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Follow the money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013
... inflation's number. Even the central banks' convinced themselves of this that they started selling gold the metal. You, I and Irene would have been burned to crisp if we insisted in buying what the CBs were selling back then. Back then gold, was just ...

2011 and 2012 Redux?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2013

First quarter (w)innings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2013
... remember the corrections - nay, buy opps - that happened on the way: The Fed was going to unwind QE3 sooner than you, I and Irene expected; The inconclusive Italian elections (it still is) and comeback bunga bunga boy Berlusconi; China's property curbs ...

So stupid it could actually make money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2013
... to throw away the sanctity of the most sacrosanct of the average people's store of wealth, the bank deposit. You, I and Irene have read about that plan - the tax depositors for bailout plan imposed on Cyprus. To repeat, Cypriots with of a,-100,000 and ...

Bernanke pours liquid over Roman burn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013
... laws, damaging the euro zone's efforts to resolve its three-year old debt crisis". As I explained yesterday, you and I and Irene have been here before - recall the' revote' in Greece and French President Hollande's non to austerite campaign. They're ...

Temper, temper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2013
... it. Brent oil closed at US$118.53 per barrel last Friday, up 7.4% since the start of 2013. Remember how worried you, I and Irene were when the price soared during the Jasmine Revolution of 2011? Brent oil is now a few dollars away from the US$126.46 ...

Hastings appoints executive director for North America

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013
Hastings Funds Management has appointed Irene Mavroyannis as executive director in the North America region, which includes the United States and Canada. Mavroyannis will be responsible for leading the company's operations as well as business development ...

Beans means Buffet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013
... find out whether Buffet bought beans because he's bullish or because he thinks that it would be the only thing you, I and Irene could afford in the future.

Serpentine fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2013
Almost two months in and thus far you, I and Irene have had a happy new year... will we also have a "gung hei fat choi"? Yes Virginia, those who go by the lunar calendar has gone around yesterday, 10 February, wishing everyone "gung hei fat choi' as ...

Today we wait

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2013