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On the verge

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011
The storm after the calm. Just when we thought financial markets have shaken off the high anxiety of the past week, teeth gnashing returns. Blood's again been spilled on the trading dance floors of commodity markets and most major equity markets around ...

Nothing happened

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2011
There's some peace and quiet around financial markets overnight. There was no news convincing enough to direct investor traffic one way or another. But the blogomentaries on Wall Street this morning has got my goose. You don't have to go pass Bloomberg's ...

A penny saved could spark a recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011
... hammer into our thick skulls the virtue of "saving for a rainy day" ? But isn't 'now' that rainy day? That other Ben - Benjamin Franklin - immortalised the adage that, "A penny saved, is a penny earned." But a penny saved, is also a penny not spent. ...

In a better place

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2011
Ahhh, finally some peace. Given Wall Street's straight gains over these past three trading days, many could be forgiven for wondering what just happened last week. Fear now, search for explanations later - that's what happened last week. For despite ...

Lost GPS

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2011
And so here we are ladies and gents. Very much unsure of where financial markets are gonna go. In times like these, it becomes so easy to get swept up by the mood of the mob. Someone shouts "sell" and everybody rush to the exits - never mind why, we ...

Digit says recession averted

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
Crash on rumours one day, rally on flimsy excuse the next. That's Wall Street for you these days - or more accurately, the past two days. After rallying on the Fed's announcement that it will keep the fed funds rate at between 0-0.25% till the middle ...

Greed is good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
"I started a joke, which started the whole world crying..." -Bee Gees Just when the Fed appeared to have quieted things down, someone screamed, 'boo'. And in the current jittery state the financial markets are in - investors will shoot first and ask ...

Fed move checks markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011
When the going gets tough, the Fed gets going. Ok, ok. I was wrong - no need to throw it back at my face. I expected the US Federal Reserve to provide a circuit breaker in the form of a third QE. I was wrong! Big Ben did this small Ben one better. B-I-N-G-O! ...

Goodbye or good buy?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
Time to say good buy or goodbye? Is this the best of times or is this the worst of times? The dreaded DD (double-dip) is back on the headlines. So is the R (recession). And with them comes Armageddon. I think Armageddon is most fitting in this case ...

USA no longer AAA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
Uh-oh, we're in trouble now - really big trouble -- or so they say. No use pretending not to know what I'm talking about, it's splattered all over the weekend news. S&P has dropped one A from the USA's AAA. I must admit, I too didn't know what to think ...