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I heart the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
I heart the RBA. Who wouldn't? OK, ok... most borrowers perhaps. But in the general scheme of things it's on top of the list on my Valentine's list. The minutes of the Reserve Bank of Australia's February Board meeting is set for outing today. The minutes ...

People powered

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 FEB 2011
Gone in 18 days! The New Year's fresh events risk that was Egypt has gone with the departure of the country's strongman. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak had been ultimately forced to abandon the throne his bum had been glued onto for 30 years by 18-days ...

Catching its second wind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2011
What's this? More good news out of America and yet Wall Street went nowhere overnight? The Dow closed just a little bit (0.1 per cent) lower. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq ended last night's session just a tad (0.1 per cent) higher. It was hilarious reading ...

Inflated inflation scare

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
That dreaded "I" word is making a comeback into market players' psyche. Inflation is lurking just around the corner - at least for the developed economies. In the emerging ones, they've been trying to shoo evil inflation away as if almost forever. China ...

Wall Street does an Abbott

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 FEB 2011

Bunga bunga

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2011
"There's a kind of hush (rush) all over the world tonight... So listen very carefully, closer now and you will see what I mean. It isn't a dream..." --Carpenters Just like Italy's Emperor (Silvio Berlusconi) was allegedly photographed with showgirls ...

Cycling up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 FEB 2011
It's good in so far as it's bad. For those like me who logged on over the weekend hoping to glean clarity on America's future, the latest non-farm payrolls report outing provided none. Yes, Virginia, both the bulls and the bears would be claiming, "I ...

USA is going A-OK

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 FEB 2011
"Until we see a sustained period of stronger job creation, we cannot consider the recovery to be truly established." These were the words spoken by Big Ben at the National Press Club in Washington last night. Oh yes, these very words came out of his ...

One voice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2011
ust as recent indicators point to a brightening outlook for the US economy, the haze appears to also be slowly dissipating in Europe. "Movin' on up, movin' on up. Movin' on up, movin on up." This tune by M People played in my head as I read Bloomberg's ...

Better and better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 FEB 2011
"It's getting better all the time Better Better Better It's getting better all the time Better Better Better. Getting so much better all the time." - Beatles Less than a week ago, I wrote on this space, "it's just a matter of a few sleeps till we get ...