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If not now, when?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012
After all is said and done, much was said but nothing was done. Risk-takers have every reason to feel disappointed for none of the central banks - Fed, ECB, BOE -- that met this week walked their talk (the BOE though didn't do much talking). There weren't ...

Lucky in so many ways

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2012
... market will do today. Will it react to fresh fears about Europe or fresh hopes for a QE? Yeah, yeah, yeah. We can muse, guess, assume, presume, deduce and speculate all we want, but what's the point in engaging in this activity? It's just one day's movement ...

The twain could not meet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2012
... Corporate earnings need an expanding economy to be strong. Fed intervention needs the opposite - a deteriorating one. I guess even the WSJ can be caught up in the moment, put two and two together and came up with three. Yes Virginia. According to Bloomberg ...

Liars' Club

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2012
... introducing a one-off "wealth tax", ending the payroll tax holiday and plans to impose an extra tax on company dividends. And guess what? The pro-austerity PM - the UK's David Cameron - who told the world that easing up on austerity would be "the wrong ...

IMF issues buy order

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012
Well, well, well. Don't look now folks for we may have just received the best indicator of the financial markets' direction over the next three months, at least. No Virginia, it's not yesterday's decision by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to sit ...

Three more days of guessing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2012
Up and down it goes, where it ends nobody knows. Wall Street was down again last night, after being up the previous day and down the day before. This sawtooth trading pattern hardly comes as a surprise given the great uncertainty over the outcome of ...

PIG now officially PIGS

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2012
... Spain's Fondo de Reestructuracion Ordenada Bancaria (FROB) rescue fund. This means it'll be a bailout not a credit line. And guess who'll win in the end? The one who holds the purse of course! And guess what happens when the one who holds the purse wins ...

Still a guessing game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2012
... much, not nothing. It seems logical, it seems rational and it's the consensus. Then again, consensus had been wrong before. Guess we'll just have to continue guessing until 2:30 PM today. Then it's back to the Greece guessing game.

That anxious wait

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2012
... can also be applied with regards to Grexit speculations - the tumour could be excise but the outcome would be the same. Guess we'll have to continue fidgeting until 17 June when Greece votes again. In the meantime, talks about another "Lehman moment" ...

Grexit and the games people play

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012
It is ironic that the country that brought the world the story of the "Sword of Damocles" is itself now that very sword dangling precariously above the heads of world financial markets. Any moment now. Events in Greece over the past few days have jacked ...