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Good newer news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2010
Out with the old (news), in with the less older. Yes Virginia, this is the way that economic data are tumbling these days. But overall, they confirm the weakness of the ancient second quarter economy, an improvement in the current one and perhaps even ...

New-found optimism

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2010
... that if it's not going up, it must be headed down. Negative data are magnified... positive ones are spun negatively. Yes Virginia, in this day and age of instant everything, investors and speculators want instant gains too. They want their profits in ...

Stimulate and die

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2010
... financial markets' two-day love-in with Big Ben Bernanke appears to be indicating -- loved one day, ignored the next. Yes Virginia, although there's nothing new between his comments he made at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars the ...

Nein to naked shorts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2010
... political independence is now being questioned. So what's a German to do to defend its new currency? Regulate on its own. Yes Virginia, we're back to 2008. Naked short selling will be banned in Germany when their clocks strike midnight tonight -- and ...

Euro downs Supermodel

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2010
... Dictionary.com defines this as "a person who dislikes Europe, its culture, and Europeans," to which we may now add, the euro. Yes Virginia, it seems most of us are turning Europhobes now. Greece gave euros a bad smell and now financial markets are dumping ...

Global Sovereign Crisis

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2010
... other Eurozone countries. And we're all getting caught in the crossfire. Is that doom and gloom I smell in the air? Yes Virginia, we're back to prophesising our own demise. This time it's the Global Sovereign Crisis (GSC) that threatens the world as ...

Too much ado about Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2010
... economy. I apologise for my digression, just had to vent my spleen on the ciggie tax. Now back to Wall Street. And yes Virginia, those who succumbed to the sensationalisation that was Greece, and Portugal, and Spain, and... are still kicking themselves. ...

The retaking of Dow 11000

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2010
Here we go, here we go, here we go-o! The Dow has retaken the 11K ground anew! Dow 36,000 here we come! Yes Virginia, by virtue of a miniscule 0.1 per cent gain overnight, the Dow has once again crossed beyond that ever-elusive 11,000 milestone to close ...

End game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2010
America is zeroing in on China's weapon of mass destruction - the "overvalued renminbi". Yes Virginia, the US is drawing up battle plans as I write. According to Bloomberg, "Five senators including Charles Schumer of New York and Lindsey Graham of South ...

Positive spin to bad news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2010
Analyse this! US home sales tumble big time as Wall Street rises. Yes Virginia, the past two days of trading activity on The Street exemplifies the equity market's wild and wacky psychology -- that's if you're watching the daily ups and downs. Yesterday ...