points at 5,350. In economic news on Thursday, Reserve Bank of Australia ...

Victim of success

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2013
Stronger, stronger, slowly getting stronger. Worldwide focus has been on the Fed and Washington over the past few months but that seems to have distracted some observers from seeing the positive developments across the Atlantic; though methinks Europe ...

QE infinity anybody?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013
We're back! Yes Virginia, the financial market world's returning to where they were before - I'd say before 22 May 2013. You know the one, the day Ben Bernanke testified before Congress and was asked if the Fed is "going to tighten by Labor Day?" The ...