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Equity and commodity alignment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
"I will follow you Follow you wherever you may go..." -Ricky Nelson Why oh why does Wall Street continue to insist that rising commodity prices - particularly that of crude oil - is good for its health? Perhaps it's because today's Friday the 13th. ...

May day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
Rising inflation. Sagging earnings. Sliding oil price. They were the culprits! They sucker punched Wall Street down to its knees while we were sleeping. No Virginia, not again. Don't tell me that just days after the "no one can deny" good news brought ...

Budget bore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
"We are on track for surplus in 2012-13, on time, as promised..." Pardon moi, but this to me is the only thing with a hint of significance in honourable Wayne Swan's - Australia's deputy PM and Treasurer - budget speech last night. It was a ho-hum Budget ...

A-dollar one-point-seven-o

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
Destination: Highway one point seven zero. Yes Virginia, this is what the current euphoria on the Australian dollar has led to - the currency is now extrapolated to reach 1.70 against the US dollar by 2014. According to The Australian newspaper, not ...

Backpedals

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2011
Whoopsee, wrong call! Not mine but the financial markets. By now you've probably seen how equity markets and some commodities backtracked from "the global economy is falling" to "here comes the sun, and I say it's alright" (Beatles). And this happened ...

Silver bullet downs market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011
Looks like the commodity and equity markets put up a big 'SALE sign last night. Commodities of nearly all persuasions dropped with a thud and so did Wall Street along with other markets in North and Latin America and most of Europe. Do I have permission ...

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

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
There really must be something in that age-old adage, "sell in May then go away". It's still early days of course, but if the first two May trading days on Wall Street is any guide, investors might be packing up for the entire month. Nothing's really ...

He's just a man

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2011
Financial markets celebrated the death of the most wanted man in America - Osama bin Laden. And if you believe the insta-blogs on cyberspace, it's all because Osama's death (martyrdom to others) put a huge dint on terrorism - or something like that. ...

Up, down or sideways

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
1.00,1.03,1.05,1.08,1.10,1.20 - no these are not random numbers. These are the numbers marking the Australian dollar's recorded fresh - and fresher - after-float highs against its big brother, the US dollar. The last time I wrote about the value of ...